The Last Watchdog
JANUARY 8, 2023
In golf there’s a popular saying: play the course, not your opponent. Related: How ‘CAASM’ closes gaps. In an enterprise, it’s the same rule. All areas of an organization need to be free to “play their own game.”. And when malware, ransomware, or other cyber threats get in the way, the focus shifts from forward progress to focused co-operation.
Dark Reading
JANUARY 12, 2023
Organizations must be vigilant about balancing performance gains with security, governance, and compliance as they expand their use of Kubernetes.
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Data Breach Today
JANUARY 12, 2023
Organizations Need to Know How Privacy Laws Affect Compliance Demands
Krebs on Security
JANUARY 9, 2023
Identity thieves have been exploiting a glaring security weakness in the website of Experian , one of the big three consumer credit reporting bureaus. Normally, Experian requires that those seeking a copy of their credit report successfully answer several multiple choice questions about their financial history. But until the end of 2022, Experian’s website allowed anyone to bypass these questions and go straight to the consumer’s report.
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Data Breach Today
JANUARY 12, 2023
Attack Is Disrupting International Mail Export Services The cyber incident at the Royal Mail that is impeding exports from the United Kingdom is reportedly a ransomware attack by the LockBit ransomware-as-a-service group. Britain's national postal service told customers Thursday not to post export items.
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WIRED Threat Level
JANUARY 10, 2023
More than 120 models of Siemens' S7-1500 PLCs contain a serious vulnerability—and no fix is on the way.
Krebs on Security
JANUARY 10, 2023
Microsoft today released updates to fix nearly 100 security flaws in its Windows operating systems and other software. Highlights from the first Patch Tuesday of 2023 include a zero-day vulnerability in Windows, printer software flaws reported by the U.S. National Security Agency , and a critical Microsoft SharePoint Server bug that allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to make an anonymous connection.
Data Breach Today
JANUARY 13, 2023
Bug Exploited Symbolic Links to Find a File Path to Sensitive Data A high-severity vulnerability patched by Google Chrome a few months ago allowed hackers to steal sensitive files such as crypto wallets. Hackers increasingly are targeting individuals and organizations that hold cryptocurrencies, writes Imperva security researcher Ron Masas, who discovered the flaw.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 13, 2023
The cyberattack on Royal Mail, Britain’s postal service, is a ransomware attack that was linked to the LockBit ransomware operation. Royal Mail, the British multinational postal service and courier company, this week announced that a “cyber incident” has a severe impact on its operation. The incident only impacted Royal Mail’s international export services, the company said it is temporarily unable to despatch items to overseas destinations.
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The Last Watchdog
JANUARY 9, 2023
As the world becomes more digital and connected, it is no surprise that data privacy and security is a growing concern for small to medium sized businesses — SMBs. Related: GDPR sets new course for data privacy. Large corporations tend to have the resources to deal with compliance issues. However, SMBs have can struggle with the expense and execution of complying with data security laws in many countries.
WIRED Threat Level
JANUARY 11, 2023
SweepWizard, an app that law enforcement used to coordinate raids, left sensitive information about hundreds of police operations publicly accessible.
Data Breach Today
JANUARY 9, 2023
Check Point Spotted Hacking Forum Posters Probing AI Tool's Malware Capabilities Low-level hackers are probing the capacity of ChatGPT to generate scripts that could be used toward criminal ends, such as for stealing files or malicious encryption. One poster on a hacking forum described the process as writing pseudo-code. More sophisticated cases are likely a matter of time.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 12, 2023
Threat actors are actively exploiting a recently patched critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Control Web Panel (CWP). Threat actors are actively exploiting a recently patched critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-44877 (CVSS score: 9.8), in Control Web Panel (CWP). Ongoing mass exploitation of CVE-2022-44877 (Centos Web Panel 7 Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution).
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The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.
Dark Reading
JANUARY 9, 2023
The AI-based chatbot is allowing bad actors with absolutely no coding experience to develop malware.
WIRED Threat Level
JANUARY 13, 2023
Police in the Indian state of Telangana have found a novel way to help people avoid getting swindled online: grassroots education.
