Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
Windows Users Can Now Use Other Methods to Access Microsoft Products Microsoft has officially gone fully passwordless, allowing Windows users to replace their alphanumeric passwords with one of several substitute sign-in technologies to gain entry into a Microsoft product - a move received positively by industry insiders.
WIRED Threat Level
SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
iOS, Windows, and Chrome all have zero-day vulnerabilities that hackers are going after. Now that the fixes are here, you need to install them ASAP.
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Threatpost
SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
The security vulnerabilities bring the web behemoth up to 10 browser zero-days found so far this year.
Krebs on Security
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
TTEC , [ NASDAQ: TTEC ], a company used by some of the world’s largest brands to help manage customer support and sales online and over the phone, is dealing with disruptions from a network security incident resulting from a ransomware attack, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. While many companies have been laying off or furloughing workers in response to the Coronavirus pandemic, TTEC has been massively hiring.
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Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 16, 2021
But Does the 'Policy Statement' Warning Overstep the Intention of the Rule? The FTC warns makers of personal health records, mobile health apps, fitness devices and a variety of similar products and services that they will face stiff civil monetary penalties for failure to comply with the commission's 12-year-old - but never-yet enforced - Health Breach Notification Rule.
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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
SEPTEMBER 13, 2021
Authentication and access management increasingly perceived as core to Zero Trust Security. madhav. Tue, 09/14/2021 - 05:52. The changing global environment has brought many changes to all organizations. While many consider that remote access to corporate resources and data as the key disruption, security teams had to face many more challenges. The acceleration of cloud migration and the proliferation of containers, microservices and IoT devices have placed identity in the center of corporate se
Krebs on Security
SEPTEMBER 16, 2021
A jury in California today reached a guilty verdict in the trial of Matthew Gatrel , a St. Charles, Ill. man charged in 2018 with operating two online services that allowed paying customers to launch powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against Internet users and websites. Gatrel’s conviction comes roughly two weeks after his co-conspirator pleaded guilty to criminal charges related to running the services.
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
Many Files Crypto-Locked Before July 13 Unlockable via Free Bitdefender Decryptor Score one for the good guys in the fight against ransomware: Anyone who fell victim to REvil, aka Sodinokibi, crypto-locking malware before July 13 can now decrypt their files for free, thanks to a decryptor released by security firm Bitdefender.
eSecurity Planet
SEPTEMBER 16, 2021
An investigation by McAfee researchers into a case of a suspected malware infection uncovered a cyber attack that had been sitting in the victim organization’s network for years stealing data. The investigators said the advanced threat actors used a mixture of known and unique malware tools in the attack – which they dubbed Operation Harvest – to compromise the victim’s IT environment, exfiltrate the data and evade detection.
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Dark Reading
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
Having a gold copy of critical data offline is essential in every organization's disaster recovery or continuity plan. Follow the 3-2-1-1 rule to secure your data.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
Three former NSA employees entered into a deferred prosecution agreement that restricts their future activities and employment and requires the payment of a penalty. Three former NSA employees (Marc Baier, 49, Ryan Adams, 34, and Daniel Gericke, 40) entered into a deferred prosecution agreement that restricts their future activities and employment. The trio has worked as hackers-for-hire for the United Arab Emirates cybersecurity company DarkMatter between January 2016 and November 2019.
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 13, 2021
Citizen Lab Says iMessage Exploit Delivered NSO's Pegasus Spyware Apple patched a software vulnerability on Monday that researchers say was used to deliver spyware via its iMessage platform to the mobile phones of activists. But a few changes to iMessage could make it safer overall for individuals at high risk of surveillance, says an Apple security expert.
eSecurity Planet
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
Tape vendors have been promoting themselves as a solution to the ransomware problem because of their ability to provide air-gapped data backup, but trying to recover terabytes of data from a tape drive can be a little like, well, running into red tape. These claims are lacking in engineering rigor and are seemingly just marketing pitches, but it’s hard to find a major tape vendor that hasn’t pushed this angle.
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Threatpost
SEPTEMBER 13, 2021
How did Kaseya get a universal decryptor after a mind-bogglingly big ransomware attack? A REvil coder misclicked, generated & issued it, and “That’s how we sh*t ourselves.”.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
Security researchers spotted a new malware that uses Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to evade detection in attacks against Windows machines. Security researchers from Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs have discovered several malicious Linux binaries developed to target the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is a compatibility layer for running Linux binary executables (in ELF format) natively on Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server 2019.
