CyberSecure Specialist

22 Mar

Landmark UK-Israeli agreement to boost mutual cybersecurity development, tackle shared threats

Data Breaches, Malware, Social Engineering

The UK and Israeli governments have signed a landmark agreement to define bilateral relations between the two countries and boost mutual cybersecurity advancement until 2030. The 2030 Roadmap for Israel-UK Bilateral Relations is the culmination of efforts that began with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding in November 2021 to work more closely over the next decade on security, technology, trade, and defense. The Roadmap seeks to ensure the partnership remains modern and continues…

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21 Mar

Twitter ends free SMS 2FA: Here’s how you can protect your account now

Information

Twitter’s ditching of free text-message authentication doesn’t mean that you should forgo using 2FA. Instead, switch to another – and, indeed, better – 2FA option. Starting today, Twitter is disabling SMS-based two-factor authentication (2FA) for all but paying users following a decision that, not unlike other recent moves by the social media giant, has been met with controversy that has reverberated far beyond the Twitterverse. “While historically a popular form of 2FA, unfortunately, we have…

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21 Mar

Google Pixel phones had a serious data leakage bug – here’s what to do!

Information

by Paul Ducklin Even if you’ve never used one, you probably know what a VCR is (or was). Short for video cassette recorder, it was how we recorded and watched back videos at home in the days when digital video stored on hard disks was the absurdly expensive privilege of huge companies, typically TV stations. The cassettes were small plastic containers that held two reels and a long strip of magnetic recording tape – kind…

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21 Mar

Verosint Launches Account Fraud Detection and Prevention Platform

Information, News

Security startup 443ID, which previously focused on bringing open source intelligence (OSINT) to access management, is now refocusing its solution to tackle account fraud detection and prevention, and has changed its name to Verosint to better describe its new focus. It is launching what is technically version 2 of 443ID’s IAM platform, but is effectively version 1 of Verosint’s account fraud solution. “The previous product was focused on measuring the likelihood of risk to enable…

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21 Mar

Ferrari Data Breach

Attacks, Malware

All affected customers are recommended to change their login credentials on the Ferrari site to a unique and complex password. With the possibility of financial information leak, it is also recommended that customers monitor their banking information for unusual activity. It would also be prudent to enable credit monitoring services to further protect themselves from fraud. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ferrari-discloses-data-breach-after-receiving-ransom-demand/

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21 Mar

Go-based HinataBot Discovered by Akamai

Attacks, Malware

When Akamai benchmarked the botnet in 10-second HTTP and UDP attacks, the malware produced 20,430 requests with a combined size of 3.4 MB during the HTTP attack. There were 6,733 packets totaling 421 MB of data produced by the UDP deluge. The researchers calculated that the UDP flood might yield approximately 336 Gbps with 1,000 nodes and 3.3 Tbps with 10,000 nodes. While defending against a targeted DDoS attack can be difficult, if organizations mutually…

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21 Mar

Developed countries lag emerging markets in cybersecurity readiness

Data Breaches, Malware, Social Engineering

Organizations in developed countries are not as prepared for cybersecurity incidents compared to those in developing countries, according to Cisco’s Cybersecurity Readiness Index, released today. Countries that were found to be most mature in their overall cybersecurity readiness included Asia-Pacific countries such as Indonesia, with 39% of organizations in what Cisco considers a “mature stage” of security preparedness; Philippines and Thailand, both with 27% of organizations in the mature stage; and India, with 24% of…

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21 Mar

CISA and NSA Release Enduring Security Framework Guidance on Identity and Access Management

Attacks, Insights, Malware

As part of the Enduring Security Framework (ESF), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National Security Agency (NSA) has released Identity and Access Management Recommended Best Practices Guide for Administrators. These recommended best practices provide system administrators with actionable recommendations to better secure their systems from threats to Identity and Access Management (IAM). IAM—a framework of business processes, policies, and technologies that facilitate the management of digital identities—ensures that users only gain…

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21 Mar

CISA Releases Updated Cybersecurity Performance Goals

Attacks, Insights, Malware

Today, we published stakeholder-based updates to the Cybersecurity Performance Goals (CPGs). Originally released last October, the CPGs are voluntary practices that businesses and critical infrastructure owners can take to protect themselves against cyber threats. The CPGs have been reorganized, reordered and renumbered to align closely with NIST CSF functions (Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover) to help organizations more easily use the CPGs to prioritize investments as part of a broader cybersecurity program built around…

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21 Mar

9 attack surface discovery and management tools

Data Breaches, Malware, Social Engineering

Cyber asset attack surface management (CAASM) or external attack surface management (EASM) solutions are designed to quantify the attack surface and minimize and harden it. The goal with CAASM tools is to give the adversary as little information about the security posture of the business as possible while still maintaining critical business services. If you’ve ever watched a heist film, step one in executing the score of the century is casing the place: observing security…

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