Schneier on Security

JANUARY 3, 2024

A helpful summary of which US retail stores are using facial recognition, thinking about using it, or currently not planning on using it. (This, of course, can all change without notice.) Three years ago, I wrote that campaigns to ban facial recognition are too narrow. The problem here is identification, correlation, and then discrimination. There’s no difference whether the identification technology is facial recognition, the MAC address of our phones, gait recognition, license plate reco

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Tech Republic Security

JANUARY 3, 2024

Commentary: Australia’s Cyber Security Strategy 2023-2030 is a bold and far-reaching vision that will see Australia become a world leader. However, a lack of bipartisan agreement may undermine it.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2024

Crypto platform Orbit Chain suffered a cyberattack, threat actors have stolen more than $81 million worth of cryptocurrency. Orbit Chain has suffered a security breach that has resulted in the theft of more than $81 million worth of cryptocurrency. Orbit Chain is a multi-asset blockchain platform that connects various blockchains through Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC).

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Bleeping Computer

JANUARY 3, 2024

Orange Spain suffered an internet outage today after a hacker breached the company's RIPE account to misconfigure BGP routing and an RPKI configuration. [.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2024

Sometimes, you can’t even trust links with your own domain. As the Cybernews research team has discovered, some BMW subdomains were vulnerable to redirect vulnerability, enabling attackers to forge links leading to malicious sites through them. Cybernews researchers have discovered two BMW subdomains that were vulnerable to SAP redirect vulnerability.

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The Hacker News

JANUARY 3, 2024

As technology adoption has shifted to be employee-led, just in time, and from any location or device, IT and security teams have found themselves contending with an ever-sprawling SaaS attack surface, much of which is often unknown or unmanaged.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 3, 2024

How stupid does he think we are? You’ll want to turn off this new app setting. The post Facebook’s New Privacy Nightmare: ‘Link History’ appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2024

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Google Chrome and Perl library flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added two Qlik Sense vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Below is the list of the issues added to the catalog: CVE-2023-7024 – The vulnerability is a Heap buffer overflow issue in WebRTC.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 3, 2024

In what might be conceived as one of Microsoft’s new year resolutions, it has disclosed that it’s turned off the ms-appinstaller protocol handler by default. The change is designed to make installing apps easier, but it also makes installing malware easier. Typically, an app needs to be on a device before it can be installed, which normally means that a user has to download it first.

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Bleeping Computer

JANUARY 3, 2024

Almost 11 million internet-exposed SSH servers are vulnerable to the Terrapin attack that threatens the integrity of some SSH connections. [.

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We Live Security

JANUARY 3, 2024

If you like typing with your voice, it should also go without saying that you need to take some precautions and avoid spilling your secrets.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 3, 2024

Europols’s spotlight report ‘ Online fraud schemes: a web of deceit’ , looks into online fraud schemes—a major crime threat in the EU and beyond—and one of the report’s primary themes is investment fraud. But first I want to share some more remarkable conclusions from the report: Charity scams that prey on concern about international conflicts and natural disasters are becoming more prevalent.

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IT Security Guru

JANUARY 3, 2024

Swarming or DDoS attacks pose a threat to streamers. Multiple devices flooding your internet connection with traffic can cause slowdowns or crashes. A reliable VPN provider always maintains a DDoS-protected server. Your data goes through a secure server, making it harder for attackers to target your actual IP address. In this article, we will continue to explore how a VPN can fortify your Twitch stream.

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Bleeping Computer

JANUARY 3, 2024

HealthEC LLC, a provider of health management solutions, suffered a data breach that impacts close to 4.5 million individuals who received care through one of the company's customers. [.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 3, 2024

Container technologies are rapidly transforming application development and deployment practices at many organizations. But they also present a minefield of security risks for the growing number of organizations using the technology to package and deploy modern, microservices-based applications. The post The state of container security: 5 key steps to locking down your releases appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Bleeping Computer

JANUARY 3, 2024

LastPass notified customers today that they are now required to use complex master passwords with a minimum of 12 characters to increase their accounts' security. [.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 3, 2024

The post 2024 Trends Affecting Software Product Security appeared first on CodeSecure. The post 2024 Trends Affecting Software Product Security appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Bleeping Computer

JANUARY 3, 2024

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added two vulnerabilities to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, a recently patched flaw in Google Chrome and a bug affecting an open-source Perl library for reading information in an Excel file called Spreadsheet::ParseExcel. [.

