Lohrman on Security
JUNE 13, 2021
After the recent ransomware attacks against Colonial Pipeline, JBS and others, there are new calls for the U.S. to hack back against cybercrimminals and hold nation-states responsible. So what now?
Hot for Security
JUNE 15, 2021
Our mobile devices are not just a means to communicate with others. They’ve evolved into a data storage device, a video and sound recorder, as well as an easy way to access our bank accounts. Mobile security is often overlooked by many technology users, who dismiss the reality of security risks brought by careless interactions with the digital world.
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Joseph Steinberg
JUNE 15, 2021
Major American banks and various other parties serving them are each spending $1 Billion per year on cybersecurity, according to Bank of America’s CEO, Brian Moynihan. Moynihan made the comment on CNBC’s Squawk Box show yesterday (June 14), noting that “I became CEO 11 and a half years ago, and we probably spent $300 million to $400 million (per year) and we’re up over a billion now… The institutions around us, other institutions and my peers, spend like amounts, and our contra
Troy Hunt
JUNE 14, 2021
Today I'm very happy to welcome the Finnish government to Have I Been Pwned by granting their National Cyber Security Centre full and free access to query their government domains. API access to query their domains will give them greater visibility into the impact of data breaches on the Finnish government. Finland is now the 5th Nordic country and 21st national CERT to be onboarded with many more from around the globe to be announced shortly.
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Schneier on Security
JUNE 17, 2021
General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) is a mobile data standard that was widely used in the early 2000s. The first encryption algorithm for that standard was GEA-1, a stream cipher built on three linear-feedback shift registers and a non-linear combining function. Although the algorithm has a 64-bit key, the effective key length is only 40 bits, due to “an exceptional interaction of the deployed LFSRs and the key initialization, which is highly unlikely to occur by chance.” GEA-1 was d
Krebs on Security
JUNE 16, 2021
Authorities in Ukraine this week charged six people alleged to be part of the CLOP ransomware group , a cybercriminal gang said to have extorted more than half a billion dollars from victims. Some of CLOP’s victims this year alone include Stanford University Medical School , the University of California , and University of Maryland. A still shot from a video showing Ukrainian police seizing a Tesla, one of many high-end vehicles seized in this week’s raids on the Clop gang.
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Tech Republic Security
JUNE 18, 2021
Devices have multiple OSs and firmware running, and most organisations don't know what they have or if it's secure. Microsoft will use ReFirm to make it easier to find out without being an expert.
Schneier on Security
JUNE 15, 2021
Really interesting two part analysis of the audit conducted after the 2020 election in Windham, New Hampshire. Based on preliminary reports published by the team of experts that New Hampshire engaged to examine an election discrepancy, it appears that a buildup of dust in the read heads of optical-scan voting machines (possibly over several years of use) can cause paper-fold lines in absentee ballots to be interpreted as votes… New Hampshire (and other states) may need to maintain the accu
Krebs on Security
JUNE 15, 2021
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) last week announced the arrest of a 55-year-old Latvian woman who’s alleged to have worked as a programmer for Trickbot , a malware-as-a-service platform responsible for infecting millions of computers and seeding many of those systems with ransomware. Just how did a self-employed web site designer and mother of two come to work for one of the world’s most rapacious cybercriminal groups and then leave such an obvious trail of clues indicating her
Joseph Steinberg
JUNE 14, 2021
Naftali Bennett, elected yesterday as Prime Minister of Israel , appears to be the first entrepreneur and executive from the cybersecurity industry to have become the head of a national government. Bennett, who is also the first Prime Minister to emerge from Israel’s high-tech industry, co-founded what would eventually become the cybersecurity firm, Cyota , in 1999.
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Tech Republic Security
JUNE 16, 2021
Loss of revenue, brand and reputation damage, employee layoffs and business closures were some of the effects of a ransomware attack, according to Cybereason.
Schneier on Security
JUNE 14, 2021
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’ll be part of a European Internet Forum virtual debate on June 17, 2021. The topic is “Decrypting the encryption debate: How to ensure public safety with a privacy-preserving and secure Internet?” I’m speaking at the all-online Society for Philosophy and Technology Conference 2021 , June 28-30, 2021.
Krebs on Security
JUNE 18, 2021
In May 2019, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that the website of mortgage settlement giant First American Financial Corp. [ NYSE:FAF ] was leaking more than 800 million documents — many containing sensitive financial data — related to real estate transactions dating back 16 years. This week, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission settled its investigation into the matter after the Fortune 500 company agreed to pay a paltry penalty of less than $500,000.
