Have You Factored Cybersecurity Infrastructure into Your Global Growth?
GlobalSign
AUGUST 14, 2023
As companies extend their operations globally, they must prioritise cybersecurity measures to support sustainable long-term growth. Read more.
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Zoom Can Spy on Your Calls and Use the Conversation to Train AI, But Says That It Won’t
Schneier on Security
AUGUST 15, 2023
This is why we need regulation: Zoom updated its Terms of Service in March, spelling out that the company reserves the right to train AI on user data with no mention of a way to opt out. On Monday, the company said in a blog post that there’s no need to worry about that. Zoom execs swear the company won’t actually train its AI on your video calls without permission, even though the Terms of Service still say it can.
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Black Hat insights: Generative AI begins seeping into the security platforms that will carry us forward
The Last Watchdog
AUGUST 13, 2023
LAS VEGAS – Just when we appeared to be on the verge of materially shrinking the attack surface, along comes an unpredictable, potentially explosive wild card: generative AI. Related: Can ‘CNAPP’ do it all? Unsurprisingly, generative AI was in the spotlight at Black Hat USA 2023 , which returned to its full pre-Covid grandeur here last week.
Karma Catches Up to Global Phishing Service 16Shop
Krebs on Security
AUGUST 17, 2023
You’ve probably never heard of “ 16Shop ,” but there’s a good chance someone using it has tried to phish you. A 16Shop phishing page spoofing Apple and targeting Japanese users. Image: Akamai.com. The international police organization INTERPOL said last week it had shuttered the notorious 16Shop, a popular phishing-as-a-service platform launched in 2017 that made it simple for even complete novices to conduct complex and convincing phishing scams.
Why Giant Content Libraries Do Nothing for Your Employees’ Cyber Resilience
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Many cybersecurity awareness platforms offer massive content libraries, yet they fail to enhance employees’ cyber resilience. Without structured, engaging, and personalized training, employees struggle to retain and apply key cybersecurity principles. Phished.io explains why organizations should focus on interactive, scenario-based learning rather than overwhelming employees with excessive content.
All New Have I Been Pwned Domain Search APIs and Splunk Integration
Troy Hunt
AUGUST 14, 2023
I've been teaching my 13-year old son Ari how to code since I first got him started on Scratch many years ago, and gradually progressed through to the current day where he's getting into Python in Visual Studio Code. As I was writing the new domain search API for Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) over the course of this year, I was trying to explain to him how powerful APIs are: Think of HIBP as one website that does pretty much one thing; you load it in your browser and search through data bre
UK Electoral Commission Hacked
Schneier on Security
AUGUST 16, 2023
The UK Electoral Commission discovered last year that it was hacked the year before. That’s fourteen months between the hack and the discovery. It doesn’t know who was behind the hack. We worked with external security experts and the National Cyber Security Centre to investigate and secure our systems. If the hack was by a major government, the odds are really low that it has resecured its systems—unless it burned the network to the ground and rebuilt it from scratch (which see
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Diligere, Equity-Invest Are New Firms of U.K. Con Man
Krebs on Security
AUGUST 14, 2023
John Clifton Davies , a convicted fraudster estimated to have bilked dozens of technology startups out of more than $30 million through phony investment schemes, has a brand new pair of scam companies that are busy dashing startup dreams: A fake investment firm called Equity-Invest[.]ch , and Diligere[.]co.uk , a scam due diligence company that Equity-Invest insists all investment partners use.
How to Retrieve and Generate Google 2FA Backup Codes
Tech Republic Security
AUGUST 17, 2023
Learn how to retrieve and generate Google 2FA backup codes with this easy-to-follow, step-by-step tutorial.
China Hacked Japan’s Military Networks
Schneier on Security
AUGUST 14, 2023
The NSA discovered the intrusion in 2020—we don’t know how—and alerted the Japanese. The Washington Post has the story : The hackers had deep, persistent access and appeared to be after anything they could get their hands on—plans, capabilities, assessments of military shortcomings, according to three former senior U.S. officials, who were among a dozen current and former U.S. and Japanese officials interviewed, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the matte
Highlights from the 16th Annual MS-ISAC Meeting
Lohrman on Security
AUGUST 13, 2023
The 2023 MS-ISAC and EI-ISAC meeting just wrapped up in Salt Lake City. Here’s a roundup of what happened and what’s next.
