In your organization, employees’ digital identities, and more specifically their passwords, are the keys that grant access to your most valuable resources and data… and it’s estimated that over 8 million passwords are stolen every single day. All passwords are at risk, all of the time, and the burden of ensuring they are complex enough …
In my old article I have demonstrated an atypical approach one may take to browse through similarly-looking security artifacts while analyzing a gazillion of similarly looking URls in Excel. I love Excel and been using it for more than 2 decades. It is one of these ‘most important’ but often undervalued tools in our infosec …
By Doron Pinhas, Chief Technology Officer, 2022 clearly demonstrated that attacks on data represent the greatest cyber-threat organizations face. The attack pace not only continued, it accelerated. Notable data breaches took place at Microsoft, News Corp., the Red Cross, FlexBooker, Cash App, GiveSendGo, and several crypto firms. Many of these attacks took advantage of known …
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Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Ransomware Pennsylvania Nonprofit Says Patient Medical, Financial Data Breached in 2022 Attack Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • January 6, 2023 Image: Shutterstock Pennsylvania-based nonprofit Maternal and Family Health Services this week revealed a ransomware attack in April 2022 that compromised patient medical and financial data. See Also: Securing Healthcare …
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Governance & Risk Management , Video , Vulnerability Assessment & Penetration Testing (VA/PT) Yevgeny Dibrov on Why Figuring Out Which Vulnerabilities to Prioritize Is So Vexing Michael Novinson (MichaelNovinson) • January 6, 2023 Yevgeny Dibrov, co-founder and CEO, Armis (Image: Armis) Determining which asset vulnerabilities should be prioritized for remediation is one of …
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Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Hacking Group Returns With Updated Tools and Infection Chain Mihir Bagwe (MihirBagwe) • January 6, 2023 Image: Shutterstock Hacking group Blind Eagle returned from its hiatus and is conducting an ongoing campaign directed at Spanish-speaking targets in Colombia and Ecuador. See Also: OnDemand | Understanding Human Behavior: …
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Trend Micro has established CTOne, a new Trend Micro subsidiary focused on advancing 5G network security and beyond. The group’s intellectual capital and leadership come from Trend Micro’s culture of innovation and is the latest incubation project to launch as a standalone business. “Trend Micro has been at the forefront of network transformations for over …
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Multiple vulnerabilities could have let attackers remotely track and control police vehicles, ambulances, and consumer vehicles from various manufacturers, according to researcher Sam Curry’s latest report. The update follows a similar notice from November.Read more
Recent reports indicate that a dataset containing the email addresses of approximately 200 million Twitter users was posted to a popular hacking forum for free. It appears the dataset was created in 2021, after a threat actor exploited a Twitter API vulnerability which allowed users to input emails and phone numbers to confirm whether they …
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The leaked Twitter data is now circulating on several hacking forums, including prominent Russian-language ones. Personal data, including email addresses, of nearly 209 million Twitter users were scraped, stolen, and posted on an online hacking forum. As seen by Hackread.com, the database posted online contains 209,000,000 records, all belonging to Twitter users. The database comprises …
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Last year was filled with many ups and downs for tech companies across the globe. Despite the hardships, several businesses still raised high-dollar funding rounds. In Austin, the 10 largest funding round were spread amongst tech companies in different industries, including artificial intelligence, climate tech, e-commerce and much more. Some even hit tech unicorn status …
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With the ever-growing reliance on technology and expanding connectivity in the digital world, going paperless is increasingly possible for all kinds of businesses, bringing significant benefits. However, many offices are concerned about the potential security risks of digitizing their data. Learn more about the pros and cons of going paperless at the office, including the …
By Larry Goldman, Senior Manager of Product Marketing, To this point, many businesses have failed to look at application experience (AX) management holistically, as its own challenge with its own set of distinct––and interlocking––solutions. This oversight has been to their detriment. The fact is that every second of lag time on an online banking app …
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Several years ago, we covered how a machine-learning algorithm bested 20 human lawyers when analyzing risks in nondisclosure agreements. The AI tied the highest-scoring lawyer with 94 percent accuracy. At the time, we predicted that it probably wouldn’t go much further than that.Read more
