CSO Magazine

JUNE 24, 2022

Social engineering is involved in the vast majority of cyberattacks, but a new report from Proofpoint has revealed five common social engineering assumptions that are not only wrong but are repeatedly subverted by malicious actors in their attacks.

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CSO Magazine

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Password management company LastPass, which was hit by two data breaches last year , has revealed that data exfiltrated during the first intrusion, discovered in August, was used to target the personal home computer of one of its devops engineers and launch a second successful cyberatttack, detected in November.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 29, 2022

Shodan is a search engine for everything on the internet — web cams, water treatment facilities, yachts, medical devices, traffic lights, wind turbines, license plate readers, smart TVs, refrigerators, anything and everything you could possibly imagine that's plugged into the internet (and often shouldn't be).

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 19, 2022

The words “chaos” and “engineering” aren’t usually found together. After all, good engineers keep chaos at bay. Yet lately software developers are deploying what they loosely call “chaos” in careful amounts to strengthen their computer systems by revealing hidden flaws.

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CSO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

For this exploit, an attacker crafts a malicious ActiveX control to be used by a Microsoft Office document that hosts the browser rendering engine. Get the latest from CSO by signing up for our newsletters. ] Keep up with the best new Windows 10 security features. | To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

AUGUST 31, 2021

What is a security engineer? A security engineer is a cybersecurity professional who helps develop and implement strategies and systems to protect their organization's infrastructure from cyberattacks.

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CSO Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Whether it’s advanced phishing techniques, credential stuffing, or even credentials compromised through social engineering or breaches of a third-party service, credentials are easily the most vulnerable point in defending corporate systems. Get the latest from CSO by signing up for our newsletters. ]

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2021

CSO's security recruiter directory is your one-stop shop. Looking for a qualified candidate or new job?

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The Security Ledger

MAY 16, 2024

In this Spotlight Podcast, host Paul Roberts talks with Chris Walcutt, the CSO of DirectDefense about the rising cyber threats facing operational technology (OT) and how organizations that manage OT - including critical infrastructure owners can best manage increased cyber risks to OT environments. Read the whole entry. »

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

million people was exposed in a data breach lasts year, prompting AppOmni CSO Cory Michal to say that data collection companies like DISA and National Public Data need more oversight, regulations, and penalties. The post DISA Breach Highlights Need for Stronger Oversight: AppOmni CSO appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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CSO Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Engineering workstation compromises were the initial attack vector in 35% of all operational technology (OT) and industrial control system breaches in companies surveyed globally this year, doubling from the year earlier, according to research conducted by the SANS Institute and sponsored by Nozomi Networks.

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CSO Magazine

JUNE 8, 2023

Researchers warn of a social engineering campaign by the North Korean APT group known as Kimsuky that attempts to steal email credentials and plant malware. Operating since at least 2012, the group often employs targeted phishing and social engineering tactics to gather intelligence and access sensitive information."

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CSO Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2022

[Editor's note: This article originally appeared on the CSO Germany website on July 29.] Claire Tills, senior research engineer at Tenable, describes the methods of the hacking group Lapsus$ as bold, illogical and poorly thought out. They stole data and sometimes used ransomware to extort their victims.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 24, 2023

"Basically, every organization that uses this tool is at risk of losing their AI models, having an internal server compromised, and having their AWS account compromised," Dan McInerney, a senior security engineer with cybersecurity startup Protect AI, told CSO. It's pretty brutal." To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 21, 2022

Sign up for CSO newsletters. ]. 2012: Court Ventures gets social-engineered. Sometimes all it takes is some brazen misrepresentation and social engineering skills. Hopefully you'll come away with some ideas on how not to suffer a disaster of your own.

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CSO Magazine

AUGUST 16, 2022

One way to get malicious code running on PLCs is to first compromise a workstation that engineers use to manage and deploy programs on them, but this can be a two-way street: A hijacked PLC can also be used to compromise engineering workstations, and this opens the door to powerful lateral movement attacks.

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CSO Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Security engineering teams, on the other hand, are builders. Security engineering teams are typically made up of software and infrastructure engineers, architects, and product managers. As security engineering teams continue to grow in prominence, CISOs need to be intentional with their structure and development.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 28, 2022

Blame it on pandemic fatigue, remote work or just too much information, but employees appear to be lowering their guard when it comes to detecting social engineering tricks. Attackers were more successful with their social engineering schemes last year than they were a year earlier, according to Proofpoint.