Zero Trust Mandate: The Realities, Requirements and Roadmap
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The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.
Who Else Wants to Enjoy a Cybersecurity Conference?
Jane Frankland
AUGUST 18, 2023
Every now and again I’m asked about conferences and whether they’re worth attending. My answer is always, yes so long as you plan carefully. Over the years I’ve attended hundreds of cybersecurity conferences all over the world, and participated as an attendee, speaker, chair, and advisor. All these roles have enabled me to gain an understanding of conferences through different lenses.
7 Ways to Access Safe Mode in Windows 10 (2023 Update)
Tech Republic Security
AUGUST 17, 2023
Learn seven different ways to boot a Windows 10 PC in Safe Mode to help troubleshoot issues using this comprehensive guide.
Bots Are Better than Humans at Solving CAPTCHAs
Schneier on Security
AUGUST 18, 2023
Interesting research: “ An Empirical Study & Evaluation of Modern CAPTCHAs “: Abstract: For nearly two decades, CAPTCHAS have been widely used as a means of protection against bots. Throughout the years, as their use grew, techniques to defeat or bypass CAPTCHAS have continued to improve. Meanwhile, CAPTCHAS have also evolved in terms of sophistication and diversity, becoming increasingly difficult to solve for both bots (machines) and humans.
WinRAR flaw lets hackers run programs when you open RAR archives
Bleeping Computer
AUGUST 18, 2023
A high-severity vulnerability has been fixed in WinRAR, the popular file archiver utility for Windows used by millions, that can execute commands on a computer simply by opening an archive. [.
Prevent Data Breaches With Zero-Trust Enterprise Password Management
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Thousands of Android Malware Apps Using Stealthy APK Compression to Evade Detection
The Hacker News
AUGUST 18, 2023
Threat actors are using Android Package (APK) files with unknown or unsupported compression methods to elude malware analysis. That's according to findings from Zimperium, which found 3,300 artifacts leveraging such compression algorithms in the wild. 71 of the identified samples can be loaded on the operating system without any problems.
DEF CON Generative AI Hacking Challenge Explored Cutting Edge of Security Vulnerabilities
Tech Republic Security
AUGUST 15, 2023
Data from the human vs. machine challenge could provide a framework for government and enterprise policies around generative AI.
Detecting “Violations of Social Norms” in Text with AI
Schneier on Security
AUGUST 17, 2023
Researchers are trying to use AI to detect “social norms violations.” Feels a little sketchy right now, but this is the sort of thing that AIs will get better at. (Like all of these systems, anything but a very low false positive rate makes the detection useless in practice.) News article.
WinRAR flaw enables remote code execution of arbitrary code
Security Affairs
AUGUST 18, 2023
A flaw impacting the file archiver utility for Windows WinRAR can allow the execution of commands on a computer by opening an archive. WinRAR is a popular file compression and archival utility for Windows operating systems. The utility is affected by a now-fixed high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-40477 (CVSS score 7.8), that can allow remote execution of arbitrary code on a computer by opening a crafted RAR archive.
Optimizing The Modern Developer Experience with Coder
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Many software teams have migrated their testing and production workloads to the cloud, yet development environments often remain tied to outdated local setups, limiting efficiency and growth. This is where Coder comes in. In our 101 Coder webinar, you’ll explore how cloud-based development environments can unlock new levels of productivity. Discover how to transition from local setups to a secure, cloud-powered ecosystem with ease.
New BlackCat Ransomware Variant Adopts Advanced Impacket and RemCom Tools
The Hacker News
AUGUST 18, 2023
Microsoft on Thursday disclosed that it found a new version of the BlackCat ransomware (aka ALPHV and Noberus) that embeds tools like Impacket and RemCom to facilitate lateral movement and remote code execution.
