eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 14, 2023

Here’s a roundup of the week’s major vulnerabilities that security teams should mitigate or patch. August 12 , 2023 Ford Auto’s TI Wi-Fi Vulnerability The Internet of Things (IoT) continues to expand and become a threat to connected businesses. Adobe also updated their Commerce and Dimension software.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 8, 2024

The new year brought few new vulnerabilities, and only Ivanti Endpoint Manager (EPM) and Kyber, the quantum resistant encryption algorithm, publicized new vulnerabilities or fixes. Speed remains critical to security, but more importantly, patching teams need to make progress with patch and vulnerability management. Versions 0.65

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Cisco+ Secure Connect Platform Cisco+ Secure Connect strives to provide a turnkey SASE solution for a variety of needs. Get the Free Cybersecurity Newsletter Strengthen your organization's IT security defenses by keeping up to date on the latest cybersecurity news, solutions, and best practices.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The platform, previously called Versa Secure Access or Versa Secure Access Fabric, connects to both cloud and local resources with ease. Get the Free Cybersecurity Newsletter Strengthen your organization's IT security defenses by keeping up to date on the latest cybersecurity news, solutions, and best practices.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 11, 2024

These devices exist outside of direct corporate management and provide a ransomware gang with unchecked platforms for encrypting data. Ransomware remains just one of many different threats and as security teams eliminate key vectors of attack, adversaries will shift tactics. How does remote encryption work?

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 8, 2023

With its Alphabet origins and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt as chairman, SandboxAQ landed a $500 million funding round earlier this year, the biggest cybersecurity round of 2023 thus far, with an A-list of investors that includes Schmidt, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, T. Also read: The U.S.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 30, 2024

Failure to enforce security regulations and implement appropriate encryption may result in accidental data exposure. Regular reviews, enhanced analytics, and incident response methods improve security. Collaborate with external cloud security specialists or managed service providers to enhance internal capabilities.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 22, 2024

Affected keys included some encryption keys and the GitHub commit signing key. To encrypt GitHub Actions , GitHub Codespaces , and Dependabot secrets, take the new public keys from the API. CVE-2023-6548 is a remote code execution vulnerability for an authenticated user, and CVE-2023-6549 is a denial-of-service vulnerability.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 12, 2024

Sample access restriction from SolarWinds’ access rights management dashboard Encrypt Data This practice entails using data encryption tools to keep sensitive data confidential and safe from illegal access or exploitation, even if the device is lost or stolen. Explore these real-life examples for additional insights.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

The 2023 vendor surveys arriving this quarter paint a picture of a cybersecurity landscape under attack, with priority issues affecting deployment, alert response, and exposed vulnerabilities. Sophos: Noted that 43% of all 2023 malware signature updates are for stealers, spyware, and keyloggers often used to steal credentials from devices.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 16, 2024

The security researchers at Oligo Security discovered CVE-2023-48022 , dubbed ShadowRay , which notes that Ray fails to apply authorization in the Jobs API. AI Experts Lack Security Expertise Anyscale assumes the environment is secure just as AI researchers also assume Ray is secure.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 18, 2024

Cloud storage provides businesses with key benefits, such as flexibility, agility, business continuity, and faster deployment, all of which contribute to overall organizational responsiveness and better security. They cited lower risk, enhanced security, and cost savings as they go through migration.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The problem: RansomHub, a ransomware-as-a-service group, targeted security vulnerabilities in Apache ActiveMQ ( CVE-2023-46604 ), Atlassian Confluence ( CVE-2023-22515 ), Citrix ADC ( CVE-2023-3519 ), and Fortinet devices ( CVE-2023-27997 ).

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Firmware Backups Firewall Risk 110

Security Boulevard

JULY 7, 2023

Zscaler's Zero Trust Exchange provides strong protection against sophisticated malware campaigns like TOITOIN, leveraging its zero trust model, advanced threat intelligence, cloud-native architecture, and granular access controls to ensure the security and integrity of customer environments.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Data Protection Users must employ encryption for data in transit and at rest. Users are required to ensure encryption of sensitive data within applications and during transmission. Providers handle the encryption of data within the application, with users typically overseeing access to their data.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Compliance madhav Tue, 09/19/2023 - 05:17 It is essential for any business that stores, processes, and transmits payment card information to comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). Consumers’ payment data is a compelling target for criminals who continue to circumvent IT security defenses.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The Pain of Double Extortion Ransomware divya Thu, 02/16/2023 - 06:10 Ransomware perpetrators are adopting more sophisticated attack techniques with much success. Ransomware attacks have become much more dangerous and have evolved beyond basic security defenses and business continuity techniques like next-gen antivirus and backups.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 7, 2024

A cloud security strategy is an established set of tools, rules, and procedures for safeguarding cloud data, apps, and infrastructure against security threats. It covers encryption, identity and access management, network segmentation, and intrusion detection systems. Ensure that data is encrypted both in transit and at rest.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 21, 2024

