The Last Watchdog

JULY 25, 2024

Last week, CrowdStrike, one of the cybersecurity industry’s most reputable solution providers, inadvertently caused more disruption across the Internet than all the threat actors active online at the time. Related: Microsoft blames outage on EU A flawed update to CrowdStrike’s Falcon security software caused millions of computers running Microsoft Windows to display the infamous blue screen of death.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 25, 2024

Friday’s massive internet outage, caused by a mid-sized tech company called CrowdStrike, disrupted major airlines, hospitals, and banks. Nearly 7,000 flights were canceled. It took down 911 systems and factories, courthouses, and television stations. Tallying the total cost will take time. The outage affected more than 8.5 million Windows computers, and the cost will surely be in the billions of dollars ­easily matching the most costly previous cyberattacks, such as NotPetya.

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Joseph Steinberg

JULY 23, 2024

CyberSecurity Expert Witness and Board Member , Joseph Steinberg, will, tomorrow, Wednesday, July 24th, 2024, speak with the public as part of a panel of experts from Columbia University, discussing both the recent CrowdStrike-Microsoft cybersecurity incident, and the incident’s ongoing global impact. On July 19th, 2024, a faulty software update issued by the cybersecurity firm, CrowdStrike, took down over 8.5 million devices running Microsoft Windows, disrupting air travel, hospitals, gov

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Krebs on Security

JULY 26, 2024

Google says it recently fixed an authentication weakness that allowed crooks to circumvent the email verification required to create a Google Workspace account, and leverage that to impersonate a domain holder at third-party services that allow logins through Google’s “Sign in with Google” feature. Last week, KrebsOnSecurity heard from a reader who said they received a notice that their email address had been used to create a potentially malicious Workspace account that Google

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Lohrman on Security

JULY 21, 2024

Several recently released cyber industry reports show steady or growing ransomware numbers in 2024 so far, and impacts on business and government have never been greater.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 26, 2024

This isn’t good : On Thursday, researchers from security firm Binarly revealed that Secure Boot is completely compromised on more than 200 device models sold by Acer, Dell, Gigabyte, Intel, and Supermicro. The cause: a cryptographic key underpinning Secure Boot on those models that was compromised in 2022. In a public GitHub repository committed in December of that year, someone working for multiple US-based device manufacturers published what’s known as a platform key, the cryptogra

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Krebs on Security

JULY 23, 2024

The Chinese company in charge of handing out domain names ending in “ top ” has been given until mid-August 2024 to show that it has put in place systems for managing phishing reports and suspending abusive domains, or else forfeit its license to sell domains. The warning comes amid the release of new findings that.top was the most common suffix in phishing websites over the past year, second only to domains ending in “ com.” Image: Shutterstock.

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Tech Republic Security

JULY 23, 2024

Australia is among the APAC governments forging closer ties with the private sector due to the realisation that the public sector can no longer fight the increase in cyber criminals alone.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 24, 2024

Supposedly the DHS has these : The robot, called “NEO,” is a modified version of the “Quadruped Unmanned Ground Vehicle” (Q-UGV) sold to law enforcement by a company called Ghost Robotics. Benjamine Huffman, the director of DHS’s Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers (FLETC), told police at the 2024 Border Security Expo in Texas that DHS is increasingly worried about criminals setting “booby traps” with internet of things and smart home devices, and t

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Troy Hunt

JULY 21, 2024

It feels weird to be writing anything right now that isn't somehow related to Friday's CrowdStrike incident, but given I recorded this video just a few hours before all hell broke loose, it'll have to wait until next week. This week, the issue that really has me worked up is data breach victim notification or more specifically, lack thereof.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 24, 2024

Corporate incompetence: Beleaguered security firm issues initial post-mortem on Friday’s faux pas. The post CrowdStrike Admits it Doesn’t ‘Canary’ Test all Updates appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Tech Republic Security

JULY 24, 2024

The hybrid multicloud strategies that many Australian enterprises have adopted over the last decade could be made more complex by new AI applications. The only solutions could be rationalisation or an abstraction layer.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 25, 2024

I am the Chief of Security Architecture at Inrupt, Inc. , the company that is commercializing Tim Berners-Lee’s Solid open W3C standard for distributed data ownership. This week, we announced a digital wallet based on the Solid architecture. Details are here , but basically a digital wallet is a repository for personal data and documents. Right now, there are hundreds of different wallets, but no standard.

