Security Affairs

JULY 16, 2018

Cyber Defense Magazine July 2018 Edition has arrived. InfoSec Knowledge is Power. July 2018 Edition has arrived. InfoSec Knowledge is Power. GLOBAL 2018 Awards – OPEN. Our InfoSec awards are annually given out at the RSA Conference in the United States every year, Q1. Cyber Defense eMagazine.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 16, 2018

Cyber Defense Magazine August 2018 Edition has arrived. InfoSec Knowledge is Power. GLOBAL 2018 Awards – OPEN. Our InfoSec awards are annually given out at the RSA Conference in the United States every year, Q1. USA 2018 Awards – CLOSED. Congratulations to our InfoSec Awards 2018 Winners!

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 4, 2019

Funny how quickly it gets away from you, someone just posted on my 2018 retrospective blog post this week and asked why I didn't include my congressional testimony and if I'm honest, it took me a bit to think about why as well (it was in 2017). And then it was 2019. But we're here now so it's back to business as usual blog wise.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

agarwal_mohit) January 5, 2018. I think the URL is right but it seems inaccessible from other countries: [link] — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) January 9, 2018. Security /= George blocking — Vatsalya Goel (@vatsalyagoel) January 9, 2018. — Khas Mek (@KhasMek) January 10, 2018. FergusInLondon) January 10, 2018.

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 18, 2022

That is until the spigot was turned off with the 2018 indictment of Xanthe Lam and Allen Lam, wife and husband, who with others were collectively indicted in October 2018 for the theft of Genentech’s trade secrets. For many years they were successfully stealing Genentech’s secrets.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2019

Cyber Defense Magazine October 2018 Edition has arrived. InfoSec Knowledge is Power. INFOSEC AWARDS RESULTS ANNOUNCED MARCH 4, 2019, HERE. . INFOSEC AWARDS RESULTS ANNOUNCED MARCH 4, 2019, HERE. . Our InfoSec Awards are annually given out at the RSA Conference in the United States.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 21, 2021

Not just infosec headlines or tech headlines, but the headlines of major consumer media the likes my mum and dad would read. When the Ashley Madison data breach occurred in 2015, it made headline news around the world. I recall one in particular where a company was in talks to be acquired and one of their executives had an account.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 18, 2021

It’s difficult not to hum a tune whenever the phrase “accepted the risk” comes up if you’ve ever seen this excellent infosec industry parody. .” So, someone within First American accepted the risk, but that person neglected to ensure the higher-ups within the company also were comfortable with that risk.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 14, 2022

OpenCredo Venafi-Vault Wizard: Bringing InfoSec and Developers One Step Closer. The problem with that, of course, is this happens out of band, and InfoSec has no visibility, let alone the ability to put policy on that. Trent: We want to champion equal partnerships between development and InfoSec teams and that requires communication.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 10, 2019

Increasingly, I was writing about what I thought was a pretty fascinating segment of the infosec industry; password reuse across Gawker and Twitter resulting in a breach of the former sending Acai berry spam via the latter. The extra attention HIBP started getting in Jan never returned to 2018 levels, it just kept growing and growing.

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The Security Ledger

APRIL 29, 2019

The post Introducing Securepairs.org: Fighting Infosec FUD for the Right to Repair appeared first on. » Related Stories Testimony: There’s No Internet of Things Risk in Repair Podcast 127: Donnie, Talk to China and Other Lessons from 2018 How Digital Transformation is forcing GRC to evolve. Read the whole entry. »

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The Falcon's View

JANUARY 3, 2019

I don't know about you, but I am happy to see 2018 ended. Consider, if you will, that fundamentally we in infosec want people to make better decisions. That's right, it's infosec. 3) InfoSec Bifurcation: Functional vs. Strategic. Going forward, it's essential to bifurcate infosec between functional and strategic roles.

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Pentester Academy

MARCH 16, 2023

Lab Walkthrough — Drupalgeddon 2 [CVE-2018–7600] In our lab walkthrough series, we go through selected lab exercises on our INE Platform. Technical difficulty: Beginner Introduction In late March 2018, a critical vulnerability was uncovered in Drupal CMS. The target is running Drupal 7.57, 2018–02–21 version. x before 8.3.9,

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 12, 2018

Here's 2017 , here's 2018 and here's everything that's been recorded since forever. As you'll see in the news link above, the infosec space transcends that barrier and by virtue of the industry I'm in, has given me the opportunity to leverage exposure in a way I never could have otherwise.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

By some accounts, ransomware attacks increased nearly 150% in the past year, and insurance claims and costs of payments skyrocketed after having already jumped approximately 230% between 2018-19. Have insurers and infosec professionals coordinate closely on security risk metrics.

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Threatpost

AUGUST 10, 2018

Vulnerabilities in healthcare devices and hospital systems are leading to growing concerns in the infosec community about patient safety.

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Webroot

AUGUST 18, 2021

For many within cybersecurity, the SolarWinds attack by what are widely believed to be state-sponsored cybercriminals was the most significant supply chain attack since the Cleaner attack of 2018 and a worrying reminder of the damage made possible by the tactic. The firm counts among its clients giants like IBM, Hewlett Packard and Atlassian.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 14, 2021

For American organizations, only the GDPR wake-up call in 2018 compares. Most organizations did not take GDPR seriously until they had a few months to go before implementation in 2018, and then everyone panicked. The sensitive data of more than 40,000 patients, many of whom were children, had been compromised in 2018.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 28, 2019

Worldwide spending on information security products and services rose to $114 billion in 2018, up from $102 billion in 2017, an increase of 12.4 Through the course of this year, Gartner forecasts that the infosec market will climb 9 percent to $124 billion. To be sure, it’s not as if the good guys aren’t also innovating.