Keeper and Dashlane are top password managers prioritizing multi-layered encryption systems for secure password sharing. Keeper emphasizes extensive security measures and is a more affordable option, while Dashlane promotes a user-friendly interface and robust administrative tools perfect for streamlining logins. 5 Pricing: 3.6/5

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 18, 2024

Ransomware attacks , where hackers encrypt critical data and demand payment for decryption, have skyrocketed. In 2023 alone, the healthcare industry witnessed a staggering 130% increase in ransomware attacks. million records were breached, marking a bad year for data security. The largest breach of 2023 affected 11.27

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2024

In 2023, that number reached more than 29,000. You can only secure the traffic that goes on within your walls. VPNs encrypt traffic among devices using the Internet Key Exchange (IKE) protocol over a network-layer security service called Internet Protocol Security, or IPSec. FAQs Do VPNs Actually Improve Security?

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 8, 2023

To protect the protocol, best practices will add additional protocols to the process that encrypt the DNS communication and authenticate the results. Since these protocols do not cost money to implement, these will usually be the first steps taken to improve DNS security.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 30, 2024

Table of Contents Toggle Recent Healthcare Attacks & Breaches 5 Key Cybersecurity Management Lessons to Learn Bottom Line: Learn Healthcare’s Lessons Before Suffering Pain Recent Healthcare Attacks & Breaches Large breaches affected over 88 million individuals in the USA in 2023, a 60% increase from 2022. Ascension lost $2.66

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Despite initial suspicions, encrypted communications with specific keys linked the attacks to the previous ones, indicating an organized effort. sectors in 2023, which raised concerns about its main goal: a widespread disruption. Want to strengthen your organization’s digital defenses? Volt Typhoon struck again on several U.S.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Cloud security policies: It is essential to establish and enforce security policies, which include rules, access restrictions, and encryption settings, with configuration tools that align these configurations with corporate security standards. It enforces encryption policy. It improves security posture.

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The ransomware itself doesn’t handle data exfiltration but relies on these tools to steal data before encryption. RansomHub uses the Elliptic Curve Encryption algorithm Curve 25519 to lock files with a unique public/private key pair for each compromised individual.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Apps are protected from unauthorized access, data breaches, and other unwanted actions thanks to proactive defenses that prevent and mitigate vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and other security weaknesses. A secure API architecture serves as a strong foundation for all that, designed with security in mind.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 13, 2024

The problem: Cisco Talos researchers published a proof of concept for CVE-2023-49606 and Censys detected over 50,000 potentially vulnerable Tinyproxy hosts. The problem: As disclosed in the April 22nd vulnerability recap , PuTTY didn’t generate sufficiently random numbers for encryption keys. May 8, 2024 Citrix Hypervisor 8.2

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 13, 2024

The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2023-31315 and has a CVSS score of 7.5. The fix: AMD will patch some of its processors but not all; check out AMD’s security bulletin for a list of hardware that will receive a patch. This affects the safety of OpenSSH’s encryption and transport security features.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 8, 2024

The fix: CocoaPods fixed these flaws and reset all user sessions since October 2023. To improve security against side-channel attacks, securely use indirect branch predictor barrier (IBPB) and enhance the branch prediction unit (BPU) with more complicated tags, encryption, and randomization.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 13, 2024

The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2023-31315 and has a CVSS score of 7.5. The fix: AMD will patch some of its processors but not all; check out AMD’s security bulletin for a list of hardware that will receive a patch. This affects the safety of OpenSSH’s encryption and transport security features.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2024

The first vulnerability appears in Ivanti Standalone Security and is tracked as KB-CVE-2023-41724 , with a CVSS rating of 9.6. The Standalone Security vulnerability affects versions 9.17.0, The second vulnerability appears in Ivanti Neurons for IT Service Management and is tracked as CVE-2023-46808. and 9.19.0,

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Computers and Electronics Software Accountability Authentication 63

eSecurity Planet

APRIL 22, 2024

Widely-used PuTTY Utility Allows Recovery of Encryption Secret Keys Type of vulnerability: Deterministic cryptographic number generation. that didn’t generate sufficiently random numbers for encryption keys, which could allow an attacker to fully recover keys and impersonate users after obtaining roughly 60 signatures.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 20, 2024

Bitwarden has a page about its audits and compliance posture where it lists recent reports, including multiple ones for 2021, 2022, and 2023. Types of reports include web app and desktop app security assessments, SOC 2 and SOC 3, and network security assessments. Like Keeper, Bitwarden has a clean breach history.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 28, 2024

APIs offer seamless integration between cloud services, but if not properly secured, they become points of access for attackers. API security risks may cause weak authentication, input validation, encryption, permissions, error handling, and rate limit issues.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 27, 2024

The problem: CVE-2024-4985 is a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) that uses SAML single sign-on (SSO) with encrypted assertions. This poses serious security risks, particularly for organizations that handle sensitive data. However, for exploitation to occur, users must interact with it.

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