Month: April 2024
CISA is collaborating with private industry partners to respond to a recent compromise discovered by independent security researchers impacting Sisense, a company that provides data analytics services. CISA urges Sisense customers to: Reset credentials and secrets potentially exposed to, or used to access, Sisense services. Investigate—and report to CISA—any suspicious activity involving credentials potentially exposed…
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Apr 11, 2024The Hacker NewsSoftware Security / Programming GitGuardian is famous for its annual State of Secrets Sprawl report. In their 2023 report, they found over 10 million exposed passwords, API keys, and other credentials exposed in public GitHub commits. The takeaways in their 2024 report did not just highlight 12.8 million new exposed secrets…
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Apr 11, 2024NewsroomEndpoint Security / Ransomware A threat actor tracked as TA547 has targeted dozens of German organizations with an information stealer called Rhadamanthys as part of an invoice-themed phishing campaign. “This is the first time researchers observed TA547 use Rhadamanthys, an information stealer that is used by multiple cybercriminal threat actors,” Proofpoint said. “Additionally,…
Read MoreBackdoor in XZ Utils That Almost Happened Last week, the internet dodged a major nation-state attack that would have had catastrophic cybersecurity repercussions worldwide. It’s a catastrophe that didn’t happen, so it won’t get much attention—but it should. There’s an important moral to the story of the attack and its discovery: The security of the…
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Businesses are increasingly moving their data to the cloud, making cloud security a top priority. To address this growing need, Google Cloud has introduced Security Command Center Enterprise (SCC Enterprise), a new solution that combines Google’s security fabric with threat intelligence from Mandiant. SCC Enterprise provides businesses with a more comprehensive view of their cloud…
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Apr 11, 2024NewsroomSpyware / Cyber Espionage Apple on Wednesday revised its documentation pertaining to its mercenary spyware threat notification system to mention that it alerts users when they may have been individually targeted by such attacks. It also specifically called out companies like NSO Group for developing commercial surveillance tools such as Pegasus that are…
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The top 10 open source risks OWASP 1: Known vulnerabilities This section covers OSS components with known vulnerabilities such as software flaws, often inadvertently introduced by software developers and maintainers and then subsequently disclosed publicly, often by security researchers in the community. These vulnerabilities may be exploitable depending on the context in which they are…
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Apr 11, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Threat Mitigation Fortinet has released patches to address a critical security flaw impacting FortiClientLinux that could be exploited to achieve arbitrary code execution. Tracked as CVE-2023-45590, the vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 9.4 out of a maximum of 10. “An Improper Control of Generation of Code (‘Code Injection’) vulnerability [CWE-94]…
Read MoreHistory of RSA Conference. Bruce Schneier. The First ‘Exhibitor’ in 1994. Listen to the Audio on SoundCloud.com Bruce Schneier was at the first ever RSA Conference in 1991, and he was the first ‘exhibitor’ in 1994 when he asked Jim Bidzos, Creator of the RSA Conference, if he could sell copies of his book “Applied…
Read MoreApply appropriate updates provided by Google to vulnerable systems immediately after appropriate testing. (M1051: Update Software) Safeguard 7.1: Establish and Maintain a Vulnerability Management Process: Establish and maintain a documented vulnerability management process for enterprise assets. Review and update documentation annually, or when significant enterprise changes occur that could impact this Safeguard. Safeguard 7.4: Perform…
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