Continuous Monitoring and Protection
Anyone that is a customer of FuboTV should be monitoring for any change in account activity including password or email changes. They should also be on the lookout for an update from FuboTV regarding what, if any, information was stolen and how to mitigate the attack from a customer standpoint. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fubotv-says-world-cup-streaming-outage-caused-by-a-cyberattack/?&web_view=true
Read MoreGemini advises its customers to rely on strong authentication methods and recommends activating two-factor authentication (2FA) protection and/or the use of hardware security keys to access their accounts. The company also provides the steps necessary for changing the email address associated with the Gemini account. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-leak-personal-info-allegedly-stolen-from-57m-gemini-users/
Read MoreHoliday travel is back with a vengeance this year. Set yourself up for a cyber-safe and hassle-free trip with our checklist. You’ve successfully avoided all sorts of shopping scams while hunting for bargains this holiday season, and now the time has come to drive, fly or take a train home for Christmas. You’re taking time off to relax, but it is certainly not the time to put cybersecurity on the back burner – cybercrime knows…
Read MoreThe time has come for your child to receive their first smartphone. Before handing it over, however, make sure to help them use their new gadget safely and responsibly. Choosing the right holiday gift(s) for your children can be nerve-racking, perhaps doubly so if you’re choosing it for your pre-teen. It’s at that age when many kids feel they’re too old for toys and start insisting they need their first smartphone. Indeed, at that age,…
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Read MoreOriginal release date: December 16, 2022 The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Food and Drug Administration Office of Criminal Investigations (FDA OCI), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) have released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) detailing recently observed incidents of criminal actors using business email compromise (BEC) to steal shipments of food products and ingredients valued at hundreds of thousands of dollars. The joint CSA analyzes the common tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs)…
Read MoreThe US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) this week recommended that IT professionals replace the SHA-1 cryptographic algorithm with newer, more secure ones. The first widely used method of securing electronic information and in use since 1995, SHA-1 is a slightly modified version of SHA, or ‘secure hash algorithm’, the very first standardized hash function. According to NIST, SHA-1 ‘has reached the end of its useful life’, given that the high computing capabilities…
Read MoreMicrosoft-owned code hosting platform GitHub this week announced multiple security improvements, including free secret scanning for public repositories and mandatory two-factor authentication (2FA) for developers and contributors. The secret scanning program is meant to help developers and organizations identify exposed secrets and credentials in their code. In 2022, it helped identify 1.7 million potential secrets exposed in public repositories. “Secret scanning alerts notify you directly about leaked secrets in your code. We’ll still notify our…
Read MoreMean time to resolve (MTTR) isn’t a viable metric for measuring the reliability or security of complex software systems and should be replaced by other, more trustworthy options. That’s according to a new report from Verica which argued that the use of MTTR to gauge software network failures and outages is not appropriate, partly due to the distribution of duration data and because failures in such systems don’t arrive uniformly over time. Site reliability engineering…
Read MoreOriginal release date: December 15, 2022 CISA has released forty-one (41) Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on 15 December 2022. These advisories provide timely information about current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits surrounding ICS. CISA encourages users and administrators to review the newly released ICS advisories for technical details and mitigations: ICSA-22-349-01 Prosys OPC UA Simulation ICSA-22-349-02 Siemens SCALANCE X-200RNA Switch Devices ICSA-22-349-03 Siemens Multiple Denial of Service Vulnerabilities in Industrial Products ICSA-22-349-04 Siemens Multiple…
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