Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 10, 2024

An Australian news agency is reporting that robot vacuum cleaners from the Chinese company Deebot are surreptitiously taking photos and recording audio, and sending that data back to the vendor to train their AIs. Ecovacs’s privacy policy— available elsewhere in the app —allows for blanket collection of user data for research purposes, including: The 2D or 3D map of the user’s house generated by the device Voice recordings from the device’s microphone Photos or vide

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Austin, TX, Oct. 10th, 2024, CyberNewswire — SpyCloud, the leader in Identity Threat Protection, announced that its SaaS Investigations solution has been enhanced with identity analytics that illuminate the scope of digital identities and accelerate successful outcomes of complex investigations from days or hours to minutes. SpyCloud Investigations is a powerful cybercrime and identity threat investigation solution used by analysts and investigators to discover and act on threats by naviga

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Tech Republic Security

OCTOBER 10, 2024

An attacker snuck in by creating two new user accounts. Fidelity Investments assures customers their investments were not affected.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Jscrambler researchers found a skimming campaign using unique JavaScript obfuscation with accented characters to hide a skimmer named Mongolian Skimmer. Jscrambler researchers uncovered a skimming campaign using unique JavaScript obfuscation with accented characters to hide a skimmer dubbed ‘Mongolian Skimmer.’ The attackers used unusual Unicode characters for variables and function names.

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Tech Republic Security

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Despite a huge talent shortage in the cybersecurity industry, women still feel discouraged from joining it due to concerns over their knowledge, its inclusivity, and the pay.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Mozilla released an urgent Firefox update to fix a critical use-after-free vulnerability actively exploited in ongoing attacks. Mozilla released an emergency security update for its Firefox browser to address a critical use-after-free vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-9680, that is actively exploited in attacks. The vulnerability CVE-2024-9680 resides in Animation timelines.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Qualys this week added a risk operations center (ROC) to its portfolio to make it simpler to identify potential threats to the business and centrally manage remediation efforts. The post Qualys Unfurls Risk Operations Center Platform appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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We Live Security

OCTOBER 10, 2024

ESET Research shares new findings about Telekopye, a scam toolkit used to defraud people on online marketplaces, and newly on accommodation booking platforms

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Trend Micro

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Trend Micro's investigation into the recent activity of Earth Simnavaz provides new insights into the APT group’s evolving tactics and the immediate threat it poses to critical sectors in the UAE.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Security Field Day 12 will take place October 16-17, 2024. You can watch the live-streaming video right here on the Techstrong family of sites or on the Tech Field Day website. The post Understanding Security Needs at Security Field Day 12 appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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The Hacker News

OCTOBER 10, 2024

GitLab has released security updates for Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) to address eight security flaws, including a critical bug that could allow running Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines on arbitrary branches. Tracked as CVE-2024-9164, the vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 9.6 out of 10.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 10, 2024

A user authentication database was stolen from the nonprofit , which also was been beset by a series of DDoS attacks, and a pro-Palestinian threat group has taken credit for the attacks and the data breach. The post Internet Archive is Attacked and 31 Million Files Stolen appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2024

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Ivanti CSA and Fortinet bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the following vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog : CVE-2024-23113 Fortinet Multiple Products Format String Vulnerability CVE-2024-9379 Ivanti Cloud Services Appliance (CSA) SQL Injection Vulnerability CVE-2024-9380 Ivanti Cloud Services Appliance (

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The Hacker News

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new digital skimmer campaign that leverages Unicode obfuscation techniques to conceal a skimmer dubbed Mongolian Skimmer. "At first glance, the thing that stood out was the script's obfuscation, which seemed a bit bizarre because of all the accented characters," Jscrambler researchers said in an analysis.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 10, 2024

A non-profit that benefits millions of people has fallen victim to a data breach and a DDoS attack. Internet Archive, most known for its Wayback Machine , is a digital library that allows users to look at website snapshots from the past. It is often used for academic research and data analysis. Cybercriminals managed to breach the site and steal a user authentication database containing 31 million records.

