Security Boulevard
JUNE 25, 2021
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) faced unique challenges on the cybersecurity front. The massive disruption caused by the pandemic only exacerbated the challenges of protecting data, systems and business—not to mention customers and their data. Now that we’re starting to see signs of recovery, it’s important for SMBs to view.
CyberSecurity Insiders
JUNE 21, 2021
By Matthew Meehan, chief operating officer at TokenEx. We have all heard the proverb that teaches, “slow and steady wins the race.” But what if slow isn’t an option? In the wake of COVID-19, many businesses sped through the digitization process to transform their businesses in record time. In their haste, important data protection measures and security considerations were either undermined, or simply not considered.
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Krebs on Security
JUNE 21, 2021
Amid multiple recent reports of hackers breaking into and tampering with drinking water treatment systems comes a new industry survey with some sobering findings: A majority of the 52,000 separate drinking water systems in the United States still haven’t inventoried some or any of their information technology systems — a basic first step in protecting networks from cyberattacks.
Joseph Steinberg
JUNE 23, 2021
Cyber Security Expert, Joseph Steinberg, has joined Newsweek’s Expert Forum, the premier news outlet’s invitation-only community of pioneering thinkers and industry leaders. Steinberg was selected for the forum based on his proven expertise in the fields of cybersecurity, privacy, and artificial intelligence. Scott Gerber, founder of the Newsweek Expert Forum, noted: “We are honored to accept Joseph Steinberg into the Newsweek Expert Forum.
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Troy Hunt
JUNE 19, 2021
Thought I'd do a bit of AMA this week given the rest of the content was a bit lighter. If you like this sort of content then I'll try and be a bit more organised next time, give some notice and make more of an event out of it. Other than that, I'm screwing around with more IoT things, dealing with more breaches, onboarding new governments so yeah, same same 🙂 References Here's the iFixit kit I bought, it's the "Pro Tech Toolkit" (this is a really nice pie
Schneier on Security
JUNE 22, 2021
At this year’s Apple Worldwide Developer Conference, Apple announced something called “iCloud Private Relay.” That’s basically its private version of onion routing , which is what Tor does. Privacy Relay is built into both the forthcoming iOS and MacOS versions, but it will only work if you’re an iCloud Plus subscriber and you have it enabled from within your iCloud settings.
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Lohrman on Security
JUNE 20, 2021
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) opened the door for cyber attacks to trigger “Article 5” actions. This is a big deal — here’s why.
Troy Hunt
JUNE 23, 2021
Recently, I've been providing a lot of additional government access to Have I Been Pwned. Today I'm happy to welcome the Jamaica Cyber Incident Response Team (JaCIRT), the 22nd national CERT on HIBP and 11th in the last 4 months. They now have full and free API level access to query all government domains belonging to the Caribbean nation.
Schneier on Security
JUNE 21, 2021
The Center for Security and Emerging Technology has a new report: “ Machine Learning and Cybersecurity: Hype and Reality.” Here’s the bottom line: The report offers four conclusions: Machine learning can help defenders more accurately detect and triage potential attacks. However, in many cases these technologies are elaborations on long-standing methods — not fundamentally new approaches — that bring new attack surfaces of their own.
Krebs on Security
JUNE 25, 2021
Hard drive giant Western Digital is urging users of its MyBook Live brand of network storage drives to disconnect them from the Internet, warning that malicious hackers are remotely wiping the drives using a critical flaw that can be triggered by anyone who knows the Internet address of an affected device. One of many similar complaints on Western Digital’s user forum.
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Tech Republic Security
JUNE 23, 2021
The threat to people's lives is terrifying, so auto manufacturers need to change their old-school strategies to protect people.
We Live Security
JUNE 24, 2021
Cyberattacks targeting the gaming industry skyrocket, with web attacks more than tripling year-on-year in 2020. The post Gaming industry under siege from cyberattacks during pandemic appeared first on WeLiveSecurity.
Schneier on Security
JUNE 23, 2021
Wired is reporting on a company called Mollitiam Industries: Marketing materials left exposed online by a third-party claim Mollitiam’s interception products, dubbed “Invisible Man” and “Night Crawler,” are capable of remotely accessing a target’s files, location, and covertly turning on a device’s camera and microphone.
Hot for Security
JUNE 22, 2021
A bizarre bug has been discovered in iOS that can cause an iPhone to crash when it attempts to join a Wi-Fi network with a particular name. What’s the offending name? Well, I don’t want to put it in the text of this article in case some readers are curious enough to try it out for themselves. So, here it is as an image: Security researcher Carl Schou stumbled across the problem, and tweeted a vido of his iPhone getting in a mighty muddle when trying to connect to a Wi-Fi hotspot with
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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.
Tech Republic Security
JUNE 22, 2021
The new offerings are aimed at integrating security data across multiple on-prem and cloud environments and vendors to improve cybersecurity decision-making, the company says.
