Schneier on Security

JULY 3, 2024

It’s a serious one : The vulnerability, which is a signal handler race condition in OpenSSH’s server (sshd), allows unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) as root on glibc-based Linux systems; that presents a significant security risk. This race condition affects sshd in its default configuration. […] This vulnerability, if exploited, could lead to full system compromise where an attacker can execute arbitrary code with the highest privileges, resulting in a complete syste

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Troy Hunt

JULY 5, 2024

It's a long one this week, in part due to the constant flood of new breaches and disclosures I discuss. I regularly have disclosure notices forwarded to me by followers who find themselves in new breaches, and it's always fascinating to hear how they're worded. You get a real sense of how much personal ownership a company is taking, how much blame they're putting back on the hackers and increasingly, how much they've been written by lawyers.

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Lohrman on Security

JUNE 30, 2024

I’m always looking for best practices and examples to share around government AI and cyber projects. Monty 2.0 is certainly praiseworthy and a GenAI project to watch and learn from.

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Government 193

Tech Republic Security

JULY 5, 2024

Travelling for work can open employees up to a new host of security threats, including insecure Wi-Fi networks, infected public charging ports and Bluetooth attacks.

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Penetration Testing

JULY 3, 2024

Recently, a critical local privilege escalation vulnerability has been identified in MSI Center, a popular system management application for Windows OS. Tracked as CVE-2024-37726, this vulnerability affects all versions of MSI Center up to... The post CVE-2024-37726: MSI Center Flaw Exposes Windows Systems to Privilege Escalation Attacks appeared first on Cybersecurity News.

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Cybersecurity 143

Schneier on Security

JULY 2, 2024

This article about an app that lets people remotely view bars to see if they’re crowded or not is filled with commentary—on both sides—about privacy and openness.

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Surveillance 235

The Hacker News

JULY 1, 2024

OpenSSH maintainers have released security updates to contain a critical security flaw that could result in unauthenticated remote code execution with root privileges in glibc-based Linux systems. The vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2024-6387.

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Tech Republic Security

JULY 3, 2024

The vulnerabilities have since been patched, but had quietly persisted since the CocoaPods migration in 2014.

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Penetration Testing

JULY 5, 2024

On June 27, 2024, Cloudflare’s popular 1.1.1.1 public DNS resolver service experienced disruptions, leaving a small percentage of users worldwide unable to access the service or facing significant latency issues. The culprit behind this... The post Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 DNS Service Disrupted by BGP Hijacking and Route Leak appeared first on Cybersecurity News.

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DNS Cybersecurity 128

Schneier on Security

JULY 1, 2024

A new paper , “Polynomial Time Cryptanalytic Extraction of Neural Network Models,” by Adi Shamir and others, uses ideas from differential cryptanalysis to extract the weights inside a neural network using specific queries and their results. This is much more theoretical than practical, but it’s a really interesting result. Abstract: Billions of dollars and countless GPU hours are currently spent on training Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) for a variety of tasks.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 6, 2024

Researchers claim to have uncovered what they claim is the biggest cache of stolen credentials ever found. The post Researchers Discover Cache of Billion Stolen Passwords appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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The Hacker News

JULY 3, 2024

Cloud communications provider Twilio has revealed that unidentified threat actors took advantage of an unauthenticated endpoint in Authy to identify data associated with Authy accounts, including users' cell phone numbers. The company said it took steps to secure the endpoint to no longer accept unauthenticated requests.

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Accountability 124

Tech Republic Security

JULY 3, 2024

Bitwarden vs KeePass: Who comes out on top? Dive into our 2024 analysis and make the best decision for your security needs!

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Password Management Passwords 153

Penetration Testing

JULY 1, 2024

The Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU) has detailed a severe security flaw, dubbed ‘regreSSHion,’ that leaves millions of Linux systems vulnerable to remote code execution. The vulnerability, identified as CVE-2024-6387, affects OpenSSH’s server (sshd)... The post CVE-2024-6387: Critical OpenSSH Unauthenticated RCE Flaw ‘regreSSHion’ Exposes Millions of Linux Systems appeared first on Cybersecurity News.

