Wednesday, September 22, 2021 from Threatpost
It's the second agricultural business to be seized this week and portends a bitter harvest with yet another nasty jab at critical infrastructure.Wednesday, September 22, 2021 from Threatpost
The issue lies in a parental-control function that's always enabled by default, even if users don't configure for child security.Wednesday, September 22, 2021 from Dark Reading:
The UK MoD has failed to protect personally identifiable information (PII) for Afghan interpreters; the incident highlights how avoidable cybersecurity mistakes can have devastating consequences.Wednesday, September 22, 2021 from Threatpost
All a user needs to do is click on an email attachment, and boom – the code is silently executed without the victim knowing. It affects Big Sur and prior versions of macOS.Wednesday, September 22, 2021 from Threatpost
A newly discovered backdoor and double chats could have enabled REvil ransomware-as-a-service operators to hijack victim cases and snatch affiliates’ cuts of ransom payments.Wednesday, September 22, 2021 from Threatpost
VMware urged immediate patching of the max-severity, arbitrary file upload flaw in Analytics service, which affects all appliances running default 6.5, 6.7 and 7.0 installs.Wednesday, September 22, 2021 from Threatpost
The initiative, run by HackerOne, aims to uncover dangerous code repository bugs that end up going viral across the application supply-chain.Wednesday, September 22, 2021 from Homeland Security News Wire
9/22/21 Extremism Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments U.S. national security and law enforcement agencies are battling what they describe as a “significant jump” in threats from domestic terrorists, many of...Wednesday, September 22, 2021 from Threatpost
The action is the first of its kind in the U.S., as the government increases efforts to get a handle on cybercrime.Wednesday, September 22, 2021 from The Register - Security
Email clients fail over to unexpected domains if they can't find the right resources A flaw in Microsoft's Autodiscover protocol, used to configure Exchange clients like Outlook, can cause user credentials to leak to miscreants in...Wednesday, September 22, 2021 from Naked Security - Sophos
"It is a matter of time before working exploits are available," warns VMware.Wednesday, September 22, 2021 from THN : The Hacker News
Microsoft has opened the lid on a large-scale phishing-as-a-service (PHaaS) operation that's involved in selling phishing kits and email templates as well as providing hosting and automated services at a low cost, thus enabling cyber...Wednesday, September 22, 2021 from Homeland Security News Wire
9/22/21 Extremism Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments When a terrorist organization splits along ideological lines, how do rank and file members choose one faction over another? You might expect that these...Wednesday, September 22, 2021 from Homeland Security News Wire
9/22/21 ARGUMENT: Nuclear threshold state Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments Over the last several months, Iran has continued to advance its sensitive nuclear programs, largely unhindered by weeks of Joint...Wednesday, September 22, 2021 from Homeland Security News Wire
9/22/21 Land mines Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments Armed with a newly minted undergraduate degree in geology, Jasper Baur is in the mining business. Not those mines where we extract metals or minerals;...Wednesday, September 22, 2021 from Homeland Security News Wire
9/22/21 Water security Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments Water diplomacy means that water must be diplomatized and diplomacy watered. This is how Professor Marko Keskinen from Aalto...Wednesday, September 22, 2021 from Homeland Security News Wire
9/22/21 Climate challenges Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ), released in early August, made it clear that humankind needs to...Wednesday, September 22, 2021 from Homeland Security News Wire
9/22/21 Planetary security Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments Even Harry Stamper would probably like these odds. Recently NASA updated its forecast of the chances that the asteroid Bennu,...Wednesday, September 22, 2021 from Homeland Security News Wire
9/22/21 Our picks Enable IntenseDebate Comments: 0 Wuhan Scientists Planned to Release Coronavirus Particles into Cave Bats, Leaked Papers Reveal (Sarah Knapton, The Telegraph ) Documents reveal researchers applied for $14m...Wednesday, September 22, 2021 from THN : The Hacker News
As many as 11 security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in Nagios network management systems, some of which could be chained to achieve pre-authenticated remote code execution with the highest privileges, as well as lead to credential...Wednesday, September 22, 2021 from THN : The Hacker News
One of the determining factors of how much damage a cyber-attack cause is how fast organizations can respond to it. Time to response is critical for security teams, and it is a major hurdle for leaner teams. To help improve this metric...Wednesday, September 22, 2021 from THN : The Hacker News
The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday imposed sanctions on Russian cryptocurrency exchange Suex for helping facilitate and launder transactions from at least eight ransomware variants as part of the government's efforts to crack down...Wednesday, September 22, 2021 from THN : The Hacker News
Over the last several years, there have been numerous high-profile security breaches. These breaches have underscored the fact that traditional cyber defenses have become woefully inadequate and that stronger defenses are needed. As...Wednesday, September 22, 2021 from intelNews.org
THE FORMER DIRECTOR OF Venezuela’s military spy agency has been captured in Madrid after two years on the run, and is now likely to be extradited to the United States, where he will face drug trafficking charges.Wednesday, September 22, 2021 from THN : The Hacker News