Security Affairs
JUNE 18, 2021
This strange malware stops you from visiting pirate websites. Sophos researchers uncovered a malware campaign that aims at blocking infected users’ from being able to visit a large number of piracy websites. . Sophos researchers uncovered a malware campaign that aims at blocking infected users’ from visiting a large number of websites dedicated to software piracy by modifying the HOSTS file on the infected system.
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Tech Republic Security
JUNE 17, 2021
With this year's Amazon Prime Day set for June 21-22, scammers are already touting "Early Prime Day Deals," says Bolster.
Schneier on Security
JUNE 14, 2021
This is probably worth paying attention to: A change to TikTok’s U.S. privacy policy on Wednesday introduced a new section that says the social video app “may collect biometric identifiers and biometric information” from its users’ content. This includes things like “faceprints and voiceprints,” the policy explained.
Hot for Security
JUNE 18, 2021
According to a report by Catalin Cimpanu at The Record , authorities in South Korea have filed charges against employees at a computer repair store. What are the nine charged employees of the unnamed company based in Seoul alleged to have done? Created and installed ransomware onto the computers of their customers, netting more than 360 million won (approximately US $320,000.).
We Live Security
JUNE 18, 2021
By failing to prepare you are preparing to fail – here’s what you can do today to minimize the impact of a potential ransomware attack in the future. The post 5 essential things to do before ransomware strikes appeared first on WeLiveSecurity.
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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 15, 2021
56% of all Microsoft critical vulnerabilities could have been mitigated by removing admin rights, according to the 2021 BeyondTrust Microsoft Vulnerabilities Report.
Schneier on Security
JUNE 17, 2021
Paul van Oorschot’s webpage contains a complete copy of his book: Computer Security and the Internet: Tools and Jewels. It’s worth reading.
Hot for Security
JUNE 17, 2021
In December last year, we reported how the email and mailing addresses of some 270,000 Ledger customers had been published on a hacking forum following a data breach. At the time we warned users of the hardware cryptocurrency wallet to watch out for phishing scams that might attempt to steal users’ credentials. What we hadn’t predicted was that cybercriminals would use a rather more elaborate way to steal users’ credentials.
SecureList
JUNE 17, 2021
Black Kingdom ransomware appeared on the scene back in 2019, but we observed some activity again in 2021. The ransomware was used by an unknown adversary for exploiting a Microsoft Exchange vulnerability (CVE-2021-27065). The complexity and sophistication of the Black Kingdom family cannot bear a comparison with other Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) or Big Game Hunting (BGH) families.
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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 14, 2021
Two experts are concerned that employees are no match for nation-state spy services tasked with obtaining a company's vital intellectual property.
Bleeping Computer
JUNE 16, 2021
Scammers are sending fake replacement devices to Ledger customers exposed in a recent data breach that are used to steal cryptocurrency wallets. [.].
Google Security
JUNE 16, 2021
Posted Kim Lewandowski, Google Open Source Security Team & Mark Lodato, Binary Authorization for Borg Team Supply chain integrity attacks—unauthorized modifications to software packages—have been on the rise in the past two years, and are proving to be common and reliable attack vectors that affect all consumers of software. The software development and deployment supply chain is quite complicated, with numerous threats along the source ?
SecureList
JUNE 16, 2021
Ferocious Kitten is an APT group that since at least 2015 has been targeting Persian-speaking individuals who appear to be based in Iran. Although it has been active for a long time, the group has mostly operated under the radar and has not been covered by security researchers to the best of our knowledge. It is only recently that it drew attention when a lure document was uploaded to VirusTotal and went public thanks to researchers on Twitter.
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Tech Republic Security
JUNE 16, 2021
A new IBM global report examining consumer behaviors finds an average of 15 new online accounts were created and 82% are reusing the same credentials some of the time.
Zero Day
JUNE 16, 2021
The exposure is another example of misconfiguration that can impact security.
CyberSecurity Insiders
JUNE 14, 2021
By Tony Goulding, cybersecurity evangelist, ThycoticCentrify. Employees have dozens of interactions with fellow team members, customers, and partners per day. Due to the remote work boom and accelerated digital transformation projects, many of those conversations and exchanges are online. While your team may think they know who is on the other end of that email or completing a task you have asked them to do, there is no guarantee.
The Hacker News
JUNE 14, 2021
Apple on Monday shipped out-of-band security patches to address two zero-day vulnerabilities in iOS 12.5.3 that it says are being actively exploited in the wild. The latest update, iOS 12.5.4, comes with three security fixes, including a memory corruption issue in the ASN.
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