Krebs on Security
FEBRUARY 26, 2023
Web hosting giant GoDaddy made headlines this month when it disclosed that a multi-year breach allowed intruders to steal company source code, siphon customer and employee login credentials, and foist malware on customer websites. Media coverage understandably focused on GoDaddy’s admission that it suffered three different cyberattacks over as many years at the hands of the same hacking group.
Schneier on Security
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Interesting : According to internal Slack messages that were leaked to Insider , an Amazon lawyer told workers that they had “already seen instances” of text generated by ChatGPT that “closely” resembled internal company data. This issue seems to have come to a head recently because Amazon staffers and other tech workers throughout the industry have begun using ChatGPT as a “ coding assistant ” of sorts to help them write or improve strings of code, the report
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Lohrman on Security
FEBRUARY 12, 2023
Quantum computers hold the promise of amazing advances in numerous fields. So why are cybersecurity experts so worried about Q-Day? What must be done now to prepare?
Troy Hunt
FEBRUARY 19, 2023
I found myself going down a previously unexplored rabbit hole recently, or more specifically, what I thought was "a" rabbit hole but in actual fact was an ever-expanding series of them that led me to what I refer to in the title of this post as "6 rabbits deep" It's a tale of firewalls, APIs and sifting through layers and layers of different services to sniff out the root cause of something that seemed very benign, but actually turned out to be highly impactful.
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Tech Republic Security
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
A new study from IBM Security suggests cyberattackers are taking side routes that are less visible, and they are getting much faster at infiltrating perimeters. The post IBM: Most ransomware blocked last year, but cyberattacks are moving faster appeared first on TechRepublic.
Security Boulevard
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
In this blog, we will discuss what GDPR compliance entails and provide tips on how to create an effective GDPR data protection policy. The post How to Create a GDPR Data Protection Policy appeared first on Scytale. The post How to Create a GDPR Data Protection Policy appeared first on Security Boulevard.
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Schneier on Security
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
This is really interesting research from a few months ago: Abstract: Given the computational cost and technical expertise required to train machine learning models, users may delegate the task of learning to a service provider. Delegation of learning has clear benefits, and at the same time raises serious concerns of trust. This work studies possible abuses of power by untrusted learners.We show how a malicious learner can plant an undetectable backdoor into a classifier.
Lohrman on Security
FEBRUARY 5, 2023
A lot has happened in the past 12 months regarding human microchip implants. Here’s your roundup of recent developments.
Troy Hunt
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
I think I've pretty much captured it all in the title of this post but as of about a day ago, Pwned Passwords now has full parity between the SHA-1 hashes that have been there since day 1 and NTLM hashes. We always had both as a downloadable corpus but as of just over a year ago with the introduction of the FBI data feed , we stopped maintaining downloadable behemoths of data.
Tech Republic Security
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Learn how to protect your business and staff from the MortalKombat ransomware and Laplas Clipper malware. The post Cryptocurrency users in the US hit by ransomware and Clipper malware appeared first on TechRepublic.
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Security Boulevard
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
Google doesn’t want you to know what your Android apps do with your data. That seems to be the conclusion from a Mozilla study into the Play Store. The post ‘See No Evil’ — Mozilla SLAMS Google’s App Privacy Labels appeared first on Security Boulevard.
Graham Cluley
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
Russian media has blamed hackers after commercial radio stations in the country broadcast bogus warnings about air raids and missile strikes, telling listeners to head to shelters.
Schneier on Security
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
The Aspen Institute has published a good analysis of the successes, failures, and absences of cyberattacks as part of the current war in Ukraine: “ The Cyber Defense Assistance Imperative Lessons from Ukraine.” Its conclusion: Cyber defense assistance in Ukraine is working. The Ukrainian government and Ukrainian critical infrastructure organizations have better defended themselves and achieved higher levels of resiliency due to the efforts of CDAC and many others.
Bleeping Computer
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
Brave Software, the developer of the privacy-focused web browser, has announced some plants for the upcoming version 1.49 that will block everyday browsing annoyances like "open in app" prompts and add better protections against pool-party attacks, [.
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How many people would you trust with your house keys? Chances are, you have a handful of trusted friends and family members who have an emergency copy, but you definitely wouldn’t hand those out too freely. You have stuff that’s worth protecting—and the more people that have access to your belongings, the higher the odds that something will go missing.
Trend Micro
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
We discovered a new backdoor which we have attributed to the advanced persistent threat actor known as Earth Kitsune, which we have covered before. Since 2019, Earth Kitsune has been distributing variants of self-developed backdoors to targets, primarily individuals who are interested in North Korea.
Tech Republic Security
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
A new Kaspersky report sheds light on why some tech pros look for jobs on the dark web and how to spot suspicious and likely illegal positions from recruiters in that environment. The post How IT jobs and recruiting on the dark web might trick you appeared first on TechRepublic.