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Security Affairs

JULY 2, 2019

Malware is currently delivered from: 'hxxps://customermgmt.net/page/macrocosm' #cybersecurity #infosec — USCYBERCOM Malware Alert (@CNMF_VirusAlert) July 2, 2019. ” The CVE-2017-11774 vulnerability was used by Iran-linked threat actors since 2018, some attacks were attributed to the APT33 cyberepionage group.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2019

Early January, an interesting malware sample has been disclosed through the InfoSec community: a potential GreyEnergy implant still under investigation. These values match the campaign-id reported by the FE researchers back in 2018. Possible GreyEnergy sample. The entire malware architecture is modular and very difficult to neutralize.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 8, 2023

Booth babes and rampant sexism were more of a problem in infosec in the past. I shouldn't say I launched I along with a number of InfoSec women leaders launched the nonprofit and we have about 85 cyber and high tech leaders in the group and it is a networking and support group for senior women in cyber and technology. And it should.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Selling sunshine, beachy backdrops and tax-free living, the city’s FloridaWest Economic Development Alliance is also encouraging infosec pros to apply for local jobs, while also enticing companies to move their operations to the region. “We FloridaWest hopes infosec pros are wooed by not only the warm weather, but also the financial benefits.

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Cisco Security

APRIL 19, 2021

In November 2018, The New York Times reported that a total of 3.5 Clearly, infosec professionals are in hot demand. The cybersecurity industry is hiring. million cybersecurity jobs would be available but go unfilled by 2021. This employment gap increased in the year that followed. Even so, 3.12

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2020

The UK agency reported that APT groups target several vulnerabilities, including CVE-2019-11510 and CVE-2019-11539 in Pulse Secure VPN solutions, and CVE-2018-13379. Submit request here: [link] #cybersecurity #infosec #threatintel [link] — Bad Packets Report (@bad_packets) January 10, 2020.

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Cisco Security

APRIL 29, 2021

This resource illuminates how some of today’s leading infosec women experts got started in the cybersecurity industry and embraced the common goal of creating a more secure world for everyone. Founded in 2018, UWIC regularly holds several events a year to help women cultivate relationships in the cybersecurity industry.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

But infosec thought leaders say that blaming an intern ignores the true roots of the problem, including insufficient credentials policies and access management practices – as evidenced in part by the simplicity of the password itself: “solarwinds123”. Infosec experts similarly chided the company for a lack of strong credentials.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Read our joint advisory with the @FBI for technical details and recommended actions: [link] #InfoSec #InfoSecurity #Protect2020 pic.twitter.com/D2Clny9zUI — Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (@CISAgov). October 10, 2020. While these exploits have been observed recently, this activity is ongoing and still unfolding.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 7, 2023

Justice Department’s new Civil-Cyber Fraud Initiative announced its first settlement last month in a novel action that brought false claims allegations over infosec failures against, notably, a sole proprietor.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Incidentally, Lorenzo who wrote that Motherboard piece is a top-notch infosec journo I've worked with many times before and he reported accurately in that piece.) 86% were already in @haveibeenpwned [link] — Have I Been Pwned (@haveibeenpwned) October 24, 2018.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2019

As anticipated before, the “ longText ” variable encodes a JAR executable containing the infamous, multi-platform (Win/macOS), Adwind/JRat malware: a Remote Access Tool well known to the InfoSec community. Also, the configuration reveal the nickname field containing the string “ MANUEL1986 ”.

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McAfee

JULY 7, 2020

It has ability to connect and synchronize on-premises DLP and cloud DLP policies with single administrative portal and lots of other features like integration with third party tool for analytics which helps the InfoSec teams to safeguard the data and view the details of every endpoints.”

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The Security Ledger

JULY 15, 2021

In this encore edition of the podcast from 2018, we speak with Beau Woods of The Atlantic Council about the risks of embracing autonomous driving technology too quickly. In this encore edition of the podcast, we revisit a 2018 interview with Beau Woods of The Atlantic Council from episode 89. But is it safe? appeared first on The.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 11, 2019

The timestamp of the compressed files shows the attacker weaponized the archive at 22:56 of 13th December 2018, within the domain activation time-span. This particular string has been elected as common malware name by many researchers of the InfoSec community. Configuration of the SFX extractor. Files extracted by SFX executable.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2019

In the last month, a particular sample circulated within InfoSec community: it was written in GoLang and showed an interesting behavior, along with unusual binary patterns, for this reason, Cybaze-Yoroi ZLab decided to deepen the investigation. Conclusion.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 26, 2021

in terms of IT/OT modernization and compliance with the Water Infrastructure Act of 2018, Sanders offered advice to utilities that are seeking to make similar progress. Infosec professionals at the plant must worry about malicious actors potentially sabotaging OT systems using the connected IT systems as an initial vector of compromise.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Malwarebytes’ exposé of LazyScripter revealed that the group has operated since at least 2018, targeting International Air Transport Association (IATA) members, airlines and immigrants seeking employment in Canada. Scazon / CC BY 2.0 ).

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