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
Researchers Say OMIGOD Vulnerability Can Give Attackers Root Privileges The Mirai botnet is actively exploiting the known vulnerability CVE-2021-38647, which is part of a quarter of vulnerabilities dubbed OMIGOD, in Microsoft's Azure Linux Open Management Infrastructure framework, according to Kevin Beaumont, head of the security operations center for Arcadia Group.
eSecurity Planet
SEPTEMBER 16, 2021
OWASP security researchers have updated the organization’s list of the ten most dangerous vulnerabilities – and the list has a new number one threat for the first time since 2007. The last update was in November 2017, and the latest draft is available for peer review until the end of the year. The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is a nonprofit foundation and an open community dedicated to security awareness.
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DLA Piper Privacy Matters
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
By the end of the 2018, the Spanish Parliament belatedly completed the framework provided by EU’s GDPR approving a new Data Protection Act. Following a local tradition dated in 1992, the Spanish legislators deviated themselves from the mainstream position in the EU. The new Spanish law included, among other deviations, new digital rights unknown by the GDPR, a special period of retention of personal data in favor of public authorities after the data had to be deleted or corrected, a genera
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 12, 2021
A new banking trojan dubbed maxtrilha (due to its encryption key) has been discovered in the last few days and targeting customers of European and South American banks. The new maxtrilha trojan is being disseminated and targeting several banks around the world. Criminals are constantly creating variants of popular banking trojans, keeping in mind the same modus operandi but changing the malware internals and its capabilities making it a fully undetectable (FUD) weapon.
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
FBI, CISA, Coast Guard Release Joint Warning and Urge Customers to Patch CISA, the FBI and the U.S. Coast Guard Cyber Command warn users of Zoho Corp.'s single sign-on and password management tool to patch for a vulnerability that nation-state groups may look to exploit. Attackers could use the bug to compromise credentials and exfiltrate data from Active Directory.
Hunton Privacy
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
On September 13, 2021, the Federal Trade Commission published final revisions to five rules promulgated pursuant to the Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”), to clarify that the rules apply only to motor vehicle dealers. The final revisions were made to bring the rules in line with the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Entities other than motor vehicle dealers are still subject to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (“CFPB’s”) FCRA counterpart rules and the concurre
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Threatpost
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
With the help of malicious insiders, a fraudster was able to install malware and remotely divorce iPhones and other handsets from the carrier's U.S. network -- all the way from Pakistan.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
OMIGOD – Microsoft addressed four vulnerabilities in the Open Management Infrastructure (OMI) software agent that could expose Azure users to attacks. Recently released September 2021 Patch Tuesday security updates have addressed four severe vulnerabilities, collectively tracked as OMIGOD , in the Open Management Infrastructure (OMI) software agent that exposes Azure users to attack.
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
Critics Say Travis CI's Security Bulletin is Insufficient Travis CI, a Berlin-based continuous integration testing vendor, has patched a serious flaw that exposed signing keys, API keys and access credentials and more, potentially putting thousands of organizations at risk. Those using Travis CI should change their secrets immediately.
eSecurity Planet
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
Cybercriminals are targeting Linux-based servers running Microsoft’s Azure public cloud environment that are vulnerable to flaws after Microsoft didn’t automatically apply a patch on affected clients in its infrastructure. According to cybersecurity firm Recorded Future, the attacks began the night of Sept. 16 after a proof-of-concept exploit was published earlier in the day on GitHub.
Speaker: Aindra Misra, Senior Manager, Product Management (Data, ML, and Cloud Infrastructure) at BILL
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Schneier on Security
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
Citizen Lab released a report on a zero-click iMessage exploit that is used in NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware. Apple patched the vulnerability; everyone needs to update their OS immediately. News articles on the exploit.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
A high severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-3437 , in HP OMEN laptop and desktop gaming computers exposes millions of systems to DoS and privilege escalation attacks. Millions of HP OMEN laptop and desktop gaming computers are exposed to multiple attacks by a high severity vulnerability tracked as CVE-2021-3437 that was discovered by SentinelLabs researchers. “Potential security vulnerabilities have been identified in an OMEN Gaming Hub SDK package which may allow escalation of pri
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
Proposed Class Action Suit Filed After Breach Affecting 1.4 Million A proposed class action lawsuit filed this week against St. Joseph's/Candler Health System in the wake of a recent ransomware breach affecting 1.4 million individuals alleges that the Georgia-based healthcare entity was "reckless" and "negligent" in safeguarding patients' information.
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