Schneier on Security

APRIL 3, 2024

The lawsuit has been settled : Google has agreed to delete “billions of data records” the company collected while users browsed the web using Incognito mode, according to documents filed in federal court in San Francisco on Monday. The agreement, part of a settlement in a class action lawsuit filed in 2020, caps off years of disclosures about Google’s practices that shed light on how much data the tech giant siphons from its users­—even when they’re in private-browsing mode.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 3, 2024

Roughly nine years ago, KrebsOnSecurity profiled a Pakistan-based cybercrime group called “ The Manipulaters ,” a sprawling web hosting network of phishing and spam delivery platforms. In January 2024, The Manipulaters pleaded with this author to unpublish previous stories about their work, claiming the group had turned over a new leaf and gone legitimate.

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Penetration Testing

APRIL 3, 2024

secator secator is a task and workflow runner used for security assessments. It supports dozens of well-known security tools and it is designed to improve productivity for pentesters and security researchers. Feature A curated... The post secator: The pentester’s swiss knife appeared first on Penetration Testing.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 3, 2024

Luna HSMs FIPS 140-3 Validation sparsh Wed, 04/03/2024 - 07:52 FIPS 140-3 and You, Part Two Awhile back, we shared that Thales Luna HSMs were about to kick-off the process of moving towards Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-3 Level 3, the newest security standard to accredit cryptographic modules. Security standards, like technology, are always evolving, making compliance challenging for customers and vendors alike.

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WIRED Threat Level

APRIL 3, 2024

The thwarted XZ Utils supply chain attack was years in the making. Now, clues suggest nation-state hackers were behind the persona that inserted the malicious code.

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Penetration Testing

APRIL 3, 2024

Google has revealed in their April 2024 Pixel Update Bulletin that several serious security flaws could be putting your Pixel device at risk. Two of these vulnerabilities, labeled CVE-2024-29745 and CVE-2024-29748, are already being... The post CVE-2024-29745 & CVE-2024-29748: Critical Google Pixel Flaws Exploited – Update Immediately appeared first on Penetration Testing.

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The Hacker News

APRIL 3, 2024

Google on Tuesday said it's piloting a new feature in Chrome called Device Bound Session Credentials (DBSC) to help protect users against session cookie theft by malware. The prototype – currently tested against "some" Google Account users running Chrome Beta – is built with an aim to make it an open web standard, the tech giant's Chromium team said.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2024

Google addressed several vulnerabilities in Android and Pixel devices, including two actively exploited flaws. Google addressed 28 vulnerabilities in Android and 25 flaws in Pixel devices. Two issues fixed by the IT giant, tracked as CVE-2024-29745 and CVE-2024-29748, are actively exploited in the wild. The most critical flaw addressed by the company impacts the System component, it is a local privilege escalation that doesn’t require any additional execution privileges. “The most se

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The Hacker News

APRIL 3, 2024

Google has disclosed that two Android security flaws impacting its Pixel smartphones have been exploited in the wild by forensic companies.

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Bleeping Computer

APRIL 3, 2024

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) has released a scathing report on how Microsoft handled its 2023 Exchange Online attack, warning that the company needs to do better at securing data and be more truthful about how threat actors stole an Azure signing key. [.

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The Hacker News

APRIL 3, 2024

The banking trojan known as Mispadu has expanded its focus beyond Latin America (LATAM) and Spanish-speaking individuals to target users in Italy, Poland, and Sweden. Targets of the ongoing campaign include entities spanning finance, services, motor vehicle manufacturing, law firms, and commercial facilities, according to Morphisec.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 3, 2024

In April’s update for the Android operating system (OS) , Google has patched 28 vulnerabilities, one of which is rated critical for Android devices equipped with Qualcomm chips. You can find your device’s Android version number, security update level, and Google Play system level in your Settings app. You’ll get notifications when updates are available for you, but you can also check for updates.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2024

Jackson County, Missouri, confirmed that a ransomware attack has disrupted several county services. A ransomware attack disrupted several services of the Jackson County, Missouri. The County Executive Frank White, Jr. declared a state of emergency. “Jackson County has confirmed a ransomware attack was responsible for the disruption of several county services today.” reads the statement released by the County. “The rapid response by county associates, especially those within the

