A recent wave of spear-phishing campaigns leveraged weaponized Windows 11 Alpha-themed Word documents with Visual Basic macros to drop malicious payloads, including a JavaScript implant, against...
Day: September 3, 2021
DARKreading – CISA Launches JCDC, the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative
“We can’t do this alone,” the new CISA director told attendees in a keynote at Black Hat USA today. BLACK HAT USA 2021 – Las Vegas – Jen Easterly, the...
welivesecurity – Twitter introduces new feature to automatically block abusive behavior
Dubbed Safety Mode, the feature will temporarily block authors of offensive tweets from being able to contact or follow users. Twitter has unveiled a new feature...
nakedsecurity – Big bad decryption bug in OpenSSL – but no cause for alarm
The well-known and widely-used encryption library OpenSSL released a security patch earlier this week. Annoyingly for those who like lean, modern, sans serif typefaces, the new version is OpenSSL...
nakedsecurity – Skimming the CREAM – recursive withdrawals loot $13M in cryptocash
You must have had that happy feeling (happiest of all when it’s still a day or two to payday and you know that your balance is...
blogs.cisco – What you see is what you get … to protect
In my first nearly 90 days since joining Cisco, I’ve spoken with customers from around the world. And one thing that I continue to hear? The shift to a more distributed workforce is...
C-Level Executives Should Stay Away From These 6 Cybersecurity Myths
The C-suite in any organisation is entrusted with the responsibility of spearheading innovation, progress, and company direction. Additionally, C-level executives hold a greater responsibility in maintaining...