Networking equipment company Netgear has released patches to remediate a high-severity remote code execution vulnerability affecting multiple routers that could be exploited by remote attackers to take control of an affected system....Wednesday, September 22, 2021 from THN : The Hacker News
VMware on Tuesday published a new bulletin warning of as many as 19 vulnerabilities in vCenter Server and Cloud Foundation appliances that a remote attacker could exploit to take control of an affected system. The most urgent among them...Wednesday, September 22, 2021 from THN : The Hacker News
Law enforcement agencies in Italy and Spain have dismantled an organized crime group linked to the Italian Mafia that was involved in online fraud, money laundering, drug trafficking, and property crime, netting the gang about €10...Wednesday, September 22, 2021 from THN : The Hacker News
Cybersecurity researchers on Tuesday disclosed details of an unpatched zero-day vulnerability in macOS Finder that could be abused by remote adversaries to trick users into running arbitrary commands on the machines. "A vulnerability in...Wednesday, September 22, 2021 from The Register - Security
File upload vuln lets miscreants hijack vCenter Server VMware has disclosed a critical bug in its flagship vSphere and vCenter products and urged users to drop everything and patch it. The virtualization giant also offered a workaround.…Tuesday, September 21, 2021 from The Register - Security
Misconfigured Elasticsearch server blamed A database containing personal information on 106 million international travelers to Thailand was exposed to the public internet this year, a Brit biz claimed this week.…Tuesday, September 21, 2021 from The Register - Security
Russia-based biz targeted in Uncle Sam's crack down on cyber-extortion The US Treasury on Tuesday sanctioned virtual cryptocurrency exchange Suex OTC for handling financial transactions for ransomware operators, an intervention that's...Tuesday, September 21, 2021 from Threatpost
"Time to find out who in your family secretly ran ... [a] QAnon hellhole," said attackers who affiliated themselves with the hacktivist collective Anonymous, noting that Epik had laughable security.Tuesday, September 21, 2021 from Naked Security - Sophos
Fake heads! (Cue dystopian scifi music.)Tuesday, September 21, 2021 from Threatpost
Nick Kael, CTO at Ericom, discusses how phishing is gaining sophistication and what it means for businesses.Tuesday, September 21, 2021 from Threatpost
“TinyTurla,” simply coded malware that hides away as a legitimate Windows service, has flown under the radar for two years.Tuesday, September 21, 2021 from World news: Espionage | theguardian.com
Officer was travelling with CIA director William Burns when he experienced symptoms consistent with being exposed to directed energy A US intelligence officer suffered symptoms linked to a series of suspected directed-energy attacks...Tuesday, September 21, 2021 from The Register - Security
'Our >3,000 customers had to print again' Microsoft's Patch Tuesday update last week was meant to fix print vulnerabilities in Windows but also broke network printing for many, with some admins disabling security or removing the patch...Tuesday, September 21, 2021 from THN : The Hacker News
Unidentified threat actors breached a server running an unpatched, 11-year-old version of Adobe's ColdFusion 9 software in minutes to remotely take over control and deploy file-encrypting Cring ransomware on the target's network 79 hours...Tuesday, September 21, 2021 from Homeland Security News Wire
9/21/21 Iran’s nukes Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments Iran may now be capable of producing enough weapons-grade uranium for a single nuclear warhead within just a month. That’s...Tuesday, September 21, 2021 from Homeland Security News Wire
9/21/21 Ransomware Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments The United States has imposed sanctions on a Russian-based cryptocurrency exchange over its alleged role in facilitating illegal payments from...Tuesday, September 21, 2021 from The Register - Security
We joke about lethal consequences of failure but this isn't funny The UK's Ministry of Defence has launched an internal investigation after committing the classic CC-instead-of-BCC email error – but with the names and contact details of...Tuesday, September 21, 2021 from Terrorism in the UK
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Tuesday, September 21, 2021 from THN : The Hacker News
A recently discovered wave of malware attacks has been spotted using a variety of tactics to enslave susceptible machines with easy-to-guess administrative credentials to co-opt them into a network with the goal of illegally mining...Tuesday, September 21, 2021 from NYT > Terrorism
Inside the Times investigation that forced the U.S. military to acknowledge that a drone attack in Afghanistan was a deadly error.Tuesday, September 21, 2021 from THN : The Hacker News
2020 was a year of relentless disruptions. The protective layer of secured enterprise networks and controlled IT environments of the physical premises did not exist. Over the past year, CISOs (Chief Information Security Officers) have...Tuesday, September 21, 2021 from Terrorism in the UK
Tuesday, September 21, 2021 from E Hacking News - Hacker News and Latest IT Security News
Researchers discovered API security flaws impacting several apps, potentially exposing the personal and financial information of millions of consumers. According to CloudSEK, around 250 of the 13,000 apps published to its...Tuesday, September 21, 2021 from E Hacking News - Hacker News and Latest IT Security News
Google recently announced a $100 million donation to organizations that manage open-source security priorities and assist with vulnerability fixes, and it has now revealed eight of the projects it will fund. The Linux Foundation...Tuesday, September 21, 2021 from Terrorism in the UK