Schneier on Security

AUGUST 30, 2019

Abstract: Modern CPU architectures offer strong isolation guarantees towards user applications in the form of enclaves. And there are no security mechanisms that can deal with malicious enclaves, because the designers couldn't imagine that they would be necessary. The results are predictable.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 16, 2019

The CIS/MS is responsible for applications like maintenance systems and the so-called electronic flight bag, a collection of navigation documents and manuals used by pilots. Boeing maintains that other security barriers in the 787's network architecture would make that progression impossible.

Software 252

Software Architecture Engineering Hacking 252

Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 13, 2020

One of the things we learned from the Snowden documents is that the NSA conducts “about” searches. We have knowingly and willingly built the architecture of a police state, just so companies can show us ads. That is, searches based on activities and not identifiers.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Today’s ENISA 5G Threat landscape complements the Coordinated Risk Assessment with a more technical and more detailed view on the 5G architecture, the assets and the cyber threats for those assets. Detailed threat assessments for the 5G infrastructure components. Understanding threat exposure. Next Steps.

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Architecture Risk Telecommunications Advertising 145

Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2024

million files, and 65,000 documents were classified by NCSC as data relevant to the Federal Administration. 278 Federal Administration’s files contained technical information, encompassing documentation on IT systems, software requirement documents, or architectural descriptions. ” continues the report.

Ransomware 142

Ransomware Data breaches Unstructured Data Architecture 142

eSecurity Planet

APRIL 7, 2023

DMZ network architecture DMZ Architecture There are two main layout options to choose from when developing a DMZ subnetwork: a single firewall layout and a dual firewall layout. Definition, Architecture & Benefits appeared first on eSecurityPlanet.

Architecture 86

Architecture Firewall Network Security Technology 86

Lenny Zeltser

JULY 22, 2020

This Linux distribution for malware analysis includes hundreds of new and classic tools for examining executables, documents, scripts, and other forms of malicious code. Revamped REMnux documentation provides an extensive, categorized listing of the installed malware analysis tools, and lists their authors, websites, and license details.

Architecture 145

Architecture Malware Software Technology 145

eSecurity Planet

MARCH 4, 2022

The NSA’s 58-page Network Infrastructure Security Guidance (PDF) is more of a catalog of network security best practices, based on principles of zero trust and segmentation , following up on brief January guidance (PDF) on segmentation that discussed the Purdue Enterprise Reference Architecture (image below).

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 19, 2022

Chances are strong that your corporate website uses a CMS, and perhaps you have a separate CMS for documents and other files shared by your employees, partners, and suppliers. Design your architecture in a way where the CMS back end (the behind-the-scenes content repository) is not directly coupled to the front end (the presentation system).

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 3, 2022

Digital content creation is flourishing with intellectual property, financial records, marketing plans and legal documents circulating within a deeply interconnected digital ecosystem. It’s documents, PDFs, CSV files, Excel files, images, lots of unstructured data; we track 150 different file types. Srinivasan.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The initial attack vector is a phishing email containing a link to a malicious application disguised as a link to a PDF document relating to a cryptocurrency topic such as “Hidden Risk Behind New Surge of Bitcoin Price”, “Altcoin Season 2.0-The The Hidden Gems to Watch” and “New Era for Stablecoins and DeFi, CeFi”.

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Malware Risk Architecture Cryptocurrency 130

Security Affairs

JULY 17, 2020

The Cyble research team analyzed the data leaked by the Nefilim ransomware operators consisting of various sensitive and corporate operational documents of Aero Technique Espace (ATE), a well-established French aircraft painting company that had been acquired by Air works. ” reads the post published by Cyble.

Business Services 144

Business Services Ransomware Mobile Telecommunications 144

Security Affairs

JANUARY 24, 2020

The attackers use a weaponized Microsoft Word document as a lure for the target, the phishing messages were sent from a Russian email address. ” This campaign, which the researchers call Fractured Statue, used six unique document lures sent from four unique Russian email addresses. . ” continues the analysis.

