The Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Apple Security Engineering and Architecture (SEAR Tracked as CVE-2023-4863, the issue has been described as a case of heap buffer overflow that resides in the WebP image format that could result in arbitrary code execution or a crash.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 30, 2023

And despite advances, like sandboxing, browser isolation and secure gateways, the core architecture of web browsers has remained all-too vulnerable to malicious attacks. I visited with Uy Huynh , vice president of solutions engineering at Island.io , to discuss this. Guest expert: Uy Huynh, VP of solutions engineering, Island.io

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 16, 2019

An attacker could potentially pivot, Santamarta says, from the in-flight entertainment system to the CIS/MS to send commands to far more sensitive components that control the plane's safety-critical systems, including its engine, brakes, and sensors.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 24, 2023

Zero trust networking architecture (ZTNA) is a way of solving security challenges in a cloud-first world. Attendees will include cybersecurity professionals, policy makers, entrepreneurs and infrastructure engineers. Registration is free and open to the public.

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Daniel Miessler

DECEMBER 24, 2022

These encrypted fields remain secured with 256-bit AES encryption and can only be decrypted with a unique encryption key derived from each user’s master password using our Zero Knowledge architecture. I have friends on LastPass and other password manager company security teams, and I know them to be great engineers and great security teams.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Google has patched a critical Chrome vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-10487, reported by Apple Security Engineering and Architecture (SEAR) on October 23, 2024. The vulnerability is an Inappropriate implementation issue that resides in Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

But as we know, software engineering is a game of trade-offs, and serverless architectures come with their own challenges. Flexible pay-as-you-go payment plans offered by most cloud services help minimize costs, adding a financial incentive as the cherry on top of the developer’s cake.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 19, 2022

Today, there are two major types of common CMS platforms: •The older “traditional” or “monolithic” CMS platforms include a content repository (usually a multimedia database), the administrative console (where content is added and categorized), the presentation system (which makes nice-looking pages), and the search engine. Gierlinger.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Technical details One of the vulnerabilities was reported to Google by Apple Security Engineering and Architecture (SEAR), which reported the issue on October 23, 2024. Previous Chrome vulnerabilities reported by Apple turned out to be exploited by a commercial spyware vendor.

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Anton on Security

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

This blog series was written jointly with Amine Besson, Principal Cyber Engineer, Behemoth CyberDefence and one more anonymous collaborator. Operating Model 1: CTI Feeds SOC / Detection Engineering Some organizations have a clearly defined and separate CTI team, which supplies information to different teams, functions and recipients.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 4, 2024

At RSAC 2024 , I visited with Pranava Adduri , co-founder and CEO of Bedrock Security which has just rolled out its AI Reasoning (AIR) Engine to help solve this problem in a bold new way. This “commoditization” of data discovery, as Adduri puts it, slashes the cost of data discovery at scale.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

New frameworks, like SASE , CWPP and CSPM , seek to weave security more robustly into the highly dynamic, intensely complex architecture of modern business networks. Meanwhile, control system engineers needed a way to assess how well deployed software worked together in the field. An array of promising security trends is in motion.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 4, 2022

Privilege and other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Exchange Server, Excel, Office, PowerPoint, Malware Protection Engine, Internet Explorer and more (27 in all). Purdue network architecture. Network Architecture and Design. Network Architecture and Design. The Linux Kernel and Apache Tomcat.

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Adam Shostack

MARCH 5, 2020

.” I want to look at these as a specific way to express a threat model, which is threat modeling along the supply chain, talk about the proliferation of this different kind of model, and what it means for engineering. They can catalog the threats that impact a the high-level design. (If Other parts of the diversity just add work.

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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. ” continues the analysis.

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Cisco Security

APRIL 6, 2022

No one enjoys forking out gobs of money and spending sleepless implementation hours every few years in exchange for a shiny new box with largely the same architecture as the old one, save for maybe a slightly faster CPU. The big deal about the new Secure Firewall 3100 Series architecture is the emphasis on processing encrypted traffic.

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2021

Below the list of info stolen by the threat actor and available for sale: – Project Specification:[ Electrical, Power System, Architectural, Chief Engineering, Civil, Construction Mgnt, Environmental, Instrument & Control, Interface Mgnt, Machinery – Rotating, Mechanical – Vessels, Piping, Project Engineering, Safety Engineering, Telecommunications (..)

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2021

XCSSET, a Mac malware targeting Xcode developers, was now re-engineered and employed in a campaign aimed at Apple’s new M1 chips. Experts from Trend Micro have uncovered a Mac malware campaign targeting Xcode developers that employed a re-engineered version of the XCSSET malware to support Apple’s new M1 chips.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 27, 2021

This blog post describes how AT&T Alien Labs is leveraging binary diffing and code analysis to reduce reverse-engineering time and generate threat intelligence. In order to work, it needs a valid IDA license and, consequently, valid Hex-Rays licenses for each CPU architecture you may want to decompile. Porting Diaphora to Radare2.