We Live Security
JUNE 23, 2021
It can be difficult to tell a legitimate website apart from an unsafe one – follow these steps to identify and protect yourself from bad websites. The post How to tell if a website is safe appeared first on WeLiveSecurity.
Schneier on Security
JUNE 25, 2021
News from Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology: China Claims Its AI Can Beat Human Pilots in Battle: Chinese state media reported that an AI system had successfully defeated human pilots during simulated dogfights. According to the Global Times report , the system had shot down several PLA pilots during a handful of virtual exercises in recent years.
Security Affairs
JUNE 19, 2021
North Korea-linked APT group Kimsuky allegedly breached South Korea’s atomic research agency KAERI by exploiting a VPN vulnerability. South Korean representatives declared on Friday that North Korea-linked APT group Kimsuky is believed to have breached the internal network of the South Korean Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI). The Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) in Daejeon, South Korea was established in 1959 as the sole professional research-oriented institute for nuclea
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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.
Tech Republic Security
JUNE 22, 2021
Expert says ransomware attacks will happen, and your company has to be prepared long before the attack hits.
Bleeping Computer
JUNE 19, 2021
A new iPhone bug has come to light that breaks your iPhone's wireless functionality by merely connecting to a certain WiFi hotspot. Once triggered, the bug would render your iPhone unable to establish a WiFi connection, even if it is rebooted or the WiFi hotspot is renamed. [.].
Security Boulevard
JUNE 21, 2021
In today’s hyperautomated world, organizations connect various environments, applications and databases to one another, creating complex infrastructures. Security professionals discuss the difficulties inherent in securing cloud environments, and the risks that third-party vendors pose to a company’s increasingly IT-dependent business structure. Malicious actors continue to target critical information through increasingly sophisticated supply chain attacks.
Security Affairs
JUNE 21, 2021
The British intelligence agency MI5 seized Boris Johnson ‘s phone over concerns related to the availability of his number online for the last 15 years. The British Security Service, also known as MI5, has seized the mobile devices used by PM Boris Johnson over concerns that were raised after the discovery of the availability of its number online for the last 15 years.
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Graham Cluley
JUNE 25, 2021
Storage drive maker Western Digital is telling owners of its WD My Book Live device to disconnect it from the internet, after reports that some have had their data erased by malicious software. Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
Bleeping Computer
JUNE 25, 2021
Windows 11 requires a TPM security processor to install or upgrade to Windows 11. Unfortunately, there has been a lot of confusion about what type of TPM you need and why you need it in the first place. [.].
Security Boulevard
JUNE 21, 2021
Recent attacks targeting intellectual property (IP) and critical infrastructure are raising the security stakes for manufacturing organizations, as the industry records one of the highest attack rates of any sector since the onset of COVID-19. One in five manufacturing companies in the U.S. and UK have been victims of a cyberattack in the last 12. The post Cybercriminals Increasingly Target Manufacturing, IP appeared first on Security Boulevard.
Security Affairs
JUNE 21, 2021
The Taiwanese memory and storage chip maker ADATA was hit by the Ragnar Locker ransomware gang that also published more than 700GB of stolen data. The Ragnar Locker ransomware gang has published on its leak sites more than 700GB of data stolen from Taiwanese memory and storage chip maker ADATA. The group published the link to 13 password-protected archives, allegedly containing sensitive data stolen from the chipmaker. “!
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The Hacker News
JUNE 19, 2021
A string of cyber espionage campaigns dating all the way back to 2014 and focused on gathering military intelligence from neighbouring countries have been linked to a Chinese military-intelligence apparatus.
Bleeping Computer
JUNE 25, 2021
Mercedes-Benz USA has just disclosed a data breach impacting under 1,000 customers and potential buyers that exposed their credit card information, social security numbers, and driver license numbers. [.].
Security Boulevard
JUNE 24, 2021
Increased availability and adoption of 5G technology means a more connected world, which in turn means more users with a greater variety of devices. While this means that IT security teams will have more to manage, many of the leading security vendors have been planning for 5G for years. Organizations should be doing all of. The post The Role of 5G in Defining Cybersecurity Strategies appeared first on Security Boulevard.
Security Affairs
JUNE 20, 2021
A new bug in iPhone can permanently break users’ WiFi by disabling it, the issue could be triggered by simply connecting to a rogue hotspot. The researcher Carl Schou discovered a new bug in iPhone that can permanently break users’ WiFi by disabling it, the issue could be triggered by simply connecting to a rogue hotspot. . Once an iPhone established a WiFi connection to a rogue hotspot, it will no more be able to establish a connection to a Wi-Fi device, even if it is rebooted or th
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Within the past few years, ransomware attacks have turned to critical infrastructure, healthcare, and government entities. Attackers have taken advantage of the rapid shift to remote work and new technologies. Add to that hacktivism due to global conflicts and U.S. elections, and an increased focus on AI, and you have the perfect recipe for a knotty and turbulent 2024.
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