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The greatest threat facing most nations is no longer a standing army. It's a hacker with a computer who can launch a crippling cyber attack from thousands of miles away—potentially taking down everything from server farms to entire power grids with a few lines of code. So it should come as no...

The FireEye OT-CSIO: An Ontology to Understand, Cross-Compare, and Assess Operational Technology Cyber Security Incidents

The FireEye Operational Technology Cyber Security Incident Ontology OT-CSIO While the number of threats to operational technology OT have significantly increased since the discovery of Stuxnet – driven by factors such as the growing convergence with information technology IT networks and the...

Microsoft Blacklists Dozens of New File Extensions in Outlook

Microsoft is banning almost 40 new types of file extensions on its Outlook email platform. The aim is to protect email users from what it deems “at-risk” file attachments, which are typically sent with malicious scripts or executables. The move will prevent users from downloading email attachment...

Canadian Centre for Cyber Security Releases Advisory on New Ransomware Campaign

The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security CCCS has released an advisory on a new ransomware campaign. The malware, named TFlower, may infect users via exposed, unpatched Remote Desktop Protocol RDP services. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA encourages administrators to revie...

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I'm speaking at University College London on September 23, 2019. I'm speaking at World's Top 50 Innovators 2019 at the Royal Society in London on September 24, 2019. I'm speaking at Cyber Security Nordic in Helsinki, Finland on...

US Sanctions 3 North Korean Hacking Groups Accused for Global Cyber Attacks

The United States Treasury Department on Friday announced sanctions against three state-sponsored North Korean hacking groups for conducting several destructive cyberattacks on US critical infrastructure. Besides this, the hacking groups have also been accused of stealing possibly hundreds of...

CVE-2019-11279: Privilege Escalation via Scope Manipulation in UAA | Cloud Foundry

Severity High Vendor Cloud Foundry Foundation Affected Cloud Foundry Products and Versions UAA Release All versions prior to v74.1.0 Description CF UAA versions prior to 74.1.0 can request scopes for a client that shouldn’t be allowed by submitting an array of requested scopes. A remote malicious...

Wikipedia suffers DDoS attack causing worldwide service disruption

By Waqas The DDoS attack on Wikipedia is first of its kind. The popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia has suffered a DDoS attack over the weekend that crippled its service preventing millions of users from accessing the platform. On Friday according to Down Detector's Outage Map, a service that...

lusk.cz Cross Site Scripting vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-958640 Security Researcher KhanJanny Helped patch 3065 vulnerabilities Received 9 Coordinated Disclosure badges Received 38 recommendations , a holder of 9 badges for responsible and coordinated disclosure, found a security vulnerability affecting lusk.cz website and its...

Ransomware Protection Strategies

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has observed an increase in ransomware attacks across the Nation. Helping organizations protect themselves from ransomware is a chief priority for CISA. Organizations are encouraged to review the following resources to help prevent,...

Potential Hurricane Dorian Cyber Scams

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA warns users to remain vigilant for malicious cyber activity targeting Hurricane Dorian disaster victims and potential donors. Fraudulent emails commonly appear after major natural disasters and often contain links or attachments that direc...

TGI Fridays Delivers Customer Indigestion Over Data Exposure

Customers of TGI Fridays Australia were “strongly recommended” to change their MyFridays membership rewards program passwords. According to an email sent to customers this week, the company had inadvertently left sensitive loyalty program data exposed on the internet. News of the leaky server...

CB Partner Spotlight Series: Slipstream Cyber Security

Slipstream Cyber Security is a managed cyber-security service provider enterprise with a Cyber Security Operations Centre CSOC is located in Perth, Western Australia. Staffed by experienced security professionals with backgrounds in cyber operations, anti-fraud, intelligence and more, the team...

Solving the Cyber Security Problem: Mission Impossible

By Ian Trump Why nothing is working in cyber security? Solving the Security Problem: Mission Impossible - Cyber Securities Book of Revelations. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Solving the Cyber Security Problem: Mission Impossible...

CVE-2019-1172

An information disclosure vulnerability exists in Azure Active Directory AAD Microsoft Account MSA during the login request session. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could take over a user's account. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would have to trick a user into...

Lessons from a CISO: 15 Ways to Do More with Less

This post originally appeared in Carbon Black's User Exchange Community. I’ve learned a ton of lessons over my years in the InfoSec world. I’ve made a lot of the right calls, but also a bunch of wrong ones. One of the lessons I have learned is how to operate in an environment of scarcity. This...

Threat Source newsletter (Aug. 1, 2019)

Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week. Are you heading to Vegas next week for Hacker Summer Camp? Talos will. We’ll be at Black Hat and DEFCON holding a series of talks, takin...

CIS Releases Newsletter on Cleaning Up Data and Devices

The Center for Internet Security CIS July Newsletter reminds users to properly dispose of old or unused data and devices. Without careful management of online accounts, cloud storage, physical storage, and electronic devices, users could inadvertently disclose sensitive information that can be...

CISA Releases Advisory on Wind River VxWorks Platform

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has released an Industrial Control Systems ICS Advisory on multiple vulnerabilities in the Wind River VxWorks Platform. A remote attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. CISA encourages...

WannaCry hero Marcus Hutchin aka MalwareTech won’t serve prison time

By Uzair Amir The British cyber security researcher and WannaCry ransomware hero Marcus Hutchin was initially facing up to 10 years in a US prison. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: WannaCry hero Marcus Hutchin aka MalwareTech won't serve prison time...