The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2023

Here’s what you should know about the risks, what aviation is doing to address those risks, and how to overcome them. It is difficult to deny that cyberthreats are a risk to planes. Risks delineated Still, there have been many other incidents since. Fortunately, there are ways to address the risks.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Ramachandran Vivek Ramachandran , Founder & CEO of SquareX , warned about the mounting risks: “Browser extensions are a blind spot for EDR/XDR and SWGs have no way to infer their presence. Singapore, Oct. SquareX’s research team publicly demonstrated rogue extensions built on MV3.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 25, 2024

If you are affected by this faulty update, you will be presented with a screen similar to this one when you boot the system. We don’t just report on threats—we remove them Cybersecurity risks should never spread beyond a headline. BitLocker recovery screen On the screen, you’re asked to Enter the recovery key for this drive.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 12, 2024

Interesting paper: “ Generative AI Misuse: A Taxonomy of Tactics and Insights from Real-World Data “: Generative, multimodal artificial intelligence (GenAI) offers transformative potential across industries, but its misuse poses significant risks.

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Joseph Steinberg

AUGUST 16, 2021

Even if major essential service providers were to perfect their own cybersecurity operations, large numbers of smaller providers – sometimes functioning on just municipal scales – can still pose serious risks to life, health, safety, and property if they are not adequately protected against cyber threats.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 4, 2024

China's growing presence in the global market for LiDAR, a remote sensing technology widely used in defense and commercial system, presents a national security risk for the United States, which already is dealing with intrusions into critical infrastructure networks by China-backed threat groups, according to a reporte.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 3, 2024

It’s a serious one : The vulnerability, which is a signal handler race condition in OpenSSH’s server (sshd), allows unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) as root on glibc-based Linux systems; that presents a significant security risk.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 10, 2022

In a follow-up work, called “ MetaGuard ,” we present a promising solution to our VR data privacy woes. Instead, it is a first step towards solving a dangerous technological disparity: despite posing an unprecedented degree of privacy risk, VR currently lacks even the most basic privacy tools.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 3, 2023

With more and more people working remotely, unsecured home or public WiFi networks represent a security risk not only to individuals but to their companies as well. Since many people are now working from home at least partially, vulnerabilities at home are vulnerabilities at work, and threaten to put a company’s data at risk.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 17, 2024

The event not only showcases athletic prowess but also presents a significant challenge for cybersecurity professionals. The report identifies a range of risks including cyberattacks targeting critical infrastructure, event management systems, and personal data of athletes and attendees.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 13, 2021

The real risk isn’t that AI-generated phishing emails are as good as human-generated ones, it’s that they can be generated at much greater scale. Defcon presentation and slides. Combine it with voice and video synthesis, and you have some pretty scary scenarios. Another news article.

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Duo's Security Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Add to this, the risks of weak authentication factors such as SMS one-time passcodes and dormant or inactive accounts. This changes how we think about buying. ” - Financial Services Customer All this points to a clear and present need for a defense-in-depth approach to mitigate breaches due to weak identity security posture.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 2, 2020

On the face of it, all of us care very much about the health risks to those we know and don’t know. Though we rarely or acknowledge it, this presumed future world is the horizon towards which everything we do in the present is oriented. Our present relations to people and things are, in this deep way, future-oriented.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 18, 2024

These jets, which are wholly unsuited for countering proliferated low-cost enemy drones in the air littoral, present enormous opportunity costs for the service as a whole. Today, the same mission can be performed by far less expensive drones—without putting any pilots at risk. Hammes estimated the following.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 9, 2023

The example in the presentation is a kidnapper. He is based in a rural area, so he can’t risk making his ransom calls from that area. Instead, he drives to an urban area to make those calls. He either uses a burner phone or a pay phone, so he can’t be identified that way.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 30, 2020

However, for EMV’s security protections to work, the back-end systems deployed by card-issuing financial institutions are supposed to check that when a chip card is dipped into a chip reader, only the iCVV is presented; and conversely, that only the CVV is presented when the card is swiped.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 8, 2024

She serves on the board of several technology companies and also happens to be steeped in cyber risk governance. Thus, presenting a sky-is-falling scenario to justify a fatter security budget, “does not resonate at the board level,” she said in her talk. Pigueros: Compliance is not going to fix all the security risks.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 24, 2024

Murky consent should be subject to extensive regulatory oversight with an ever-present risk that it could be deemed invalid. I propose four duties to achieve this end: (1) duty to obtain consent appropriately; (2) duty to avoid thwarting reasonable expectations; (3) duty of loyalty; and (4) duty to avoid unreasonable risk.