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The Hacker News

OCTOBER 10, 2024

OpenAI on Wednesday said it has disrupted more than 20 operations and deceptive networks across the world that attempted to use its platform for malicious purposes since the start of the year. This activity encompassed debugging malware, writing articles for websites, generating biographies for social media accounts, and creating AI-generated profile pictures for fake accounts on X.

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GlobalSign

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Secure your Kubernetes workloads with GlobalSign’s TLS certificates. Enhance security and ensure data integrity in your cloud-native environments.

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The Hacker News

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The Dutch police have announced the takedown of Bohemia and Cannabia, which has been described as the world's largest and longest-running dark web market for illegal goods, drugs, and cybercrime services. The takedown is the result of a collaborative investigation with Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States that began towards the end of 2022, the Politie said.

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Graham Cluley

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Financial Business and Consumer Solutions (FBCS), a debt collection agency previously used by Comcast, was the subject of a ransomware attack in February 2024, which had a database of names, addresses, social security numbers, dates of birth, and Comcast account details exposed. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 10, 2024

A study by Pillar Security found that generative AI models are highly susceptible to jailbreak attacks, which take an average of 42 seconds and five interactions to execute, and that 20% of attempts succeed. The post Attacks on GenAI Models Can Take Seconds, Often Succeed: Report appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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The Hacker News

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The current SOC model relies on a scarce resource: human analysts. These professionals are expensive, in high demand, and increasingly difficult to retain. Their work is not only highly technical and high-risk, but also soul-crushingly repetitive, dealing with a constant flood of alerts and incidents.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Password management products that are competitors of Enpass offer plenty of features, strong security, and support for multiple devices and browsers. Some of the most common password manager features include multi-factor authentication, browser autofill, secure sharing, and strong password generators. I reviewed Enpass’s main competitors to determine the top performers with the best features, pricing, system support, and security.

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The Hacker News

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Cybersecurity security researchers are warning about an unpatched vulnerability in Nice Linear eMerge E3 access controller systems that could allow for the execution of arbitrary operating system (OS) commands. The flaw, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2024-9441, carries a CVSS score of 9.8 out of a maximum of 10.0, according to VulnCheck.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The concept of product security, though simple to understand, can be complex when it comes to implementation. To embed an efficient product security framework, you need to explore the key points and have suitable tools. In this post, we cover: Product security definition Key differences between product security vs application security The main elements of efficient product cybersecurity frameworks The categories of tools that can enhance the security of your product What is product security?

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Duo's Security Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Available now in Public Preview for all paid Duo subscriptions Seamlessly connect multiple identity providers to Duo Orchestrate secure access for multi-domain environments “Routing Rules just make sense, and it is great to see all of our users under one single Duo tenant.” — Head of IT, Biotechnology Organization Today, we are proud to announce the launch of Routing Rules for Duo Single Sign-On (SSO) into Public Preview.

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Zero Day

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Have a private document on your desktop OS? Here's how to keep it secure on Linux, MacOS, and Windows.

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Penetration Testing

OCTOBER 10, 2024

SonicWall has released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities affecting its SMA 1000 series SSL-VPN appliances and the associated Connect Tunnel Windows client. These flaws could allow attackers to launch... The post Multiple Vulnerabilities Found in SonicWall SSL-VPN SMA1000 and Connect Tunnel Windows Client appeared first on Cybersecurity News.

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Zero Day

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Upgrading its capabilities to Imagen 3, Google Gemini's new skills are accessible to both free and paid users. Here are 3 ways to try them today.

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Google Security

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Posted by Adrian Taylor, Security Engineer, Chrome Chrome’s user interface (UI) code is complex, and sometimes has bugs. Are those bugs security bugs? Specifically, if a user’s clicks and actions result in memory corruption, is that something that an attacker can exploit to harm that user? Our security severity guidelines say “yes, sometimes.” For example, an attacker could very likely convince a user to click an autofill prompt, but it will be much harder to convince the user to step through a

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Zero Day

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Twelve South's HiRise 2 Deluxe wireless charger is a sophisticated charging solution for two devices at once.

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