Smart devices: using them safely in your home
<div>Many everyday items are now connected to the internet: we explain how to use them safely.</div>
<div>Many everyday items are now connected to the internet: we explain how to use them safely.</div>
<div>Risk appetites; what are they, what’s their purpose, how do organisations go about defining them?</div>
<div>Why I'm trying desperately to stop saying 'it depends' when it comes to simple cyber security questions...</div>
<div>The NCSC's Cloud Security Research Lead suggests some approaches to help you get confidence in cloud services.</div>
<div>An updated report from the NCSC explaining how UK law firms - of all sizes - can protect themselves from common cyber threats.</div>
<div>Recommended profiles to securely configure TLS for the most common versions and scenarios, with additional guidance for managing older versions.</div>
<div>How setting up 2SV can help protect your online accounts, even if your password is stolen.</div>
<div>A vulnerability has been discovered in the 'util-linux' library that could allow unprivileged users to put arbitrary text on other users' terminals using the 'wall' command. [...]</div>
The U.S. Department of Treasury on March 27th released a report titled "Managing Artificial Intelligence-Specific Cybersecurity Risks in the Financial Services Sector." The report highlights the growing concern around artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential to introduce new cybersecurity threats to the financial industry. Why is AI a cybersecurity threat? While AI offers tremendous opportunities for financial institutions, it also presents unique security challenges. Here's how: Ev
Nobody can deny the influence of AI today. In just a few years, we have observed AI’s capacity to be as transformative as the internet and smartphones, especially for cybersecurity. Indeed, the potential of AI to radically simplify complex security environments is unmistakable, and aligns closely with our mission at ThreatDown to reduce threats, complexity, and costs for our customers. With continuous advancements in AI and its ever-expanding potential to enhance user experiences, ThreatDown
In early 2024, a large K-12 school district partnered with ThreatDown MDR to strengthen its cybersecurity posture. Shortly after onboarding, ThreatDown MDR analysts detected unusual patterns of activity subsequently identified as the work of SolarMarker, a sophisticated backdoor. It became evident that SolarMarker had been present in the district’s system since at least 2021, likely exfiltrating data over several years. Let’s dive further into the investigation’s findings and the steps taken
Posted by Julian Horoszkiewicz via Fulldisclosure on Mar 28Vulnerability summary: Local Privilege Escalation from regular user to SYSTEM, via conhost.exe hijacking triggered by MSI installer in repair mode Affected Products: Intel PowerGadget Affected Versions: tested on PowerGadget_3.6.msi (a3834b2559c18e6797ba945d685bf174), file signed on Monday, February 1, 2021 9:43:20 PM (this seems to be the latest version), earlier versions might be affected as well. Affected Platforms: Windows...
<div>American retailer Hot Topic disclosed that two waves of credential stuffing attacks in November exposed affected customers' personal information and partial payment data. [...]</div>
Cisco addressed multiple vulnerabilities in IOS and IOS XE software that can be exploited to trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. Cisco this week released patches to address multiple IOS and IOS XE software vulnerabilities. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit several issues fixed by the IT giant to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. Below are the most severe issues addressed by the company: CVE-2024-20311 (CVSS score 8.6) – A vulnerability in the Locator ID Separat
Rethink different: First, fatigue frightened users with multiple modal nighttime notifications. Next, call and pretend to be Apple support. The post Apple OTP FAIL: ‘MFA Bomb’ Warning — Locks Accounts, Wipes iPhones appeared first on Security Boulevard.
Rapid7’s Managed Detection and Response (MDR) team continuously monitors our customers' environments, identifying emerging threats and developing new detections.In August 2023, Rapid7 identified a new malware loader named the IDAT Loader. Malware loaders are a type of malicious software designed to deliver and execute additional malware onto a victim's system. What made the IDAT Loader unique was the way in which it retrieved data from PNG files, searching for offsets beginning with 49 44 41 54
<div>The Python Package Index (PyPI) has temporarily suspended user registration and the creation of new projects to deal with an ongoing malware campaign. [...]</div>
<div><p>Maintainers of the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository were forced to suspend new project creation and new user registration to mitigate a malware upload campaign.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.securityweek.com/malware-upload-attack-hits-pypi-repository/">Malware Upload Attack Hits PyPI Repository</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.securityweek.com/">SecurityWeek</a>.</p></div>
<div><p>By <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.hackread.com/author/uzair/">Uzair Amir</a></p> <p>Wilder World, a massively multiplayer online metaverse, is now available for wishlisting on the Epic Games Store, a…</p> <p>This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.hackread.com/wilder-world-launches-epic-games-store-gta-web3-game/">Wilder World Launches on Epic Games Store as The First ‘GTA of Web3’ Game</a></p></div>
GoPlus Labs, the leading Web3 security infrastructure provider, has unveiled a groundbreaking report highlighting the growing, widespread use and potential of Web3 user security data to aid in risk management. The report’s findings reveal a clear and growing demand for more advanced security tools that can effectively safeguard digital assets, verify the authenticity of nonfungible tokens (NFTs), and monitor decentralized applications for threats. The report, “Uncharted Consensus: The Wi