Continuous Monitoring and Protection
This list has always been kept away from the public eye. Now that it has been posted publicly and released, the U.S. government and TSA have all began investigation into the leak and into the threat actor behind the leak. The threat actor took their attack one step further by claiming to have pivoted from the AWS server into gaining access to more critical systems that would allow them to delay or cancel flights. Air…
Read MoreTo protect against ransomware attacks, organizations should:• Regularly back up data, air gap, and password protect backup copies offline.• Ensure copies of critical data are not accessible for modification or deletion• Implement network segmentation.• Implement a recovery plan to maintain and retain multiple copies of sensitive or proprietary data and servers in a physically separate, segmented, secure location.• Install updates/patch operating systems, software, and firmware as soon as possible.• Implement monitoring of security events on…
Read MoreThe VMware patch for vRealize is available now, and system administrators should update the software as soon as possible. Ensuring that vRealize is not exposed to the internet is also an important factor to consider. Below are the version details for the software patch: • VMware vRealize Log Insight◦ Fixed version: 8.10.2• VMware Cloud Foundation (VMware vRealize Log Insight)◦ Fixed Version: KB90668IOCs for potential exploitation of this vulnerability can be found here: https://www.horizon3.ai/vmware-vrealize-cve-2022-31706-iocs/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/researchers-to-release-vmware-vrealize-log-rce-exploit-patch-now/
Read Moreby Paul Ducklin Samba, simply put, is a super-useful, mega-popular, open-source reimplementation of the networking protocols used in Microsoft Windows, and its historical importance in internetworking (connecting two different sorts of network together) cannot be underestimated. In the late 1990s, Microsoft networking shed its opaque, proprietary nature and became an open standard known as CIFS, short for common internet file system. But there was nothing “common” or “open” about it in the early 1990s, when…
Read Moreby Paul Ducklin Another day, another access-token-based database breach. This time, the victim (and in some ways, of course, also the culprit) is Microsoft’s GitHub business. GitHub claims that it spotted the breach quickly, the day after it happened, but by then the damage had been done: On December 6, 2022, repositories from our atom, desktop, and other deprecated GitHub-owned organizations were cloned by a compromised Personal Access Token (PAT) associated with a machine account.…
Read MoreThe growth of the internet of things (IoT) and connected devices are the biggest contributing factors to organizations’ expanding attack surfaces. That’s according to a new report from Cisco AppDynamics, which revealed that 89% of global IT professionals believe their organization has experienced an expansion in its attack surface over the last two years. The Shift to a Security Approach for the Full Application Stack report surveyed 1,150 IT professionals in organizations across a range…
Read MoreGuardz, a Tel Aviv-based startup promising a broad range of out-of-the-box cybersecurity solutions for small and medium-size businesses (SMBs), has announced both a successful $10 million round of seed funding and the broad availability of its flagship product. The premise of the company’s main offering is tight API integration with Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. Guardz automatically enrolls all user accounts upon activation, and monitors risk posture, performs threat detection on all monitored accounts and…
Read MoreAbout SecurityWeek Cyber Insights | At the end of 2022, SecurityWeek liaised with more than 300 cybersecurity experts from over 100 different organizations to gain insight into the security issues of today – and how these issues might evolve during 2023 and beyond. The result is more than a dozen features on subjects ranging from AI, quantum encryption, and attack surface management to venture capital, regulations, and criminal gangs. SecurityWeek Cyber Insights 2023 | Attack Surface Management…
Read MoreOpen-source based data governance and security SaaS provider Privacera on Tuesday said that it was integrating with Dremio’s open lakehouse to aid enterprise customers with data governance and data security. A data lakehouse is a data architecture that offers both storage and analytics capabilities, in contrast to data lakes, which store data in native format, and data warehouses, which store structured data (often in SQL format). The native integration between Privacera and Dremio, which comes…
Read MoreIdentity verification firm Trulioo on Tuesday launched a new global identity platform for “person” and “business” verification. Trulioo so far sold multiple identity products, each operating in their own silos. Their products and services range from person and business verification, to no-code workflow building, low-code integrations, and anti-fraud measures. The new platform combines all these solutions into a single contract for clients who can use the platform to access information matching, identity document verification, proof of…
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