The Spanish National Police successfully arrested a SIM swapping gang known as the “Black Panthers”, making 55 arrests in Barcelona. Their operation included committing bank scams through SIM swapping attacks and other methods such as social engineering techniques, and voice phishing (aka vishing, phishing, and call forwarding. The group managed to accumulate a total amount of …
AppOmni has partnered with Veeva Systems to expand SaaS coverage and provide enhanced security for Veeva Vault and Veeva CRM. The new offering enables life sciences customers to access AppOmni’s configuration management and threat detection functionality. With AppOmni’s Veeva integration, joint customers can operationalize best practices to protect sensitive data while ensuring compliance with regulatory …
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Aviatrix has joined forces with Equinix to deliver Aviatrix Edge software across 25+ of Equinix’s global International Business Exchange data centers. The combined solution, which leverages Equinix’s Network Edge and Equinix Fabric, delivers the highest performance encrypted connection to the cloud and provides the multicloud visibility and control enterprises require. “We are all in on …
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Share this… According to information obtained from sources within the Secret Service, computer hackers with links to the Chinese government stole at least $20 million in the United States by unlawfully accessing financial assistance funding intended for the COVID-19 outbreak. According to NBC, police sources and cybersecurity specialists, it is a gang of hackers known …
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In a recent analysis of the public and Internet-facing assets of 471 of the Fortune 500 companies, Cyberpion uncovered more than 148,000 critical vulnerabilities (exploits that are publicly available and actively targeted), with an average of 476 per company. Fully 98 percent of Fortune 500 companies have critically vulnerable internal assets, 95 percent have expired …
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The software industry is making headway against a group of pernicious vulnerabilities that are responsible for the vast majority of critical, remotely exploitable, and in-the-wild attacks, software-security experts said this week. The class of vulnerabilities — so-called memory-safety issues — include buffer overflows and use-after-free errors and have accounted for the majority of application security …
Share this… Customers have been alerted by Sophos that many vulnerabilities, including ones that may lead to arbitrary code execution, have been patched in Sophos Firewall version 19.5. Some of these security flaws were uncovered in-house by Sophos, while others were brought to the attention of the business by third-party researchers who participated in the …
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Rezonate emerged from stealth with $8.7 million in financing for its disruptive cloud identity protection platform that prevents access risk and stops attackers’ actions to breach cloud infrastructure, where modern organizations’ critical data resides. Backing this new approach are State of Mind Ventures and Flybridge, with participation from toDay Ventures, Merlin Ventures seed fund, renowned …
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1Password Shell Plugins brings the security and ease of use of biometrics to every tool in your terminal. I love Touch ID. When I use it to log in to a site or authorize a purchase, authentication just kind of happens. It doesn’t feel futuristic anymore, but it does feel like the present. It’s the …
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Hey there, I hope you’ve been doing well! 🧙♂️ Announcing: Staff Security Engineer How do you get to Staff level in security? It can be hard to know, as there’s not much guidance out there. Where is the staffeng.com for security? I’m thrilled to announce that my bud Rami McCarthy went out and got stories …
… the sequence of return addresses all the way to the start of the program (highlighted in yellow). This is what is commonly known as “unwinding or walking the stack,” and it is what the eBPF helper functions in the Linux Kernel provide for you. Most profilers that use eBPF use these helper functions. We …
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This NAVEX blog explores the rights and wrongs of gift-giving during the holiday season and how companies should tackle bribery and corruption via policies.Read more
Network usage fees, the idea that certain types of companies should pay internet service providers (ISPs) for the ability to deliver their content to consumers, both hurts consumers and breaks the status quo that has facilitated the rapid spread of the global internet. ISPs claim these fees are necessary because the cost for delivering internet …
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Share this… Rackspace, a provider of cloud computing services, has admitted that it was the victim of a ransomware incident, which resulted in the business being forced to shut down its Hosted Exchange environment. Since Friday, December 2, the hosted Microsoft Exchange service provided by Rackspace has been experiencing a variety of issues. The affected …
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Banking as a Service (BaaS) is revolutionising the finance sector. BaaS enables non-financial companies to provide customers with financial products and services such as personal loans, credit cards and digital savings accounts. It leverages the expertise and experience of trusted banks, such as Standard Chartered, so they can offer a wider range of services to …