By Geert van der Linden, EVP & Head of Global Cybersecurity Practice at You might feel like we live in an age of permacrisis. The past year has brought about rising geopolitical tensions, mass digitalization, more hybrid working, and a skilled labor shortage. Adding to these challenges is the new era of almost limitless connectivity, …
The Saint Gheorghe Recovery Hospital in Romania suffered a ransomware attack in December that is still impacting medical activity. The Saint Gheorghe Recovery Hospital in Botoşani, in northeastern Romania, was hit by a ransomware attack in December that is still impacting medical operations. The hospital is not able to report the services performed in December …
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Fetish Seems that about 1.5% of people have a squid fetish. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here. Tags: squid Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.Read more
News is breaking that the popular fast food chain Five Guys has disclosed a data breach impacting job applicants, and the company may be facing a lawsuit over the cybersecurity incident. On December 29th, Five Guys started notifying customers of the incident, which is the same date the company notified state authorities about the breach. …
Share this… The cybercriminal who stole more than 200 bitcoin (BTC) from Luke Dashjr, the creator of Bitcoin Core, carried out a series of transactions in order to conceal the ultimate destination of the stolen assets. This individual demonstrates a high level of caution and a significant amount of understanding about programming and Bitcoin based …
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Many medium and small businesses are known for neglecting their cybersecurity. This usually arises due to several reasons, including financial constraints, human resource problems, or fear. Mostly, however, many businesses are not focused on cybersecurity since they are under the impression that cyber threats only affect larger businesses. However, medium to small-sized businesses are also …
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By Allison Grande (January 6, 2023, 9:41 PM EST) — A California federal judge has axed a proposed class action accusing Assurance IQ and its software vendor of unlawfully recording website visitors’ keystrokes and electronic communications, although he gave the plaintiff another chance to amend his claims in a dispute that has been widely credited …
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S3 buckets (Amazon Simple Storage Service) are great. They have no structure, and where we can store data objects. Along with this, they… Continue reading on ASecuritySite: When Bob Met Alice » Read more
By Tyler Reguly, senior manager, security R&D at cybersecurity software and services provider The pandemic ushered in an unprecedented wave of online purchasing, as people around the world became far more comfortable with virtual shopping. In fact, the U.S. Census Bureau’s latest reports e-commerce expenditures rose from $571.2 billion in 2019 to $815.4 billion in 2020, …
Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Governance & Risk Management , Insider Threat ‘Shopping Experience’ Engineer at Retailer Accused of ‘Malicious Software Edits’ Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • January 6, 2023 Image: Three men prepare to execute a fax machine in this scene from the 1999 workplace comedy film “Office Space.” More signs truth …
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Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Ransomware Emergency Medical, Ambulance Providers Face Extra Security Threats, Experts Say Marianne Kolbasuk McGee (HealthInfoSec) • January 6, 2023 Image: MedStar Mobile Healthcare A municipal ambulance services provider that serves 15 cities in a Texas county has reported to federal regulators a ransomware breach potentially affecting 612,000 individuals, …
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Sounil Yu, CISO at JupiterOne, talks about imposter syndrome, communicating in business-relevant terms and pinpointing gaps in organizations’ security programs. Below is a transcribed version of the interview, which is part of a series of conversations by Decipher with CISOs across the security industry. Lindsey O’Donnell-Welch: What have been some of the biggest lessons learned …
Share this… Control Web Panel, which was formerly known as CentOS Web Panel and comes in both free and paid versions, is a web hosting control panel that is both open source and free to use. It was developed to allow for the quick and easy management of servers (both dedicated and virtual private servers) …
The cybersecurity industry has been talking about collaborative approaches forever. In fact, the cyber community has been using a collaborative approach for a long time on things like the identification of vulnerabilities. It’s how CVEs are identified, verified, enumerated, and cataloged. But that’s mostly rear-looking, not real-time, not a proactive defense. Read more
Richard Bird, Chief Security Officer, This year will be the year that many business and security leaders will wake up to truly understand the scope of their API security issues. For the past three years, organizations have prioritized flexibility and growth over security and navigating extremely challenging business conditions. They’ve aggregated large data sets and …
