No cyber. It’s literally a “cyber-free” week, as least far as the term relates to security things. Instead, I’m unboxing an armful of Insta360 goodies and...
Month: April 2023
Weekly Update 334
Did I really need to get a connected BBQ? No more than I needed to connect most of the other things in the house which is...
Pwned Passwords Adds NTLM Support to the Firehose
I think I’ve pretty much captured it all in the title of this post but as of about a day ago, Pwned Passwords now has full...
Weekly Update 333
03 February 2023 Getting everything out nice and early today so we can get out there in hit the wake park in the balmy “well over...
Weekly Update 332
Breaches all over the place today! Well, this past week, and there’s some debate as to whether one of them is a breach, a scrape or...
Weekly Update 331
Well and truly back into the swing of things in the new year, I think what I’ve found most satisfying this week is to sit down...
Pwned or Bot
It’s fascinating to see how creative people can get with breached data. Of course there’s all the nasty stuff (phishing, identity theft, spam), but there are...
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Clop Ransomware Exploits Zero-Day Vulnerability to Breach Crown Resorts
A zero-day vulnerability in Crown Resorts’ GoAnywhere secure file-sharing server has led to a data breach at the largest gambling and entertainment company in Australia. The...
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Warning! 14 Million Customers Impacted by Latitude Financial`s Data Breach
Latitude Financial Services, the recently breached Australian loan giant, announces that the number of affected people reaches 14 million. On March 16, 2023, Latitude disclosed they...
Heimdal® Announces Revolutionary Cybersecurity Platform
Heimdal® proudly announces the launch of a pioneering Threat Hunting & Intelligence platform – the Threat-hunting & Action Center. With this entry in the line-up, Heimdal...
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Think ransomware gangs won’t thrive this year? Think again, experts say
Welcome to The Cybersecurity 202! And greetings from (just outside of) San Francisco, one of my favorite few cities. As I type this, I have a...
Pro-Russian hackers target elected US officials supporting Ukraine
Enlarge / Locked out. Threat actors aligned with Russia and Belarus are targeting elected US officials supporting Ukraine, using attacks that attempt to compromise their email...
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New IcedID variants shift from bank fraud to malware delivery
New IcedID variants have been found without the usual online banking fraud functionality and instead focus on installing further malware on compromised systems. According to Proofpoint, these...
Is ChatGPT A Silver Bullet For Cybercriminals?
Executive Vice President at Proofpoint, overseeing global cybersecurity strategy. getty By now, you’ve heard of ChatGPT—or more likely, you’ve heard that it’s coming to take your...
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Security Awareness Training Needs to Change. Here’s Why.
Despite repeated urges from IT professionals to be wary of clicking on links in emails and opening attachments from strange messages, phishing is still wildly successful...
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Police pounce on ‘pompompurin’ – alleged mastermind of BreachForums
In Brief A man accused of being the head of one of the biggest criminal online souks, BreachForums, has been arrested in Peekskill, New York. Conor...
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Build resilience in a world of weaponized trust
Cybercrime, Identity and access Lucia Milică Stacy March 16, 2023 Today’s columnist, Lucia Milică Stacy of Proofpoint, writes that the SolarWinds, Kaseya, and Log4J attacks illustrate...
Analysts Spot a Wave of SVB-Related Cyber Fraud Striking the Business Sector
Right now, hackers are developing phishing campaigns that capitalize on the news of Silicon Valley Bank’s failure. SVB was the 16th-largest bank in the United States,...
Russia Calling? Scammers Target High-level Western Officials
An image of Alexei Stolyarov or Lexus (L) impersonating Leonid Volkov next to a picture of the real Volkov (R) for comparison Handout Text size A...
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GUEST ESSAY: AntiguaRecon – A call to train and promote the next generation of cyber warriors
By Adam Dennis Imagine being a young person who wants a career, of whatever type you can find, as a cybersecurity professional. Related: Up-skilling workers to...
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GUEST ESSAY — The rationale for pursuing a culture of cybersecurity– and a roadmap to get there
By Matthew T. Carr Organizations with strong cybersecurity cultures experience fewer cyberattacks and recover faster than others. Related: Deploying human sensors This results from emulating the...
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FIRESIDE CHAT: U.S. banking regulators call out APIs as embodying an attack surface full of risk
By Byron V. Acohido APIs have been a linchpin as far as accelerating digital transformation — but they’ve also exponentially expanded the attack surface of modern...
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GUEST ESSAY: Here’s why a big cybersecurity budget won’t necessarily keep your company safe
By Zac Amos The cybersecurity landscape is constantly changing. While it might seem like throwing more money into the IT fund or paying to hire cybersecurity...
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GUEST ESSAY: Scammers leverage social media, clever con games to carry out digital exploitation
By Collin McNulty One common misconception is that scammers usually possess a strong command of computer science and IT knowledge. Related: How Google, Facebook enable snooping...
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SHARED INTEL Q&A: Bi-partisan report calls for a self-sacrificing approach to cybersecurity
By Byron V. Acohido A new report from the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) lays out — in stark terms – the prominent cybersecurity risks of the...
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GUEST ESSAY: Could CISOs be on the verge of disproving the ‘security-as-a-cost-center’ fallacy?
By Jess Burn This year has kicked off with a string of high-profile layoffs — particularly in high tech — prompting organizations across all sectors to...
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GUEST ESSAY: Five stages to attain API security — and mitigate attack surface exposures
By Rakshith Rao APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) play a critical role in digital transformation by enabling communication and data exchange between different systems and applications. Related:...
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GUEST ESSAY: Why CISOs absolutely must take authentication secrets much more seriously
The IT world relies on digital authentication credentials, such as API keys, certificates, and tokens, to securely connect applications, services, and infrastructures. Related: The coming of...
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GUEST ESSAY: Testing principles to mitigate real-world risks to ‘SASE’ and ‘Zero Trust’ systems
By Sashi Jeyaretnam A new generation of security frameworks are gaining traction that are much better aligned to today’s cloud-centric, work-from-anywhere world. Related: The importance of...
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Cyberwarfare leaks show Russian army is adopting mindset of secret police
A consortium of media outlets have published a bombshell investigation about Russia’s cyber-capabilities, based on a rare leak of documents. The files come from NTC Vulkan,...