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The Hacker News

APRIL 3, 2024

Ivanti has released security updates to address four security flaws impacting Connect Secure and Policy Secure Gateways that could result in code execution and denial-of-service (DoS). The list of flaws is as follows - CVE-2024-21894 (CVSS score: 8.2) - A heap overflow vulnerability in the IPSec component of Ivanti Connect Secure (9.x, 22.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2024

Resecurity researchers warn that a new Version of JsOutProx is targeting financial institutions in APAC and MENA via Gitlab abuse. Resecurity has detected a new version of JSOutProx , which is targeting financial services and organizations in the APAC and MENA regions. JSOutProx is a sophisticated attack framework utilizing both JavaScript and.NET. It employs the.NET (de)serialization feature to interact with a core JavaScript module running on the victim’s machine.

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Bleeping Computer

APRIL 3, 2024

Data breach alerting service Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) warns that SurveyLama suffered a data breach in February 2024, which exposed the sensitive data of 4.4 million users. [.

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Penetration Testing

APRIL 3, 2024

The Node.js project has released a critical security update addressing vulnerabilities in active release lines (v18.x, v20.x, and v21.x) of the popular JavaScript runtime environment. One of the flaws could allow attackers to crash... The post Node.js Security Update Addresses Server Crash, Request Smuggling Vulnerabilities appeared first on Penetration Testing.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 3, 2024

Google has announced the introduction of Device Bound Session Credentials (DBSC) to secure Chrome users against cookie theft. In January we reported how hackers found a way to gain unauthorized access to Google accounts, bypassing multi-factor authentication (MFA) , by stealing authentication cookies with info-stealer malware. An authentication cookie is added to a web browser after a user proves who they are by logging in.

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The Hacker News

APRIL 3, 2024

Attack surface management (ASM) and vulnerability management (VM) are often confused, and while they overlap, they’re not the same. The main difference between attack surface management and vulnerability management is in their scope: vulnerability management checks a list of known assets, while attack surface management assumes you have unknown assets and so begins with discovery.

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Tech Republic Security

APRIL 3, 2024

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The Hacker News

APRIL 3, 2024

The U.S. Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) has criticized Microsoft for a series of security lapses that led to the breach of nearly two dozen companies across Europe and the U.S. by a China-based nation-state group called Storm-0558 last year.

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Tech Republic Security

APRIL 3, 2024

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Bleeping Computer

APRIL 3, 2024

Google has fixed another zero-day vulnerability in the Chrome browser, which was exploited by security researchers during the Pwn2Own hacking contest last month. [.

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Tech Republic Security

APRIL 3, 2024

In today’s world, if you’re not constantly working to secure your servers, you’re already 10 steps behind every hacker on the planet. And if you happen to be a Linux systems administrator, you might think it doesn’t apply to you. It does. Even though the Linux open source platform is considerably more secure than many.

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Bleeping Computer

APRIL 3, 2024

IT security software company Ivanti has released patches to fix multiple security vulnerabilities impacting its Connect Secure and Policy Secure gateways. [.

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Graham Cluley

APRIL 3, 2024

Google says it is deleting the your Google Chrome Incognito private-browsing data that it should never have collected anyway. Can a zero-risk millionaire-making bot be trusted? And what countries are banned from buying your sensitive data? All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by Host Unknown's Thom Langford.

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Penetration Testing

APRIL 3, 2024

The security researcher Rafie Muhammad has found multiple high-severity vulnerabilities in the REHub WordPress theme (premium version) and the associated REHub Framework plugin. These weaknesses, if left unpatched, could have devastating consequences for businesses... The post Urgent: Patch Critical Vulnerabilities in Widely-Used REHub WordPress Theme & Plugin appeared first on Penetration Testing.

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Bleeping Computer

APRIL 3, 2024

A premium WordPress plugin named LayerSlider, used in over one million sites, is vulnerable to unauthenticated SQL injection, requiring admins to prioritize applying security updates for the plugin. [.

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Tech Republic Security

APRIL 3, 2024

Of the IT and security professionals surveyed, 63% said AI will improve security within their organization.

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Bleeping Computer

APRIL 3, 2024

Chilean data center and hosting provider IxMetro Powerhost has suffered a cyberattack at the hands of a new ransomware gang known as SEXi, which encrypted the company's VMware ESXi servers and backups. [.

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