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Malware Government Advertising Phishing 144

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

The malware impersonates a Visual Studio update and was designed to support Intel and Arm architectures. Researchers from Bitdefender discovered a new macOS backdoor, dubbed RustDoor, which appears to be linked to ransomware operations Black Basta and Alphv/BlackCat. RustDoor is written in Rust language and supports multiple features.

Ransomware 142

Ransomware Architecture Malware Passwords 142

Security Affairs

AUGUST 17, 2020

Threat actors used a decoy document titled “Pyongyang e-mail lists – April 2017” and it contained the email addresses and phone numbers of individuals working at organizations such as the United Nations, UNICEF and embassies linked to North Korea. The KONNI malware also employed in at least two campaigns in 2017.

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Phishing Malware Advertising Architecture 142

Malwarebytes

JULY 29, 2021

On July 21, 2021, we identified a suspicious document named “????????.docx” We could not determine who might be behind this attack based on the techniques alone, but a decoy document displayed to victims may give some clues. The second template is embedded in Document.xml.rels and is loaded into the document.

Architecture 145

Architecture Social Engineering Cyber Attacks Engineering 145

Adam Shostack

MARCH 5, 2020

Amazon has released a set of documents, “ Updates to Device Security Requirements for Alexa Built-in Products.” More precisely, since I don’t have an Amazon developer account, I’m going to look at the blog post, and infer some stuff about the underlying documentation.).

IoT 176

IoT Engineering Software Architecture 176

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Researchers from Black Lotus Labs at Lumen Technologies, recently uncovered a multifunctional Go-based malware that was developed to target devices based on multiple architectures, including Windows and Linux. The Chaos malware includes capabilities previously documented in the original Kaiji Linux botnet. ” concludes the report.

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Malware DDOS Architecture Financial Services 131

Security Affairs

APRIL 27, 2020

In March 2016, the Verizon breach digest reported a number of cyber attacks including one against an unnamed water utility, described in the document as the Kemuri Water Company (KWC). The operator behind the water utility hired Verizon to assess its systems, during the investigation the experts discovered evidence of cyber attacks.

Energy and Utilities 145

Energy and Utilities Government Cyber Attacks Architecture 145

Penetration Testing

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) has released a new document, RFC 9620, aimed at drawing the attention of protocol and architecture developers to critical human rights issues. The document... The post RFC 9620: A Call for Human Rights in Internet Protocols appeared first on Cybersecurity News.

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Internet Internet Architecture Cybersecurity 73

Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2021

The documentation produced must contain the project definition, the reasons with the possible solutions and for each of them costs and benefits, the resources required, and the distribution time of the final product. Coding, documentation, and tests specification performed should be provided for each component or module under consideration.

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Software Data privacy Architecture Risk 140

Google Security

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Posted by Ard Biesheuvel, Google Open Source Security Team Linux kernel support for the 32-bit ARM architecture was contributed in the late 90s, when there was little corporate involvement in Linux development, and most contributors were students or hobbyists, tinkering with development boards, often without much in the way of documentation.

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Risk Architecture Wireless Software 136

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

“According to the documentation, to achieve this the attackers would have to reverse engineer the generation process of the “site-specific passphrase”, which is used to derive the encryption key for sensitive data. ” continues the analysis. persistent loader unpacks and loads the next stage of the main module.

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SecureList

MARCH 21, 2023

The archive, in turn, contained two files: A decoy document (we discovered PDF, XLSX and DOCX versions) A malicious LNK file with a double extension (e.g.,pdf.lnk) The archive, in turn, contained two files: A decoy document (we discovered PDF, XLSX and DOCX versions) A malicious LNK file with a double extension (e.g.,pdf.lnk)

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Encryption Architecture Malware Phishing 139

Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2021

The malware also allows attackers to capture screenshots and exfiltrate stolen documents to the attackers’ server. For example, a sample with the MD5 hash sum 914e49921c19fffd7443deee6ee161a4 contains two architectures: x86_64 and ARM64.” states the report published by Kaspersky.

