Fraudulent unemployment claims filed by attackers against residents of the state of Washington and at least six other U.S. states are sending worried consumers into panic. Many are caught completely off guard by letters they’ve received from their states’ employment security departments notifying them that their unemployment claim is being processed. The problem? They didn’t…
Read MoreIt’s that special time of year again! In perhaps the most festive of all end-of-the-year traditions, the cyber security community tries to predict the next big scary incident which will make headlines in the new year. At the risk of sounding cynical, building strategies to respond to cyber security threats are a bit like New…
Read MoreFive Key Cybersecurity Skills In part one, we explained why it’s better to grow your own cybersecurity experts than shop on the open market. If CISOs can find people who are inspired by security, and who are willing and humble enough to go the distance, they should hold on to them—these are the people to…
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Creating an encrypted HTTPS website depends on a lot more than simply throwing a digital certificate at it and hoping for the best. In fact, Transport Layer Security (TLS) and HTTPS misconfigurations are now so commonplace that in the 2021 OWASP Top 10, Cryptographic Failures now comes in second place…. Source link lol
Read MoreMS-ISAC ADVISORY NUMBER: 2023-144 DATE(S) ISSUED: 12/20/2023 OVERVIEW: Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mozilla products, the most severe of which could allow for arbitrary code execution. Mozilla Firefox is a web browser used to access the Internet. Mozilla Firefox ESR is a version of the web browser intended to be deployed in large organizations.…
Read MoreAnother interesting aspect of Figure 3 is identifying when vulnerabilities drop off for periods of time. In October we identified two recently released vulnerabilities, CVE-2022-40684 and CVE-2022-41040, in our logs. Both are severe vulnerabilities; CVE-2022-40684, an authentication bypass vulnerability in various Fortinet security appliances, has a CVSS 3.1 score of 9.8, and CVE-2022-41040, an escalation…
Read MoreRegulators are increasing enforcement actions and penalties against the big banks for failures in cyber risk management, and the rest better take notice. Between August and October of 2020, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), an independent bureau of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, imposed $625 million in fines on major…
Read MoreAlthough the attack scan traffic into the United States is in line with the proportion of the assigned IP addresses, most of the other countries are not. The extreme outlier that stands out is Malaysia, rising to second place in Q3 2021. Examining Attacks on Malaysia from China Since this is so unusual, we examined…
Read MoreIntroduction gRPC (gRPC Remote Procedure Call) is a protocol that is gaining a lot of traction in the microservices world and is becoming a popular alternative for developers to use instead of REST (representational state transfer). Many organizations are trying to adopt gRPC, and technology blog sites are abuzz with chatter about choosing between REST…
Read MoreVulnerabilities New and Old Particularly avid readers, or perhaps just readers with a magnifying glass, will note that there are six-and-a-half new vulnerabilities in Figure 3 compared with our November SIS. We say a half-new vulnerability because one of the new ones is indistinguishable from an existing signature. While tuning the pattern for CVE-2022-41040, a…
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