Application Security
When FireEye (now Mandiant) disclosed the SolarWinds breach in December 2020, the security world was forced to accept the reality that given the motivation,...
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Fraud & Identity Theft
Signal has also made a security announcement: an automatic key verification feature to complement its safety number system.
Fraud & Identity Theft
The payments giant says BioCatch’s behavioral and device intelligence will help financial institutions combat account takeovers, scams and other forms of digital fraud.
Data Breaches
Hackers recently obtained non-sensitive customer information and other documents from the company.
Fraud & Identity Theft
US conducts sweeping crackdown on Southeast Asian cyberscam operations as part of what officials say is a “new theater of war”.
Application Security
Adobe on Tuesday released a slew of urgent patches with fixes for more than 90 documented vulnerabilities that expose Windows, macOS and Linux users...
Application Security
The open-source Mozilla Foundation says it blocked a series of malicious Firefox add-ons that misused the proxy API that extensions use to proxy web...
Application Security
A security researcher at CyberArk was able to easily break more than 70 percent of Wi-Fi passwords he sniffed using relatively simple, cheap equipment.
Application Security
Security responders are scrambling this weekend to assess the damage from crypto-mining malware embedded in an npm package (JavaScript library) that counts close to...
Application Security
The global fight against ransomware took a new twist this week with the United States leading a law enforcement effort to hack back and...
Application Security
Tech giant Microsoft has rolled out new security offering to provide non-profit organizationss with additional security in the event of a nation-state attack.
Cybersecurity Funding
Aura, a Burlington, MA-based company that provides cybersecurity solutions for consumers, has announced raising $200 million in a Series F funding round.The funding, which...
Fraud & Identity Theft
Three former executives of now defunct cybersecurity company GigaTrust have been charged for defrauding investors and lenders in a $50 million fraud scheme.
Application Security
Google has released a new version of its flagship Chrome web browser with patches for a total of 19 vulnerabilities, including 16 reported by...
Audits
A previously unseen threat actor, likely a nation-state, is targeting various entities in South Asia, with a focus on Afghanistan, according to a warning...
Cybercrime
The individual who hacked the human resources databases of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center was sentenced to seven years in prison, the United...
Cybercrime
The United States Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has identified a total of 177 cryptocurrency wallets associated with the top...
Application Security
At least 130 ransomware families were active in 2020 and in the first half of 2021, according to a recent data analysis from Google’s...
Application Security
Security researchers have spotted signs of the Necro Python botnet targeting a vulnerability in Visual Tools DVR systems to install a Monero miner on...
Application Security
The Linux Foundation has secured a new $10 million investment that will help expand and support the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF).
Application Security
Technology giants Intel Corp. and VMware joined the Patch Tuesday parade this week, rolling out fixes for security defects that expose users to malicious...
Audits
The Microsoft Patch Tuesday freight train for October rolled in with fixes for at least 71 security defects in Windows products and components and...
Application Security
At SecurityWeek's 2021 CISO Forum, a high-powered panel of experts discussed specific ways an SBOM can improve supply chain security and where expectations may be overblown. ...
Application Security
Engineering company Weir Group has acknowledged it was the victim of a ransomware attack that will likely affect revenue for the third quarter of...
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Every leaked credential should be dead, or dying, within sixty seconds of being found. Here's a proposal to make that the default.
(Matt Honea)
Security teams must treat autonomous agents as highly privileged identities.
(Etay Maor)
For twenty-five years, "data" in security meant logs and events. But logs are a lossy representation of reality.
(Danelle Au)
Organizations must distinguish identity verification, authentication and threat detection, or risk successfully authenticating the attackers they are trying to stop.
(Torsten George)
Silent patches can become exploit intelligence for attackers while leaving defenders without the context needed to prioritize risk.
(Tod Beardsley)