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Joseph Steinberg

JULY 13, 2022

Additionally, keep in mind that while Lockdown Mode may make it more difficult for attackers to exploit social engineering in order to compromise devices, until Apple more strictly controls what apps it allows in its app store , potential government spying remains a major problem. Is that really true?

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CSO Magazine

MAY 11, 2022

The truth is that so much of the enterprise software and custom applications produced by DevOps teams and software engineering groups is not actually coded by their developers. Modern software today is modular.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 22, 2024

May 22, 2024, CyberNewsWire — AI SPERA, a leader in Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) solutions, announced today that its proprietary search engine, Criminal IP , is now available on the AWS Marketplace. Torrance,Calif.,

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 30, 2021

Web architecture from the past decade followed a trend where most web applications were server heavy, and enterprises’ data centers handled the bulk of the processing. The web browser was more of a graphical interface or a rendering engine. Let’s discuss how the SolarWinds hack relates to a regular website supply chain.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 13, 2023

Having launched and scaled our discovery engine in 2020 to help companies understand their SaaS stacks better, we have since launched an identity governance tool to manage access and now are launching the Zluri co-pilot to help enable faster workflows.” About Zluri.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 2, 2023

In the first year, candidates will be introduced to the subject to the core and themes such as data science, machine learning, computer architecture, operating systems, artificial intelligence and electrical sciences with engineering mechanics will be covered.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 20, 2021

So, Open XDR is defined the same as Gartner’s XDR definition except that it ends with “all existing security components, delivered via an open architecture”. However, there are major architectural differences that allow Open XDR to deliver on many of the promises of SIEMs where SIEMs have fallen short. That’s because it is.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 13, 2023

I spoke with Uy Huynh , vice president of solutions engineering at Island.io , about how generative AI has quickly become like BYOD and Shadow IT on steroids. The idea is to shrink the time analysts spend sifting through data, says Brad Liggett , director of global sales engineering.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The vulnerability was reported by Apple Security Engineering and Architecture (SEAR) and The Citizen Lab at The University of Toronto’s Munk School. . “Opening a malicious WebP image could lead to a heap buffer overflow in the content process. We are aware of this issue being exploited in other products in the wild.”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The issue was reported to the IT giant by Apple Security Engineering and Architecture (SEAR) and The Citizen Lab at The University of Torontoʼs Munk School on 2023-09-06. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-4863, is the fourth actively exploited zero-day fixed by Google in 2023. ” reads the announcement made by Google.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2024

This extortion campaign involved several security failures, including exposing environment variables, using long-lived credentials, and the lack of a least privilege architecture. This indicates that these threat actor groups are both skilled and knowledgeable in advanced cloud architectural processes and techniques.”

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 4, 2022

Legacy security architectures just don’t fit this massively complex, highly dynamic environment. These criminal rings swiftly reverse engineered Microsoft’s patch and then hustled to compromise as many unpatched Exchange Servers as they could reach. organizations and 60,000 German entities.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

On the other side of the equation, solution providers have been seeking new innovative ways to reach new customers in an increasingly competitive industry. CyberXchange helps cut through the noise, alleviating the ever-growing vendor fatigue, allowing organizations to build a more secure and compliant cybersecurity program.”

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 1, 2023

Mandal “In just four years, Nile has engineered an entirely new connectivity experience through a groundbreaking approach that prioritizes security and empowers IT to transform operations,” said Sumant Mandal, co-founder and managing partner at March Capital.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

SOAR uses the output of detection engines and investigations and recommends workflows or playbooks to build a response plan, saving time and effort. The MITRE Attack framework is an example of how various attack techniques, even if unique, can still be mapped to known techniques and procedures. LW: Anything else?

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 10, 2019

I recently had the chance to discuss this with John Loucaides, vice-president of engineering at Eclypsium, a Beaverton, OR-based security startup that is introducing technology to scan for firmware vulnerabilities. Loucaides One type of common firmware vulnerability isn’t so much a coding flaw as it is an architectural soft spot, if you will.

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Adam Shostack

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The Berryville Institute of Machine Learning (BIML) has released “ An Architectural Risk Analysis of Machine Learning Systems.” Is the plan a set of meetings in which senior engineers discuss the threats? As always, my goal is to look at published threat models to see what we can learn. Section B is a map of attacks.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Google has patched a critical Chrome vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-10487, reported by Apple Security Engineering and Architecture (SEAR) on October 23, 2024. The vulnerability is an Inappropriate implementation issue that resides in Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine.

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