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Security Affairs

JULY 26, 2024

The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) released BIND security updates that fixed several remotely exploitable DoS bugs in the DNS software suite. The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) released security updates for BIND that address DoS vulnerabilities that could be remotely exploited. An attacker can exploit these vulnerabilities to disrupt DNS services.

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The Hacker News

JULY 20, 2024

Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, which is facing the heat for causing worldwide IT disruptions by pushing out a flawed update to Windows devices, is now warning that threat actors are exploiting the situation to distribute Remcos RAT to its customers in Latin America under the guise of a providing a hotfix. The attack chains involve distributing a ZIP archive file named "crowdstrike-hotfix.

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Tech Republic Security

JULY 24, 2024

Remind employees to be wary of fake apps and too-good-to-be-true streaming options on the eve of the Games.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 22, 2024

This is a fantastic video. It’s an Iranian spider-tailed horned viper ( Pseudocerastes urarachnoides ). Its tail looks like a spider, which the snake uses to fool passing birds looking for a meal.

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2024

A critical flaw in some versions of Docker Engine can be exploited to bypass authorization plugins (AuthZ) under specific circumstances. A vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-41110 (CVSS score of 10.0), in certain versions of Docker Engine can allow an attacker to bypass authorization plugins (AuthZ) under specific circumstances. “An attacker could exploit a bypass using an API request with Content-Length set to 0, causing the Docker daemon to forward the request without the body to the Aut

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Bleeping Computer

JULY 25, 2024

Hundreds of UEFI products from 10 vendors are susceptible to compromise due to a critical firmware supply-chain issue known as PKfail, which allows attackers to bypass Secure Boot and install malware. [.

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Tech Republic Security

JULY 24, 2024

Discover whether NordVPN’s better speeds and extra features are worth the cost, or if you’ll be satisfied with PIA VPN’s more affordable pricing.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 23, 2024

It’s heavily redacted , but still interesting. Many more ODNI documents here.

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2024

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Adobe Commerce and Magento, SolarWinds Serv-U, and VMware vCenter Server bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the following vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog : CVE-2024-34102 Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference (XXE) Vulnerability CVE-2024-28995 SolarW

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Bleeping Computer

JULY 26, 2024

Microsoft has confirmed that July's security updates break remote desktop connections in organizations where Windows servers are configured to use the legacy RPC over HTTP protocol in the Remote Desktop Gateway. [.

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Tech Republic Security

JULY 23, 2024

Bitwarden’s affordability and extensive MFA options give it the slight edge over Dashlane’s uber-polished password management experience. Read more below.

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WIRED Threat Level

JULY 24, 2024

A former Google engineer has built a search engine, WebXray, that aims to find illicit online data collection and tracking—with the goal of becoming “the Henry Ford of tech lawsuits.

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2024

The CVE-2024-21412 flaw in the Microsoft Defender SmartScreen has been exploited to deliver information stealers such as ACR Stealer, Lumma, and Meduza. Fortinet FortiGuard Labs researchers observed a malware campaign exploiting the vulnerability CVE-2024-21412 (CVSS score: 8.1) to spread information stealer, such as ACR Stealer, Lumma , and Meduza.

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Bleeping Computer

JULY 20, 2024

Microsoft says the faulty CrowdStrike Falcon update, which caused widespread outages by crashing Windows systems worldwide, also resulted in Windows 365 Cloud PCs getting stuck in reboot loops, rendering them unusable. [.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 23, 2024

Regulatory capture by stealth? Google changes its mind about third-party tracking cookies—we’re stuck with them for the foreseeable. The post EFF Angry as Google Keeps 3rd-Party Cookies in Chrome appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 25, 2024

Some Windows users may see a BitLocker Recovery screen after applying the Microsoft patch Tuesday updates. BitLocker is a Windows security feature that encrypts entire drives. It prevents someone that has obtained a stolen or lost device from reading the files stored on that drive. Unfortunately, though, Microsoft launched an update this month that has caused problems for some Windows systems.

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2024

Terrorist groups are increasingly using cyberspace and digital communication channels to plan and execute attacks. Yesterday Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray expressed growing concerns over the potential for a coordinated foreign terrorist attack in the United States. During his testimony to the House Oversight Committee, Mr.

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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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