Data Breach Today
JANUARY 12, 2023
Reports 'No Evidence' Twitter Flaw Exploited to Amass Latest Leaked Data on Users Twitter says a massive collection of purported user data being sold and then leaked via cybercrime markets was not amassed by exploiting a vulnerability in its systems but is instead "likely a collection of data already publicly available online through different sources.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 12, 2023
Cisco warns of a critical flaw in small business RV016, RV042, RV042G, and RV082 routers, which have reached end of life (EoL). Cisco is warning of a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-20025 (CVSS score of 9.0), that impacts small business RV016, RV042, RV042G, and RV082 routers. The IT giant announced that these devices will receive no security updates to address the bug because they have reached end of life (EoL).
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Schneier on Security
JANUARY 9, 2023
The two people who shut down four Washington power stations in December were arrested. This is the interesting part: Investigators identified Greenwood and Crahan almost immediately after the attacks took place by using cell phone data that allegedly showed both men in the vicinity of all four substations, according to court documents. Nowadays, it seems like an obvious thing to do—although the search is probably unconstitutional.
Dark Reading
JANUARY 13, 2023
Rhadamanthys spreads through Google Ads that redirect to bogus download sites for popular workforce software — as well as through more typical malicious emails.
Data Breach Today
JANUARY 13, 2023
Massachusetts Citizens Excluded From Feds' Case Against Shields Health Care Group Shields Health Care Group, a Massachusetts-based medical imaging services provider, is facing two class action lawsuits filed this week - a consolidated federal case and a similar, separate case filed in state court - both in the wake of the same 2022 data breach affecting 2 million individuals.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 12, 2023
Twitter said that its investigation revealed that users’ data offered for sale online was not obtained from its systems. Twitter provided an update on its investigation launched after data of 200 Million users were offered for sale online. The company has found “no evidence” that the data were obtained by hacking into its systems. Below are the key findings that emerged from the investigation: 5.4 million user accounts reported in November were the same exposed in August 2022
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Schneier on Security
JANUARY 10, 2023
I don’t know how much of a thing this will end up being, but we are seeing ChatGPT-written malware in the wild. …within a few weeks of ChatGPT going live, participants in cybercrime forums—some with little or no coding experience—were using it to write software and emails that could be used for espionage, ransomware, malicious spam, and other malicious tasks. “It’s still too early to decide whether or not ChatGPT capabilities will become the new favorite tool for
IT Governance
JANUARY 9, 2023
Welcome to our review of security incidents for 2022, in which we take a closer look at the information gathered in our monthly lists of data breaches and cyber attacks. Here, you’ll find an overview of the cyber security landscape in 2022, including the total number of publicly disclosed security incidents, the number of compromised records and the sectors most susceptible to data breaches.
Data Breach Today
JANUARY 11, 2023
Subcontractor Server Hacked in Both Incidents Compromising Data of Millions Personal information for nearly 3.2 million Aflac cancer insurance and almost 760,000 Zurich Insurance auto insurance policy holders in Japan has been leaked on the dark web following hacks on a third-party contractor.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 12, 2023
Security loopholes on social marketplace website trustanduse.com exposed data of around 439,000 users including many businesses for at least six months. Disclosing personal data on platforms providing digital services is always risky. The Cybernews research team identified a publicly accessible database storing up to 855GB of sensitive user and business data that belongs to social marketplace trustanduse.com.
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KnowBe4
JANUARY 10, 2023
The recent hack (at least 7 th ) of the LastPass password manager has lots of people wondering if they should use a password manager.
eSecurity Planet
JANUARY 11, 2023
Microsoft’s first Patch Tuesday of 2023 addresses 98 vulnerabilities, more than twice as many as last month – including one zero-day flaw that’s being actively exploited, as well as 11 critical flaws. The zero-day, CVE-2023-21674 , is a Windows Advanced Local Procedure Call (ALPC) elevation of privilege vulnerability with a CVSS score of 8.8.
Data Breach Today
JANUARY 13, 2023
Agency Says the Company's Policies Violated National Data Protection Law TikTok must pay a fine of 5 million euros to the French government after the country's data protection agency said the short-form video app violated national privacy law restricting the monitoring of web browser activity. TikTok is at the center of a number of privacy controversies worldwide.
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