Massive EvilProxy Phishing Attack Campaign Bypasses 2FA, Targets Top-Level Executives
Tech Republic Security
AUGUST 14, 2023
This attack sent approximately 120,000 phishing emails to organizations worldwide with the goal to steal Microsoft 365 credentials.
Hotmail email delivery fails after Microsoft misconfigures DNS
Bleeping Computer
AUGUST 18, 2023
Hotmail users worldwide have problems sending emails, with messages flagged as spam or not delivered after Microsoft misconfigured the domain's DNS SPF record. [.
#OpFukushima: Anonymous group protests against the plan to dump Fukushima RADIOACTIVE wastewater into Pacific
Security Affairs
AUGUST 18, 2023
#OpFukushima: The famous collective Anonymous has launched cyberattacks against Japan nuclear websites over Fukushima water plan. The hacker collective Anonymous has launched cyberattacks against nuclear power-linked groups in Japan as part of an operation called #OpFukushima. The campaign was launched to protest against the Government’s plan to release the treated radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea.
The Importance of User Roles and Permissions in Cybersecurity Software
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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.
Behind the Curtain of Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT)
Digital Shadows
AUGUST 18, 2023
Cyber-actors hide using "clean" resources. ReliaQuest shows tracking IoCs & detection helps security pros counteract disguised attacks. Enhancing OSINT is key.
At Black Hat, Splunk, AWS, IBM Security and Others Launch Open Source Cybersecurity Framework
Tech Republic Security
AUGUST 14, 2023
With security schema, Splunk and collaborators aim to transform alert telemetry from cacophony to chorus with one taxonomy across vendors and tools.
NoFilter Attack: Sneaky Privilege Escalation Method Bypasses Windows Security
The Hacker News
AUGUST 17, 2023
A previously undetected attack method called NoFilter has been found to abuse the Windows Filtering Platform (WFP) to achieve privilege escalation in the Windows operating system.
Massive phishing campaign targets users of the Zimbra Collaboration email server
Security Affairs
AUGUST 18, 2023
A massive social engineering campaign is targeting users of the Zimbra Collaboration email server to steal their login credentials. ESET researchers uncovered a mass-spreading phishing campaign targeting users of the Zimbra Collaboration email server since April 2023. Zimbra Collaboration is an open-core collaborative software platform. The campaign is still ongoing and is targeting a wide range of small and medium businesses and governmental entities.
The Tumultuous IT Landscape Is Making Hiring More Difficult
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Windows Task Manager refresh can be paused using CTRL key
Bleeping Computer
AUGUST 17, 2023
A very useful and previously unknown Windows tip was revealed this week, where you can halt process jumping in Task Manager by holding down the Ctrl key on your keyboard, allowing easier access to a listed process. [.
31% of Organizations Using Generative AI Ask It To Write Code
Tech Republic Security
AUGUST 17, 2023
Code development, content creation and analytics are the top generative AI use cases. However, many enterprise users don't trust gen AI to be private.
New SEC Cybersecurity Rules and What It Means for Board Oversight
Security Boulevard
AUGUST 17, 2023
The SEC adopted new rules surrounding cybersecurity risk management, strategy, governance, and incident disclosure. As a CISO, this no doubt impacts how your company discloses material cybersecurity incidents through a Form 8-K item and annually cybersecurity risk management and governance through the company’sForm 10-K. The final rule requires the 8-K to be filed within four […] The post New SEC Cybersecurity Rules and What It Means for Board Oversight appeared first on BlackCloak | Protec
Africa Cyber Surge II law enforcement operation has led to the arrest of 14 suspects
Security Affairs
AUGUST 18, 2023
An international law enforcement operation across 25 African countries has led to the arrest of 14 cybercriminals. A coordinated law enforcement operation conducted by INTERPOL and AFRIPOL across 25 African countries has led to the arrest of 14 suspected cybercriminals and the identification of 20,674 suspicious cyber networks. The operation demonstrates the surge in cybercriminal activities in the region.
IDC Analyst Report: The Open Source Blind Spot Putting Businesses at Risk
Advertiser: Revenera
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.
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