By Waqas About to pay your taxes? Watch out for tax return phishing and malware campaigns targeting individual taxpayers and businesses. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Microsoft Warns of New Tax Returns Phishing Scams Targeting…
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Keeper Security Bolsters Administrative Control Over Passwords and Privileged Access Management With UI Updates and Streamlined Onboarding
Today, Keeper Security, the leading provider of zero-trust and zero-knowledge cybersecurity software protecting passwords, passkeys, privileged access, secrets and remote connections, has announced significant improvements to its Admin Console User Interface (UI) and a new onboarding experience, reinforcing its commitment…
Q4 2023 Cyber Attacks Statistics
In Q4 2023, cyber attack events decreased by 7.1% to 1029 compared to the previous quarter. Cybercrime remains the primary motive, although slightly reduced, while malware tops attack techniques, increasing from the last quarter. Multiple industries and healthcare are the…
Disinformation and Elections: EFF and ARTICLE 19 Submit Key Recommendations to EU Commission
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> Global Elections and Platform Responsibility This year is a major one for elections around the world, with pivotal races in the U.S., the UK, the European Union,…
UK council won’t say whether two-week ‘cyber incident’ impacted resident data
Security experts insist ransomware is involved but Leicester zips its lips Leicester City Council continues to battle a suspected ransomware attack while keeping schtum about the key details.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read the…
EPA and White House Send Water Industry Cybersecurity Warning
The Biden administration issues a cybersecurity call to action for the US water industry amid flood of cyber threats targeting essential systems This directive (see the official guidance) comes in the wake of revelations that utilities are facing increasingly sophisticated…
Public AI as an Alternative to Corporate AI
This mini-essay was my contribution to a round table on Power and Governance in the Age of AI. It’s nothing I haven’t said here before, but for anyone who hasn’t read my longer essays on the topic, it’s a shorter…
LogicGate introduces cyber and operational risk suite offerings
LogicGate announces the new Cyber Risk Suite and Operational Risk Suite offerings, providing enterprises with purpose-built integrated solutions to efficiently and effectively optimize their Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and cyber risk programs. Each suite includes applications, integrations, licenses, and services…
GitHub Launches AI-Powered Autofix Tool to Assist Devs in Patching Security Flaws
GitHub on Wednesday announced that it’s making available a feature called code scanning autofix in public beta for all Advanced Security customers to provide targeted recommendations in an effort to avoid introducing new security issues. “Powered by GitHub Copilot and CodeQL, code scanning autofix covers…
How to Accelerate Vendor Risk Assessments in the Age of SaaS Sprawl
In today’s digital-first business environment dominated by SaaS applications, organizations increasingly depend on third-party vendors for essential cloud services and software solutions. As more vendors and services are added to the mix, the complexity and potential vulnerabilities within the SaaS supply…
North Korea’s Kimsuky Group Equipped to Exploit Windows Help files
Cybersecurity experts have uncovered a sophisticated cyber espionage campaign orchestrated by the North Korean threat actor group Kimsuky, Black Banshee, or Thallium. This group, notorious for its intelligence-gathering missions, has been active since at least 2012. It has primarily targeted…
White House Warns Of Cyberattacks On US Water Infrastructure
Foreign hackers are targetting US water and sewage systems United States warns, pointing finger at Iran and China This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: White House Warns Of Cyberattacks On US Water Infrastructure
New Application-Layer Loop DoS Attack – 300,000 Online Systems At Risk
Denial-of-service (DoS) attacks are usually exploited by hackers to interrupt regular network and website functioning, with motives of making money or for political reasons or simply to create a mess. The websites or networks can be made unavailable through the…
19 million plaintext passwords exposed by incorrectly configured Firebase instances
Researchers scanned the internet for incorrectly configured Firebase instances and what they found was frightening. This article has been indexed from Malwarebytes Read the original article: 19 million plaintext passwords exposed by incorrectly configured Firebase instances
Kyndryl partners with Cloudflare to help enterprises migrate to next-generation networks
Kyndryl and Cloudflare announced a Global Strategic Alliance, an expansion of their partnership, to enable enterprises to migrate and manage networks for multi-cloud connectivity and comprehensive network security. The partnership combines Kyndryl’s end-to-end consulting services and expertise across enterprise networking,…
Fake Obituary Sites Send Grievers to Porn and Scareware Pages
Secureworks is warning of fake obituary sites which expose visitors to fake AV scams This article has been indexed from www.infosecurity-magazine.com Read the original article: Fake Obituary Sites Send Grievers to Porn and Scareware Pages
Curious Serpens’ FalseFont Backdoor: Technical Analysis, Detection and Prevention
Iran-linked APT Curious Serpens is using a new backdoor, FalseFont, to target the aerospace and defense industries through fake job recruitment. The post Curious Serpens’ FalseFont Backdoor: Technical Analysis, Detection and Prevention appeared first on Unit 42. This article has…
Quick Glossary: Cybersecurity Countermeasures
Cybersecurity attacks are inevitable for modern businesses. Therefore, it is vital that businesses deploy countermeasures to mitigate the damage these attacks cause. This quick glossary, created by Mark W. Kaelin for TechRepublic Premium, explains the terminology behind the most common…
Ivanti urges customers to fix critical RCE flaw in Standalone Sentry solution
Ivanti urges customers to address a critical remote code execution vulnerability impacting the Standalone Sentry solution. Ivanti addressed a critical remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-41724 (CVSS score of 9.6), impacting Standalone Sentry solution. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit…
Intel To Spend $100bn In US, After Biden’s $20bn Award
Big investment planned for US, after Intel wins nearly $20 billion in loans and funding from Biden Administration This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: Intel To Spend $100bn In US, After Biden’s $20bn Award