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The Hacker News

JANUARY 3, 2024

Information stealing malware are actively taking advantage of an undocumented Google OAuth endpoint named MultiLogin to hijack user sessions and allow continuous access to Google services even after a password reset.

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Bleeping Computer

JANUARY 3, 2024

The Twitter account of American cybersecurity firm and Google subsidiary Mandiant was hijacked earlier today to impersonate the Phantom crypto wallet and share a cryptocurrency scam. [.

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The Hacker News

JANUARY 3, 2024

A new exploitation technique called Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) smuggling can be weaponized by threat actors to send spoofed emails with fake sender addresses while bypassing security measures.

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Phishing 111

Security Boulevard

JANUARY 3, 2024

Software supply chain attacks are seeing an unprecedented surge. According to the Sonatype State of the Software Supply Chain Report, twice as many incidents were recorded in 2023 as compared to the cumulative total from 2019-2022. The numbers are stark indicators of the fact that the software supply chain, rich with native code, open-source packages, […] The post How Secure Code Signing Aligns With The Principles of DevSecOps appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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The Hacker News

JANUARY 3, 2024

American cybersecurity firm and Google Cloud subsidiary Mandiant had its X (formerly Twitter) account compromised for more than six hours by an unknown attacker to propagate a cryptocurrency scam. As of writing, the account has been restored on the social media platform. It's currently not clear how the account was breached.

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Penetration Testing

JANUARY 3, 2024

Flutter Spy Flutter Spy is a Bash-based command-line tool designed to provide insightful code analysis and data extraction capabilities from built Flutter apps with reverse engineering. It empowers developers, bug hunters, and security enthusiasts... The post flutter-spy: Explore, analyze, and gain valuable data & insights from reverse engineered Flutter apps appeared first on Penetration Testing.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 3, 2024

It’s unfortunately become an all-to-common scenario: you’re waiting for a package to be delivered—but then you receive an SMS text message that seems to be from the carrier, demanding payment before delivery can be completed. If you follow the link in the message, a look-alike website will be reached where you can enter your credit […] The post The Complete Guide to Smishing (SMS Phishing) appeared first on CybeReady.

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Penetration Testing

JANUARY 3, 2024

In the ever-evolving world of cybersecurity, the HAFNIUM threat actor has emerged with a novel and clandestine approach to manipulating scheduled tasks, a technique aimed at establishing persistence in compromised systems. This method centered... The post The Stealthy Tech of Scheduled Task Tampering: A Deep Dive into the HAFNIUM Threat Actor’s Latest Tactic appeared first on Penetration Testing.

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Heimadal Security

JANUARY 3, 2024

Transformative Healthcare announces Fallon Ambulance data breach exposed sensitive information of 911,757 customers. Fallon ceased operations in December 2022 but is still responsible for a data storage archive that hackers targeted with ransomware. The ALPHV threat group a.k.a. BlackCat, claimed responsibility for the cyberattack. What`s the Impact of the Fallon Ambulance Data Breach Security experts […] The post Massive Fallon Ambulance Data Breach Impacts Nearly One Million People appea

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Bleeping Computer

JANUARY 3, 2024

The Twitter account of American cybersecurity firm and Google subsidiary Mandiant was hijacked earlier today to impersonate the Phantom crypto wallet and share a cryptocurrency scam. [.

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Penetration Testing

JANUARY 3, 2024

The popular “OMGF | GDPR/DSGVO Compliant, Faster Google Fonts. Easy.” plugin, a staple in over 300,000 WordPress sites, has been hit by a formidable security flaw, identified as CVE-2023-6600. With a CVSS score of... The post CVE-2023-6600: Over 300,000 Sites at Risk from OMGF Plugin XSS Flaw appeared first on Penetration Testing.

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Bleeping Computer

JANUARY 3, 2024

Adult media giant Aylo has blocked access to many of its websites, including PornHub, to visitors from Montana and North Caroline as new age verifications laws go into effect. [.

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