What is the CIA triad? The CIA triad components, defined The CIA triad, which stands for confidentiality, integrity, and availability,is a widely used information security model for guiding an organization’s efforts and policies aimed at keeping its data secure. The model has nothing to do with the US Central Intelligence Agency; rather, the initials evoke the…
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The OWASP Top 10 was originally created by Endor Labs, a software supply chain and application security company focused on the secure consumption of OSS, CI/CD pipelines, and vulnerability management. The project also included support from industry leaders such as Palo Alto, HashiCorp, and Citibank. While traditionally vulnerability management has looked at known vulnerabilities, often…
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The telecom giant said the records—but not the content—of phone and text messages for seven months of 2022 was exposed. AT&T said Friday that records of phone and text messages for “nearly all” customers was exposed in a significant data breach. The records date from a seven-month period of 2022—from May 1, 2022, to Oct.…
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Additionally, the threat actor deploys cryptominers to profit from compromised systems, the cloud security intelligence and solutions provider added. CRYSTALRAY leverages existing vulnerability proof of concepts (PoCs) and uses OSS penetration testing tools to scan a list of targets against these vulnerabilities. Once detected, they modify the existing PoCs for their payload and drop them…
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The IT systems outage for car dealerships caused by a mid-June ransomware attack still lasted two weeks. CDK Global reportedly paid $25 million to cybercriminals after a mid-June ransomware attack disrupted business for thousands of car dealerships. According to a report from CNN citing multiple sources, software maker CDK paid the ransom to accelerate the…
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The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) said it seized two internet domains and searched nearly 1,000 social media accounts that Russian threat actors allegedly used to covertly spread pro-Kremlin disinformation in the country and abroad on a large scale. “The social media bot farm used elements of AI to create fictitious social media profiles —…
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Jul 12, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Software Security A critical security issue has been disclosed in the Exim mail transfer agent that could enable threat actors to deliver malicious attachments to target users’ inboxes. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-39929, has a CVSS score of 9.1 out of 10.0. It has been addressed in version 4.98. “Exim through…
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He went on to speculate about the origin of the nude pictures: “Were they obtained from compromised devices without the knowledge or consent of the owner? They certainly don’t look like anything that would be loaded into a ticketing system.” CSOonline approached mSpy for comment on the breach and to ask what advice it had…
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AT&T is warning of a massive data breach where threat actors stole the call logs for approximately 109 million customers, or nearly all of its mobile customers, from an online database on the company’s Snowflake account. The company confirmed to BleepingComputer that the data was stolen from the Snowflake account between April 14 and April…
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An AT&T spokesperson reportedly disclosed the theft of customer records was part of the recent wave of data theft attacks targeting Snowflake customers. An AT&T spokesperson reportedly disclosed that the massive theft of customer records was part of the recent wave of data theft attacks targeting Snowflake customers. The disclosure came as the telecom giant…
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