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 13, 2022

On January 5, 2022, the Department of Justice (DoJ) announced the FBI’s arrest of Italian citizen Filippo Bernardini at JFK International Airport in New York for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 5, 2022

Fun fact: 80% of these breaches occur at the endpoint , often via phishing or social engineering. About the essayist: Den Jones, CSO at Banyan Security , which supplies s imple, least-privilege, multi-cloud application access technologies. So as investments go, checking device posture as part of your zero trust program is a huge win.

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CSO Magazine

MAY 30, 2023

SaaS-based customer identity and access management ( CIAM ) provider Frontegg has launched entitlements engine, an authorization management capability aimed at helping app developers and revenue teams streamline access authorization. With our CALC-powered Entitlements Engine, we provide all of this functionality and more in a single API.”

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CSO Magazine

JUNE 14, 2021

Deeply interwoven third-party vendor relationships have fundamentally changed business. They’ve allowed organizations to establish complex supply chains and sophisticated digital capabilities. Yet, all the gain isn’t without a good deal of pain. While these frameworks transform commerce, they also complicate cybersecurity.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 16, 2022

They bring great opportunities and advantages to engineering, but introduce an equal amount of opportunities for adversaries, which are targeting CI/CD as an efficient way to access the crown jewels of every organization – their production environment,” said Daniel Krivelevich, Co-Founder and CTO of Cider Security. Press Contact.

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CSO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Peter Kisang Kim admitted to stealing Broadcom data related to its Trident family of network switching and cloud networking chipsets, while working for a Chinese startup.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 10, 2021

Upon receiving the report, GitHub Security and Engineering immediately began investigating to understand the root cause, impact, and prevalence of this issue on GitHub.com. GitHub CSO Mike Hanley takes security seriously. Mike Hanley was hired as GitHub's new CSO in February 2021.

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CSO Magazine

MAY 4, 2022

Researchers from cybersecurity vendor CrowdStrike have detected a denial-of-service (DoS) attack compromising Docker Engine honeypots to target Russian and Belarusian websites amid the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war.

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Security Through Education

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Social-Engineer, LLC saw an almost 350% increase in recognition of phishing emails when using a similar training platform in 2020. It is to these carefully crafted campaigns that Social-Engineer, LLC can attribute their success. The answer is simple; with simulated attacks and subsequent training.

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CSO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Researchers have discovered a high-effort search engine optimization (SEO) poisoning campaign that seems to be targeting employees from multiple industries and government sectors when they search for specific terms that are relevant to their work.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

“Upon investigation, we have concluded that such access was used to copy Okta code repositories,” writes David Bradbury, the Okta Chief Security Officer (CSO) in the mail. The Lapsus$ extortion group compromised the laptop of one of its support engineers that allowed them to reset passwords for some of its customers.

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CSO Magazine

MAY 25, 2021

Unfortunately, in some organizations, employees who fall victim to a social engineering ploy that leads to a ransomware attack are blamed for their actions. Social engineering attacks, like phishing emails, are common conduits of ransomware, and have become more sophisticated. Victim shaming is never OK.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 8, 2021

The firm provides enterprise systems engineering, cloud computing and managed services, cyber and security architecture, mobility, operations, and intelligence analytics. The post Intelligent Waves LLC Promotes John Hammes to Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders. For more information, visit ?

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CSO Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Social engineering. Social engineering The easiest way for any hacker to break into any device is for the user to open the door themselves. Making that happen is easier said than done, of course, but it's the goal of most forms of social engineering attacks. 7 ways to hack a phone. Malvertising. Pretexting.

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2022

Teresa Merklin specializes in cyber risk assessment and engineering for cyber resiliency. To read this article in full, please click here (Insider Story)

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CSO Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Advances in quantum engineering and engineered biology will change entire industries. The huge volumes of data now available across the globe, combined with ever increasing computer power and advances in data science, will mean the integration of artificial intelligence, AI, into almost every aspect of our daily lives.”.

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Duo's Security Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

“It took nearly 11 months (328 days) to identity and contain data breaches resulting from stolen or compromised credentials.” – IBM’s Cost of Data Breach Report 2023 I recently came across a 2012 article from CSO Online , and realized that it has been more than 11 years since the phrase “Identity is the new perimeter” was coined!

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

This follows on the heels of last week’s news when Sonatype’s Nexus Intelligence engine and it’s release integrity algorithm discovered discord.dll : the successor to “ fallguys ” malware and 3 other components. Ax’s expertise lies in security vulnerability research, reverse engineering, and software development.

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CSO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The Certified Data Privacy Solutions Engineer (CDPSE) certification focuses on the implementation of privacy solutions, from both a technical and governance perspective. What is the CDPSE certification?

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