On Friday DEF CON security pulled Dmitry Grinberg, a person responsible for much of the code running on this year’s electronic conference badge, off stage while he was originally scheduled to talk about the badge’s creation. The move came as Grinberg and the company responsible for manufacturing the…
July 31 (Reuters) - CrowdStrike (CRWD.O), opens new tab has been sued by shareholders who said the cybersecurity company defrauded them by concealing how its inadequate software testing could cause th
The Heritage Foundation’s nearly 1,000-page Project 2025 report is what the conservative DC-based think tank hails as a game plan for Donald Trump to follow in running the US government if he wins in November. Among the thirty-four authors of the document, more than half are appointees and staff…
Stu Sjouwerman | Jul 23, 2024 Incident Report Summary: Insider Threat First of all: No illegal access was gained, and no data was lost, compromised, or exfiltrated on any KnowBe4 systems. This is not a data breach notification, there was none. See it as an organizational learning moment I am sharing…
FACEPALM GOES HERE Secure Boot is completely broken on 200+ models from 5 big device makers Keys were labeled "DO NOT TRUST." Nearly 500 device models use them anyway. Dan Goodin – Jul 25, 2024 2:00 pm | 201 Credit: sasha85ru | Getty Imates Credit: sasha85ru | Getty Imates Story text Size Width *…
Threat actors are chaining together ServiceNow flaws using publicly available exploits to breach government agencies and private firms in data theft attacks. This malicious activity was reported by Resecurity, which, after monitoring it for a week, identified multiple victims, including government…
The cybersecurity firm Wiz has turned down a $23bn (£18bn) takeover bid from Google’s parent, Alphabet, spurning what would have been the tech company’s biggest ever acquisition and seeking a stock market flotation instead. Alphabet had been in talks with Wiz, founded by alumni of Israel’s…
Bitdefender Enterprise July 02, 2024 The cybersecurity industry is facing significant challenges these days. According to the 2024 Cybersecurity Assessment industry report, nearly two-thirds of respondents plan to look for a new job in the next 12 months—a 25% increase from the previous year. Alert…
CocoaPods, an open-source dependency manager used in over three million applications coded in Swift and Objective-C, left thousands of packages exposed and ready for takeover for nearly a decade – thereby creating opportunities for supply chain attacks on iOS and macOS apps, according to security…
Introduction & Overview Ollama is one of the most popular open-source projects for running AI Models, with over 70k stars on GitHub and hundreds of thousands of monthly pulls on Docker Hub. Inspired by Docker, Ollama aims to simplify the process of packaging and deploying AI models. Wiz Research…
We have Mark Dowd on, founder of Aziumuth Security and one of the authors of The Art of Software Security Assessment, to talk about the market for zero day vulnerabilities, and how mitigations affect monetizing offensive security work. Links: Azimuth Security Vigilant Labs Mark’s BlueHat Keynote…
A 22-year-old man from the United Kingdom arrested this week in Spain is allegedly the ringleader of Scattered Spider, a cybercrime group suspected of hacking into Twilio, LastPass, DoorDash, Mailchimp, and nearly 130 other organizations over the past two years. The Spanish daily Murcia Today…
New Hampshire Public Radio leaders say they’re working with cybersecurity experts to figure out the extent of data potentially stolen in a cybersecurity attack the outlet announced this week. Chief Fi
U.S. officials recently warned about pro-Russian hackers targeting poorly secured water systems around the country. While the U.S. was issuing this notice, the Russian government was advancing its own cyber measure: a final-stage bill to legalize white hat hacking. White hat hacking, sometimes…
WASHINGTON, May 30 (Reuters) - - An unidentified hacking group launched a massive cyberattack on a telecommunications company in the U.S. heartland late last year that disabled hundreds of thousands o
Serial tech and digital privacy critic Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) laid into UnitedHealth Group's (UHG) CEO for appointing a CISO Wyden deemed "unqualified"– a decision he claims likely led to its ransom
Google has released a new emergency security update to address the eighth zero-day vulnerability in Chrome browser confirmed to be actively exploited in the wild. The security issue was discovered int
Google has released a security update for the Chrome browser to fix the fifth zero-day vulnerability exploited in the wild since the start of the year. The high-severity issue tracked as CVE-2024-467
Earlier this week, the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced that 68 tech companies — notably including heavyweights such as Google and Microsoft — signed the agency’s volunt
Every year Verizon publishes the best hope we have of scouring real world evidence of attacks and their impacts in the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR). I, the lucky daedric prince of
Security researchers have uncovered a "credible" takeover attempt targeting the OpenJS Foundation in a manner that evokes similarities to the recently uncovered incident aimed at the open-source XZ Ut
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said today it is investigating a breach at business intelligence company Sisense, whose products are designed to allow companies to vie
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Internet Backdoor in a string of binary code in a shape of an eye. Getty Images Researchers have found a malicious backdoor in a compression tool that made its way into widely used Linux distributions
The scourge of software supply chain attacks—an increasingly common hacking technique that hides malicious code in a widely used legitimate program—can take many forms. Hackers can penetrate an update
Cybersecurity Roundup: January 30, 2024 18 hours ago This week: the notorious NSA Furby memo (“NSA FURBIE ALERT”) is finally made public; Google and Apple rolling out privacy-threatening AI into messa
Yesterday I provided testimony to Congress about the CTI League and addressed the allegations that it is somehow part of a government censorship apparatus. Part of that testimony is in our statement l
WASHINGTON, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Unidentified governments are surveilling smartphone users via their apps' push notifications, a U.S. senator warned on Wednesday. In a letter to the Department of Justice
8 min read·2 days ago How can you know how many security jobs there are if there’s no real statistical data available? https://imgflip.com/i/87fumc Millions of information security jobs As I wrote in
GPTs & Assistants API - Code Interpreter Data Exfiltration evren's blog GPTs and Assistants API: Data Exfiltration and Backdoor Risks in Code Interpreter OpenAI DevDay, in San Francisco. “You can buil
Security and data analytics company Sumo Logic disclosed a security breach after discovering that its AWS (Amazon Web Services) account was compromised last week. The company detected evidence of the
Atlassian reassessed the severity rating of the recent improper authorization vulnerability in Confluence Data Center and Server, raising the CVSS score from 9.1 to a maximum of 10. The company overha
Microsoft has made fresh commitments to harden the security of its software and cloud services after a year in which numerous members of the global infosec community criticized the company's tech defe
The great thing about the security industry is it’s made up of a variety of roles and people from many backgrounds, disciplines, skill sets and lived experiences. Let’s take a look at some of these -
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Written by Gary DeMercurio of Caliber Security Partners, reposted from LinkedIn Out of 1,000 employees, statistically, 162 of them will allow an attacker into your company. About a week ago, someone s
Report this article Mark Curphey Co-Founder Crash Override Published Oct 26, 2023 + Follow I am an old git. I am 54. Yes, I do look much younger, thanks for noticing. If you are an old git like me, th
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Okta says attackers accessed files containing cookies and session tokens uploaded by customers to its support management system after breaching it using stolen…
Enlarge 1Password 1Password, a password manager used by millions of people and more than 100,000 businesses, said it detected suspicious activity on a company account provided by Okta, the identity an
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