Security Boulevard
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
Sensitive military data found on unprotected Microsoft Azure server. Defense Department email store left insecure for at least 11 days. The post Surprise! US DoD Server Had no Password — 3TB of Sensitive Data Leaked appeared first on Security Boulevard.
Graham Cluley
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
Malicious hackers are taking advantage of people searching the internet for free access to ChatGPT in order to direct them to malware and phishing sites. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
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In a recent study, IDC found that 64% of organizations said they were already using open source in software development with a further 25% planning to in the next year. Most organizations are unaware of just how much open-source code is used and underestimate their dependency on it. As enterprises grow the use of open-source software, they face a new challenge: understanding the scope of open-source software that's being used throughout the organization and the corresponding exposure.
Schneier on Security
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
Hacker “Capture the Flag” has been a mainstay at hacker gatherings since the mid-1990s. It’s like the outdoor game, but played on computer networks. Teams of hackers defend their own computers while attacking other teams’. It’s a controlled setting for what computer hackers do in real life: finding and fixing vulnerabilities in their own systems and exploiting them in others’ It’s the software vulnerability lifecycle.
Bleeping Computer
FEBRUARY 3, 2023
Admins, hosting providers, and the French Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-FR) warn that attackers actively target VMware ESXi servers unpatched against a two-year-old remote code execution vulnerability to deploy ransomware. [.
Google Security
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
Posted by Sarah Jacobus, Vulnerability Rewards Team It has been another incredible year for the Vulnerability Reward Programs (VRPs) at Google! Working with security researchers throughout 2022, we have been able to identify and fix over 2,900 security issues and continue to make our products more secure for our users around the world. We are thrilled to see significant year over year growth for our VRPs, and have had yet another record breaking year for our programs!
Tech Republic Security
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
Ransomware was down last year, though LockBit led threat actors and employees opened a third of the toxic emails in the last six months of 2022. The post New cybersecurity data reveals persistent social engineering vulnerabilities appeared first on TechRepublic.
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The healthcare industry has massively adopted web tracking tools, including pixels and trackers. Tracking tools on user-authenticated and unauthenticated web pages can access personal health information (PHI) such as IP addresses, medical record numbers, home and email addresses, appointment dates, or other info provided by users on pages and thus can violate HIPAA Rules that govern the Use of Online Tracking Technologies by HIPAA Covered Entities and Business Associates.
Security Boulevard
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
Earlier this month, Jen Easterly and Eric Goldstein of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) at the Department of Homeland Security signaled a major shift in the federal government’s approach to cybersecurity risk and responsibility. In their Foreign Affairs article Stop Passing the Buck on Cybersecurity, Easterly and Goldstein make a strong case for.
SecureList
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
ChatGPT is a groundbreaking chatbot powered by the neural network-based language model text-davinci-003 and trained on a large dataset of text from the Internet. It is capable of generating human-like text in a wide range of styles and formats. ChatGPT can be fine-tuned for specific tasks, such as answering questions, summarizing text, and even solving cybersecurity-related problems, such as generating incident reports or interpreting decompiled code.
CyberSecurity Insiders
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
The pandemic shook businesses to its core, forcing users to trade in their office chairs for home desks. The result? Users, devices, and data scattered across the world. And for those in the networking and security fields, this shift brought major challenges. The traditional castle and moat access approach was no longer enough, and even the most reliable security tools became obsolete.
Naked Security
FEBRUARY 26, 2023
Even in Apple's and Google's "walled gardens", there are plenty of 2FA apps that are either dangerously incompetent, or unrepentantly malicious. (Or perhaps both.
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Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?
CSO Magazine
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
Whenever shells rain down on Ukraine, Yuriy Gatupov's colleagues put a '+' sign in a chat room. Then, the pluses are counted. "We check if everybody is alive," he says. Gatupov, the owner of two cybersecurity companies, says it is vital to stay connected during a time of war. With Russia now controlling around 18% of Ukraine's territory including Donbas and Crimea, tech workers face formidable challenges.
Tech Republic Security
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
With nearly 90% of companies reporting cyberattacks, pen testing budgets are on the rise, with cloud infrastructure and services a key focus area, according to a new report. The post Pen testing report: IT budgets should focus on entire security stack appeared first on TechRepublic.
Security Boulevard
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
Implementing modern cryptography standards on tiny IoT devices is hard. They’re underpowered, need to sip battery charge and something like AES is often overkill. The post Amazing Fast Crypto for IoT — US NIST Fingers ASCON appeared first on Security Boulevard.
Bleeping Computer
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
American TV giant and satellite broadcast provider, Dish Network has mysteriously gone offline with its websites and apps ceasing to function over the past 24 hours. [.
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