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Bleeping Computer

JULY 3, 2024

Twilio has confirmed that an unsecured API endpoint allowed threat actors to verify the phone numbers of millions of Authy multi-factor authentication users, potentially making them vulnerable to SMS phishing and SIM swapping attacks. [.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 5, 2024

As organizations look to improve their API security, two distinct approaches to API key verification have emerged — centralized and decentralized verification. The post Understanding API Key Verification appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Cybersecurity 124

Security Affairs

JULY 5, 2024

Researchers uncovered a new Golang-based botnet called Zergeca that can carry out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Researchers at the QiAnXin XLab team uncovered a new Golang-based botnet called Zergeca that can carry out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. On May, 2024, the researchers detected a suspicious ELF file at /usr/bin/geomi that was uploaded from Russia to VirusTotal.

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Tech Republic Security

JULY 1, 2024

Security analysts found that 52% of open-source projects are written in memory-unsafe languages like C and C++.

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The Hacker News

JULY 1, 2024

A China-nexus cyber espionage group named Velvet Ant has been observed exploiting a zero-day flaw in Cisco NX-OS Software used in its switches to deliver malware. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-20399 (CVSS score: 6.

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Bleeping Computer

JULY 5, 2024

Internet giant Cloudflare reports that its DNS resolver service, 1.1.1.1, was recently unreachable or degraded for some of its customers because of a combination of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) hijacking and a route leak. [.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 5, 2024

Spackle attack: Chinese company takes over widely used free web service—almost 400,000 websites at risk. The post ‘Polyfill’ Supply Chain Threat: 4x Worse Than We Thought appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Affairs

JULY 5, 2024

The New York Times revealed that OpenAI suffered a security breach in 2023, but the company says source code and customer data were not compromised. OpenAI suffered a security breach in 2023, the New York Times reported. The American newspaper revealed that the threat actors gained access to the internal discussions among researchers and other employees, but they did not access the source code of the company’s systems.

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Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

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Quick Heal Antivirus

JULY 4, 2024

In today’s technological landscape, ransomware is a well-known yet potent threat, posing significant challenges to individuals and businesses. The post Quick Heal’s New Update With Enahnced Ransomware Protection appeared first on Quick Heal Blog.

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The Hacker News

JULY 3, 2024

Unknown threat actors have been observed exploiting a now-patched security flaw in Microsoft MSHTML to deliver a surveillance tool called MerkSpy as part of a campaign primarily targeting users in Canada, India, Poland, and the U.S.

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Bleeping Computer

JULY 2, 2024

The Xbox gaming service is currently down due to a major outage, impacting customers worldwide and preventing them from signing into their accounts and playing games. [.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 4, 2024

IT managers and CSOs need to rethink their approach to cybersecurity and protect their organizations from this new breed of AI-powered attacks. The post Rethinking Cybersecurity in the Age of AI appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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When we talk about “compliance and security," most companies want to ensure that steps are being taken to protect what they value most – people, data, real or personal property, intellectual property, digital assets, or any other number of other things - and it’s more important than ever that safeguards are in place. Let’s step back and focus on the idea that no matter how complicated the compliance and security regime, it should be able to be distilled down to a checklist.

Security Affairs

JULY 5, 2024

Hackers compromised Ethereum ‘s mailing list provider and sent phishing messages to the members attempting to drain their crypto funds. Hackers compromised Ethereum’s mailing list provider and on the night of June 23, they sent an email to the 35,794 addresses. The email was sent from the address ‘updates@blog.ethereum.org’ and included a link to a malicious site running a crypto drainer. “This website had a crypto drainer running in the background, and if a user initiate

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 5, 2024

Millions of websites could be displaying security warnings in Google Chrome starting this November. The cause? A recent announcement by Google Chrome regarding its trust in certificates issued by a major certificate authority (CA), Entrust. Website security is paramount in today’s digital age. That little lock icon in your browser address bar signifies a secure connection, protected by an SSL/TLS certificate.

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The Hacker News

JULY 5, 2024

French cloud computing firm OVHcloud said it mitigated a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in April 2024 that reached a packet rate of 840 million packets per second (Mpps). This is just above the previous record of 809 million Mpps reported by Akamai as targeting a large European bank in June 2020.

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DDOS Banking 107

Bleeping Computer

JUNE 30, 2024

Fake IT support sites promote malicious PowerShell "fixes" for common Windows errors, like the 0x80070643 error, to infect devices with information-stealing malware. [.

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