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Joseph Steinberg

JUNE 10, 2022

Additionally, while VMware’s customers obviously invest in areas of cybersecurity related to VMware’s fields of activity, many of Gillis’ observations were both clearly vendor neutral and not limited to VMware’s areas of activity, either applying or not applying to VMware’s competitors as much as they did to VMware. Sampling No Longer Works.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 2, 2022

Third-Party Risk Management ( TPRM ) has been around since the mid-1990s – and has become something of an auditing nightmare. Related: A call to share risk assessments. This is because third-party risk has become a huge problem for enterprises in the digital age. Cyber risks profiling. This alone was a huge improvement.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 15, 2023

In an increasingly interconnected world, the evolution of the automotive industry presents an exciting yet daunting prospect. Related: Privacy rules for vehicles As vehicles continue to offer modern features such as app-to-car connectivity, remote control access, and driver assistance software, a huge risk lurks in the shadows.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 27, 2022

Underlying all of this optimism, however, is the ever-present threat of cyberattack. Throughout this period, the risk level of the acquirer is much higher than the acquired company, creating a major cybersecurity gap as they merge their tech stack and security tools together. They can be divided into two categories: Pre-Close Risks.

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Marketing Data privacy Risk Accountability 265

Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 15, 2020

I'm what you'd call "network proud" and the same principle applies to how I manage my IP things: That's just a slice of my Ubiquiti network map which presently has 91 IP addresses on it between clients and network devices. You walk in there and everything is in its place, nice and clean without clutter.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 19, 2023

Which, for enterprising individuals of ill-repute, presented an opportunity : Ticketmaster, the exclusive ticket seller for the tour, sold out numerous shows within minutes, leaving many Hannah Montana fans out in the cold. The best illustration I can give is how Stripe defines risk by assessing a multitude of fraud factors.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The vulnerability Context Security discovered meant exposing the Wi-Fi credentials of the network the device was attached to, which is significant because it demonstrates that IoT vulnerabilities can put other devices on the network at risk as well. Are these examples actually risks in IoT?

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 27, 2024

I spent longer than I expected talking about Trello this week, in part because I don't feel the narrative they presented properly acknowledges their responsibility for the incident and in part because I think the impact of scraping in general is misunderstood.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 14, 2023

Instead, users are presented with a prompt asking if they wish to trust a connected computer before any data transfer can take place. But Markus said juice jacking is still a risk because it is far easier and cheaper these days for would-be attackers to source and build the necessary equipment.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The primary objective of these services is risk reduction. Policy violations by employees Most organizations focus on external threats; however, policy violations pose a major risk , with 51% of SMB incidents and 43% of enterprise incidents involving IT security policy violations caused by employees.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

But connecting IT and OT to facilitate modern power, a hitherto verboten practice until recently, presents challenges not least of which is cybersecurity. Serious risks occur when OT systems with very limited cybersecurity protections which control the grid are "connected" even to private isolated networks.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 19, 2022

Today, there are two major types of common CMS platforms: •The older “traditional” or “monolithic” CMS platforms include a content repository (usually a multimedia database), the administrative console (where content is added and categorized), the presentation system (which makes nice-looking pages), and the search engine. Gierlinger.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

That last one in particularly I felt was really important as time and time again, I hear these irrational statements from people about the perceived "risks" of biometrics and in particular, the belief that you can somehow how representations of your body parts "stolen" in such a way that they can circumvent modern day auth controls.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Apple drops its lawsuit against commercial spyware vendor NSO Group, due to the risk of “threat intelligence” information exposure. Apple is seeking to drop its lawsuit against Israeli spyware company NSO Group , citing the risk of “threat intelligence” information exposure. ” continues the court filing.

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The Hacker News

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

However, adopting cloud technologies into your infrastructure presents various cybersecurity risks and The cloud offers scalability, adaptability, and accessibility, enabling businesses to achieve sustainable growth.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Thales Introduces Data Risk Intelligence, Bringing Organizations Risk Profile Front and Center madhav Tue, 12/03/2024 - 09:32 When Thales finalized the acquisition of Imperva in January 2024, our aim was clear: to empower organizations to protect data and secure all paths to it. Want to dive deeper?

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Penetration Testing

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

A patched vulnerability within Apple’s Shortcuts automation framework presents a substantial risk to macOS and iOS devices.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 25, 2024

In response, scammers built link farms and spammed comment sections, falsely presenting their trashy pages as authoritative. They’ll hire LLMOs to ensure that LLM outputs present their preferred slant, their handpicked facts, their favored conclusions.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 4, 2024

VOC enables teams to address the vulnerabilities that present the greatest risk to their specific attack surface before they can be exploited. The post Smashing Silos With a Vulnerability Operations Center (VOC) appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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