Malware 142

Malware Cryptocurrency Architecture Engineering 142

SecureList

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Checking the OS architecture and the next shellcode architecture. During the memory injection process, performed using the function responsible for the memory command, the malware checks the first byte of the second stage shellcode to determine the shellcode architecture using a magic hex value. Malicious document.

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Encryption Architecture Malware Engineering 136

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

We noticed that the TTP of the group is almost the same leveraging a weaponized document with a fake certificate of request of an Indian public fund. The document presents itself as a request for a DSOP FUND (Defence Services Officers Provident Fund ). Figure 1: Piece of the malicious document employed in the Op.

Malware 145

Malware Architecture Advertising Encryption 145

SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Department of Defense released its DoD Zero Trust Strategy, which outlines an "enhanced cybersecurity framework built upon Zero Trust principles that must be adopted across the Department, enterprise-wide, as quickly as possible as described within this document.". The 37-page document was finalized Oct.

Architecture 91

Architecture Mobile Encryption Cybersecurity 91

SecureList

JULY 6, 2022

It can also emulate the interactions between multiple processors (on multiprocessor devices), each of which can have its own architecture and firmware. It supports x86, x86_64, ARM, ARM64, MIPS, and 8086 architectures and various executable file formats. Qiling is an advanced multi-platform framework for emulating executable files.

Firmware 133

Firmware IoT Architecture Manufacturing 133

eSecurity Planet

JUNE 22, 2022

A document security system reads scanned documents with Optical Character Recognition to identify personally identifiable information. An increasing push toward remote work, IoT devices, and multi-cloud architectures now have organizations scrambling to protect their most important assets.

Cybersecurity 132

Cybersecurity Artificial Intelligence Architecture Technology 132

The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The new guidance is actually spelled out in both ISO 27001 and ISO 27002 – companion documents that together provide the security framework to protect all elements of the IT operation.

Cyber threats 203

Cyber threats Software Risk CISO 203

CSO Magazine

MAY 9, 2023

DigiCert ONE is a cloud-native SaaS platform that secures and centrally manages users, devices, servers, documents, and software. DigiCert and Oracle also have plans to collaborate on further integration into the OCI ecosystem to help joint customers manage their digital trust initiatives in a unified architecture.

Architecture 90

Architecture Marketing Software 90

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 2, 2020

The activity of the cyber espionage group was first documented by ESET experts Matthieu Faou and Francis Labelle in a talk at the Virus Bulletin 2020 security conference. The nature of the targets suggests that the threat actor is also responsible for economic espionage operations. ” concludes the report.

Malware 145

Malware Advertising Government Phishing 145

Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2021

The seller published multiple ads in multiple hacking forums and also offered access to a sample of the stolen info, including blueprints and PII.

Engineering 145

Engineering Telecommunications Data breaches Wireless 145

eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Of course, developers cannot be held responsible for all vulnerabilities, but they usually have privileged accounts and even direct access to sensitive documents and pipes, which makes them increasingly attractive targets. The document lists concrete measures to reduce the risk: Generate architecture and design documents.

Software 138

Software Authentication VPN Architecture 138

SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The attacks allow manipulation of AI responses simply by adding malicious content to any documents the AI system might reference, potentially leading to widespread misinformation and compromised decision-making processes within the organization. Anyone who can add a document to the folder that Copilot indexes can do this.

Social Engineering 99

Social Engineering Risk Architecture Marketing 99

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

The experts pointed out that this marks the first documented instance of such an exploit. “This marks the first documented instance of such an exploit, to the best of our knowledge.” ” reads the analysis published by Aqua firm. The script is accessible for review here.

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