Black Hat , Endpoint Security , Events Collective DDoS Defense, Rethinking Internet Defense, Zero-Day Harvesting and More Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • December 6, 2022 Winter in London features throngs of holiday shoppers along Oxford Street, ice-skating at Hyde Park Winter Wonderland and the return of Black Hat Europe. The venerable cybersecurity event …
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Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Incident & Breach Response , Ransomware Companies Tells US SEC That the Incident Will Affect Revenue Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • December 6, 2022 Image: Shutterstock Hosted services company Rackspace says ransomware is the cause of ongoing outages to its hosted Exchange environment. See Also: Live Webinar | How …
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Lawsuits claiming that online services aid terrorist organizations just by hosting their content or having users who espouse the organizations’ views potentially could censor a vast amount of protected expression online, EFF and a coalition of other civil society groups argued in a brief filed this week. In Twitter v. Taamneh, the U.S. Court of …
Application Security , Next-Generation Technologies & Secure Development , Video Aqua’s Dror Davidoff Shares How Open-Source Repositories Create Risk for Cloud Apps Michael Novinson (MichaelNovinson) • December 6, 2022 Dror Davidoff, co-founder and CEO, Aqua Security (Photo: Aqua Security) Software has increasingly relied on components developed by third parties or from open-source libraries, …
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Commvault has appointed Verizon veteran Shane Sanders to its Board of Directors. Sanders will also serve on the Audit Committee. For more than 30 years, Sanders has driven transformative business initiatives and counseled executives and directors on matters including shareholder value creation, target setting, capital allocation, and enterprise risk management and compliance. Most recently as …
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One of the most important components of data privacy and security is being compliant with the regulations that call for the protection of information. Regulators want to see transparency and controllability within organizations, because that is what makes them trustworthy from a data privacy and security standpoint. Ideally, organizations will deploy systems that provide compelling evidence …
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A software bill of materials (SBOM) is an important tool enterprise defenders can use to track the impact of software security bugs, manage sane patch management, and protect the integrity of the software supply chain as a whole. Scores of industry leaders say so. The Office of the President of the United States says so. …
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By Lauren Berg (December 6, 2022, 11:05 PM EST) — Apple’s AirTag has become the “weapon of choice” of stalkers to track their victims, but that hasn’t stopped the tech company from touting the product as “stalker proof” and ignoring the concerns of people at risk of abuse, according to a proposed class action filed …
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Risk management and mitigation is a high priority for CEOs and other senior executives worldwide — including CIOs and cybersecurity executives. The fact is, it’s impossible to separate risk from technology implementations and the potential cybersecurity vulnerabilities they present. One of the biggest challenges of risk management, as it relates to IT, is the emergence of a …
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Merger and acquisition (M&A) activity hit a record high in 2021 of more than $5 trillion in global volume. While the market has certainly slowed this year, it remains on par with pre-pandemic levels — quite a feat at a time of business uncertainty and inflation. But when it comes to corporate deal-making, risk lurks around every corner. The …
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Merger and acquisition (M&A) activity hit a record high in 2021 of more than $5 trillion in global volume. While the market has certainly slowed this year, it remains on par with pre-pandemic levels — quite a feat at a time of business uncertainty and inflation. But when it comes to corporate deal-making, risk lurks around every corner. The …
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Release details for Respawn Entertainment’s upcoming Star Wars Jedi: Survivor briefly appeared on Steam this week before the company removed them. The game will launch early next year, and the system requirements suggest demanding graphics.Read more
Cybersecurity threats and their resulting breaches are top of mind for CIOs today. Managing such risks, however, is just one aspect of the entire IT risk management landscape that CIOs must address. Equally important is reliability risk – the risks inherent in IT’s essential fragility. Issues might occur at anytime, anywhere across the complex hybrid …
Updated Rackspace has admitted a ransomware infection was to blame for the days-long email outage that disrupted services for customers. The security snafu took down some of Rackspace’s hosted Microsoft Exchange services on Friday afternoon. In its most recent update, posted at 0826 Eastern Time on Tuesday, Rackspace said it has now “determined this suspicious activity …
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Cybersecurity breaches can result in millions of dollars in losses for global enterprises and they can even represent an existential threat for smaller companies. For boards of directors not to get seriously involved in protecting the information assets of their organizations is not just risky — it’s negligent. Boards need to be on top of …
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