The cybersecurity education program provides programming to academic institutions across the country, including Sheridan College, Willis College, and, most recently, the University of Calgary. Canadian organizations across all sectors are being targeted by cyberattacks. As the incidence of cybercrime continues…
November Shopping Schemes: Check Point Research Unveiling Cybercriminal Tactics as Luxury Brands Become Pawns in Email Scams
Highlights: Delivery service and shipping sectors are the focus of cybercriminals during this shopping period. October 2023 saw a 13% increase in the number of malicious files related to orders and delivery/shipping compared to October 2022. Check Point Research Exposes…
Dangerous Apache ActiveMQ Exploit Allows Stealthy EDR Bypass
There’s no time to waste: For organizations on the fence about patching the critical bug in ActiveMQ, the new proof-of-concept exploit should push them towards action. This article has been indexed from Dark Reading Read the original article: Dangerous Apache…
How to Pitch Cybersecurity Packages
By Brandi Crown, Director of Sales at Syncro If you have a tool that has proven to improve threat protection for your clients, but you don’t know how to sell it effectively, it’s a lose-lose for everyone. Your client misses…
An Inside Look at Ransomware’s Record-Breaking Pace in 2023
Ryan Bell, Threat Intel Manager, Corvus Insurance There is still more than one month left in the books for 2023, and it’s safe to say that once we flip the calendar to January, we will have also closed the books…
ALPHV (BlackCat) Ransomware Gang Uses Google Ads for Targeted Victims
By Deeba Ahmed Yet another day, another instance of a Google service being exploited for spreading malware infections. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: ALPHV (BlackCat) Ransomware Gang Uses Google Ads for Targeted Victims This article…
Check Point Software Technologies Expands SecureAcademy™ Program in Canada with Eight New Universities and Colleges to Empower the Next-Generation of Cybersecurity Professionals
The cybersecurity education program provides programming to academic institutions across the country, including Sheridan College, Willis College, and, most recently, the University of Calgary. Canadian organizations across all sectors are being targeted by cyberattacks. As the incidence of cybercrime continues…
Avito – 2,721,835 breached accounts
In November 2022, the Moroccan e-commerce service Avito suffered a data breach that exposed the personal information of 2.7M customers. The data included name, email, phone, IP address and geographic location. This article has been indexed from Have I Been…
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…
Check Point Software Technologies Expands SecureAcademy™ Program in Canada with Eight New Universities and Colleges to Empower the Next-Generation of Cybersecurity Professionals
The cybersecurity education program provides programming to academic institutions across the country, including Sheridan College, Willis College, and, most recently, the University of Calgary. Canadian organizations across all sectors are being targeted by cyberattacks. As the incidence of cybercrime continues…
Cybersecurity investor Ballistic Ventures seeks $300M for new fund
Ballistic Ventures, a venture capital firm dedicated to funding and incubating cybersecurity startups, is looking to raise as much as $300 million for a new fund, according to a regulatory filing. The San Francisco-based VC firm Wednesday filed with the…
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…
EFF to Supreme Court: Fifth Amendment Protects People from Being Forced to Enter or Hand Over Cell Phone Passcodes to the Police
Lower Court Ruling Undermining Protections Against Self Incrimination Should Be Reversed < div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today asked the Supreme Court to overturn a ruling undermining…
DEF CON 31 – winn0na, and Panel: Hacker Court Interactive Scenario
Many thanks to DEF CON 31 for publishing their terrific DefCon Conference 31 presenters content. Originating from the conference events at Caesars Forum, Flamingo, Harrah’s and Linq in Las Vegas, Nevada; via the organizations YouTube channel. Permalink The post DEF…
Key Take Aways from NIST Releases 800-171 Revision 3
On November 9th 2023 National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST, released special publication 800-171 Revision 3 Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information in Nonfederal Systems and Organizations as a Final Public Draft. Both the full draft and accompanying assessment methodology were…
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.…
New Protestware Uses npm Packages to Call for Peace in Gaza and Ukraine
By Waqas Apart from displaying these messages, the packages performed no other actions. This indicates that these aren’t malicious per se. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: New Protestware Uses npm Packages to Call for Peace…
Check Point Software Technologies Expands SecureAcademy™ Program in Canada with Eight New Universities and Colleges to Empower the Next-Generation of Cybersecurity Professionals
The cybersecurity education program provides programming to academic institutions across the country, including Sheridan College, Willis College, and, most recently, the University of Calgary. Canadian organizations across all sectors are being targeted by cyberattacks. As the incidence of cybercrime continues…
Zimbra zero-day exploited to steal government emails by four groups
Google TAG revealed that threat actors exploited a Zimbra Collaboration Suite zero-day (CVE-2023-37580) to steal emails from governments. Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) researchers revealed that a zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-37580 (CVSS score: 6.1), in the Zimbra Collaboration email software was…
Rackspace racks up $12M bill in ransomware raid recovery
And that’s not counting the incoming lawsuits Rackspace’s costs from last year’s ransomware infection continue to mount: the cloud hosting biz told America’s financial watchdog, the SEC, its total expenses to date regarding that cyberattack have reached $12 million –…
Vulnerability Summary for the Week of November 6, 2023
High Vulnerabilities Primary Vendor — Product Description Published CVSS Score Source & Patch Info 1e — platform The 1E-Exchange-URLResponseTime instruction that is part of the Network product pack available on the 1E Exchange does not properly validate the URL…
Microsoft unveils expansion of AI for security and security for AI at Microsoft Ignite
The new era of AI is here. At Microsoft Ignite, we will be announcing new cybersecurity capabilities to help you thrive in this new age. Explore our big announcements. The post Microsoft unveils expansion of AI for security and security…
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,…
Check Point Software Technologies Expands SecureAcademy™ Program in Canada with Eight New Universities and Colleges to Empower the Next-Generation of Cybersecurity Professionals
The cybersecurity education program provides programming to academic institutions across the country, including Sheridan College, Willis College, and, most recently, the University of Calgary. Canadian organizations across all sectors are being targeted by cyberattacks. As the incidence of cybercrime continues…