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Plus, 7 ways to tell that you downloaded a sketchy app and 7 tips for staying safe from mobile security threats in the future You’ve just downloaded a new mobile game, cryptocurrency wallet, or fitness app, but something isn’t right. Your phone’s screen is swamped by annoying ads, the app is not doing what you would expect it do, and, God forbid, you found an unauthorized transaction on your bank account. Chances are good that…
Read Moreby Paul Ducklin Last week, Progress Software Corporation, which sells software and services for user interface development, devops, file management and more, alerted customers of its MOVEit Transfer and related MOVEit Cloud products about a critical vulnerability dubbed CVE-2023-34362. As the name suggests, MOVEit Transfer is a system that makes it easy to store and share files throughout a team, a department, a company, or even a supply chain. In its own words, “MOVEit provides…
Read Moreby Paul Ducklin Google’s latest Chrome update is out, and this time the company hasn’t minced its words about one of the two security patches it includes: Google is aware that an exploit for CVE-2023-3079 exists in the wild. There’s no two-degrees-of-separation verbiage, as we’ve often seen from Google before, to say that the company “is aware of reports” of an exploit. This time, it’s “we are aware of it all by ourselves”, which translates…
Read MoreOpen source password manager KeePass was updated over the weekend to patch a vulnerability allowing attackers to retrieve the cleartext master password from a memory dump. Tracked as CVE-2023-32784 and impacting KeePass 2.x versions, the issue is related to the custom-developed textbox used for password entry, which creates a leftover string in memory for each character that the user types. An attacker can use a KeePass process dump, a hibernation file, a swap file, or…
Read MoreAs I discussed in my previous column on Cybersecurity Futurism for Beginners, we are applying methods and approaches commonly used in future studies, especially horizon scanning and scenario planning, to explore future scenarios for how AI such as LLM’s may impact security operations going forward. To quickly rehash, horizon scanning is not strictly speaking about predicting the future. Rather, it’s about the early detection of weak signals to identify drivers of emerging trends. We’re not…
Read MoreJosh Lospinoso’s first cybersecurity startup was acquired in 2017 by Raytheon/Forcepoint.. His second, Shift5, works with the U.S. military, rail operators and airlines including JetBlue. A 2009 West Point grad and Rhodes Scholar, the 36-year-old former Army captain spent more than a decade authoring hacking tools for the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command. Lospinoso recently told a Senate Armed Services subcommittee how artificial intelligence can help protect military operations. The CEO/programmer discussed the subject with…
Read MoreGiven the reliance of today’s digital world on APIs and the fact that attacks targeting them continue to rise sharply, API security cannot be an afterthought. Given the increasing reliance of today’s digital world on APIs and the fact that cyberattacks targeting them continue to rise sharply, API security cannot be an afterthought. Here is how a poorly protected application programming interface creates security risks, what the main API security risks are, and what organizations…
Read MoreSecurityWeek is publishing a weekly cybersecurity roundup that provides a concise compilation of noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar. We provide a valuable summary of stories that may not warrant an entire article, but are nonetheless crucial for a comprehensive understanding of the cybersecurity landscape. Each week, we will curate and present a collection of noteworthy developments, ranging from the latest vulnerability discoveries and emerging attack techniques to significant policy changes and…
Read Moreby Paul Ducklin IT’S HARDER THAN YOU THINK No audio player below? Listen directly on Soundcloud. With Doug Aamoth and Paul Ducklin. Intro and outro music by Edith Mudge. You can listen to us on Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher and anywhere that good podcasts are found. Or just drop the URL of our RSS feed into your favourite podcatcher. READ THE TRANSCRIPT DOUG. Password manager cracks, login bugs, and Queen Elizabeth I versus…
Read Moreby Paul Ducklin Researchers at firmware and supply-chain security company Eclypsium claim to have found what they have rather dramatically dubbed a “backdoor” in hundreds of motherboard models from well-known hardware maker Gigabyte. In fact, Eclypsium’s headline refers to it not merely as a backdoor, but all in uppper case as a BACKDOOR. The good news is that this seems to be a legitimate feature that has been badly implemented, so it’s not a backdoor…
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