The holiday shopping season is upon us again, and retailers are gearing up for the highly anticipated sales events of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. While these days represent peak consumer spending, the prominence of digital channels also introduces complex…
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Gamblers’ data compromised after casino giant Strendus fails to set password
Mexican online casino Strendus has exposed sensitive user data, including home addresses and the amounts of money they spent on gambling. Strendus, one of the biggest online casinos in Mexico has exposed sensitive user data, including home addresses and the…
New Intel CPU Vulnerability ‘Reptar’ Can Allow DoS Attacks, Privilege Escalation
A new Intel CPU vulnerability tracked as Reptar and CVE-2023-23583 can be exploited for DoS attacks and possibly privilege escalation. The post New Intel CPU Vulnerability ‘Reptar’ Can Allow DoS Attacks, Privilege Escalation appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article has…
Chipmaker Patch Tuesday: Intel, AMD Address Over 130 Vulnerabilities
Intel and AMD have informed their customers about a total of more than 130 vulnerabilities found in their products. The post Chipmaker Patch Tuesday: Intel, AMD Address Over 130 Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article has been indexed from…
UK Privacy Regulator Issues Black Friday Smart Device Warning
Consumers urged to think before they buy connected technology This article has been indexed from www.infosecurity-magazine.com Read the original article: UK Privacy Regulator Issues Black Friday Smart Device Warning
Financial Institutions in New York Face Stricter Cybersecurity Rules
Boards of directors need to maintain an appropriate level of cyber expertise, incidents must be reported within 72 hours after determination, and all ransom payments made must be reported within a day. Those are just some of the changes made…
Secure Access Control in 2024: 6 Trends to Watch Out For
What Is Secure Access Control? Secure access control, part of the broader field of user management , is a key concept in the realm of information security, particularly in the business environment. It refers to the process of selectively restricting…
Ransomware more efficient than ever, and baddies are still after your logs
Trying times for incident responders who battle fastest-ever ransomware blitz as attackers keep scrubbing evidence clean Organizations are still failing to implement adequate logging measures, increasing the difficulty faced by defenders and incident responders to identify the cause of infosec…
Microsoft Fixes Five Zero-Day Vulnerabilities
Patch Tuesday includes fixes for three actively exploited bugs This article has been indexed from www.infosecurity-magazine.com Read the original article: Microsoft Fixes Five Zero-Day Vulnerabilities
Acuity – 14,055,729 breached accounts
In mid-2020, a 437GB corpus of data attributed to an entity named "Acuity" was created and later extensively distributed. However, the source could not be confidently verified as any known companies named Acuity. The data totalled over 14M unique email…
US Dismantles IPStorm Botnet Proxy Service
Russian-Moldovan national faces maximum 30-year jail stretch This article has been indexed from www.infosecurity-magazine.com Read the original article: US Dismantles IPStorm Botnet Proxy Service
VMware disclosed a critical and unpatched authentication bypass flaw in VMware Cloud Director Appliance
VMware disclosed a critical bypass vulnerability in VMware Cloud Director Appliance that can be exploited to bypass login restrictions when authenticating on certain ports. VMware disclosed an authentication bypass vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-34060 (CVSS score 9.8), in its Cloud Director Appliance…
CVE-2023-4966 vulnerability becomes a global problem
Threat researcher Kevin Beaumont has been tracking attacks against various companies, including the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), DP World, Allen & Overy, and Boeing, and found they had something […] Thank you for being a Ghacks reader.…
Evolving beyond your core expertise: it’s time to add security
This post is for creators of digital services like optimization tools, VPN solutions, Backup and Disaster Recovery tools, Parental control tools, Identity protection tools, Privacy tools, Email clients, Browsers and many others. Your products are doing a good job in…
Apache Arrow PyArrow Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability (CVS 2023-47248) Notification
Overview Recently, NSFOCUS CERT found that Apache Arrow issued a security notice, which fixed an arbitrary code execution vulnerability in the PyArrow library (CVE-2023-47248). Due to PyArrow reading Arrow IPC, Feather, or Parquet data from untrusted sources, PyExtensionType creates an…
Reptar: New Intel CPU Vulnerability Impacts Multi-Tenant Virtualized Environments
Intel has released fixes to close out a high-severity flaw codenamed Reptar that impacts its desktop, mobile, and server CPUs. Tracked as CVE-2023-23583 (CVSS score: 8.8), the issue has the potential to “allow escalation of privilege and/or information disclosure and/or denial of service via local access.”…
HARmor: Open-source tool for sanitizing and securing HAR files
HARmor is an open-source tool that sanitizes HTTP Archive files. Easy to install and run, it enables the safe handling and sharing of HAR files. What are HAR files? HAR files are critical for support teams working to debug and…
The CTI Process Hyperloop: A Practical Implementation of the CTI Process Lifecycle
Implementing the CTI Process Lifecycle as a Hyperloop The Intelligence Hyperloop is an implementation model for the Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) Process Lifecycle. The lifecycle is a well-established process describing how intelligence products are driven by planning & direction initially,…
Crypto asset discovery and the post-quantum migration
Quantum computing is reshaping our world and will revolutionize many industries, including materials science, life sciences, transportation, and energy. Google recently demonstrated the power of quantum computers by solving a problem in seconds that today’s supercomputers require nearly 50 years…
Alert: Microsoft Releases Patch Updates for 5 New Zero-Day Vulnerabilities
Microsoft has released fixes to address 63 security bugs in its software for the month of November 2023, including three vulnerabilities that have come under active exploitation in the wild. Of the 63 flaws, three are rated Critical, 56 are rated Important,…