Securing Remote Work: More Connectivity and Visibility

When the pandemic hit, no one knew the impact it was going to have on the world. And while having connectivity and visibility became increasingly important for humanity, it also quickly became central for employees to work from home securely...

Freedom, Flexibility, and Security: The Future of Remote Work

Over the past few months, many digital heavy enterprises have optimized or transformed their operations to bolster business continuity and resilience. One of these changes is implementing remote work policies, as employees have shifted to work from home, indefinitely. And while life stills feel...

Twitter: Epic Account Hack Caused by Mobile Spearphishing Scam

A mobile spearphishing attack targeting “a small number of employees” is what led to the unprecedented, major attack earlier in the month on high-profile Twitter accounts to push out a Bitcoin scam. The company posted an update late Thursday on the situation, which has been unfolding since July 1...

Guiding principles of our identity strategy: staying ahead of evolving customer needs

Last June, when I shared the 5 principles driving a customer-obsessed identity strategy at Microsoft, many of you had embraced the idea of a boundaryless environment, but relatively few had implemented it in practice. A global pandemic made remote access essential and forced many of you to...

Twitter Hacking for Profit and the LoLs

The New York Times last week ran an interview with several young men who claimed to have had direct contact with those involved in last weeks epic hack against Twitter. These individuals said they were only customers of the person who had access to Twitters internal employee tools, and were not...

Twitter Hack Update: What We Know (and What We Don't)

UPDATED 7/18 at 12:50 p.m. ET Earlier this week, Twitter locked down thousands of verified accounts, including the accounts of Joe Biden, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Apple, Uber and others, after it became clear that hackers had been able to compromise them. The tip-off? Suddenly these high-profile...

Who’s Behind Wednesday’s Epic Twitter Hack?

Twitter was thrown into chaos on Wednesday after accounts for some of the world's most recognizable public figures, executives and celebrities starting tweeting out links to bitcoin scams. Twitter says the attack happened because someone tricked or coerced an employee into providing access to...

Twitter Confirms it was Hacked in an Unprecedented Cryptocurrency Scam

Twitter locked down thousands of verified accounts belonging to elite Twitter users and high-profile companies Wednesday afternoon in an effort to prevent hackers from perpetrating a massive cryptocurrency scam. The accounts fell victim to a compromise of the company’s internal systems by a group...

CVE-2020-14982

A Blind SQL Injection vulnerability in Kronos WebTA 3.8.x and later before 4.0 affecting the com.threeis.webta.H352premPayRequest servlet's SortBy parameter allows an attacker with the Employee, Supervisor, or Timekeeper role to read sensitive data from the database...

The Only Constant Is Change -- Rethinking Secure Access for a New Workforce

It seems like a long time ago now when IT teams had their annual strategy meeting, where topics related to network modernization with SASE or SD-WANs, remote access, threat prevention, and cloud adoption were likely discussed. COVID-19, however, has caused a lot of these initiatives to take a...

No jail for Yahoo employee who used internal system to hack 6k accounts

By Sudais Asif The hacker and former Yahoo employee has been sentenced... This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: No jail for Yahoo employee who used internal system to hack 6k accounts...

Survey: Employee Security Training is Essential to Remote Working Success

Organisations have been forced to adapt rapidly over the past few months as government lockdowns kept most workers to their homes. For many, the changes they’ve made may even become permanent as more distributed working becomes the norm. This has major implications for cybersecurity. Employees ar...

Snapchat: Leaked JFrog Artifactory username and password exposed on GitHub - https://snapchat.jfrog.io

Researcher found valid jFrog credentials which were committed to a public Github repository of a Snap employee. This allowed access to internal Snap libraries/artifacts along with the ability to push updates to existing artifacts as well...

SQL injection vulnerability in the wa***.aspx page of Qixing Exam System Exam Candidate Side at Shanghai Tsuenlu Software Development Studio.

Exam System Exam is a compact exam system for internal corporate use for employee exams. Shanghai Tsuen Road Software Development Studio Qixing Exam System Exam candidate side wa.aspx page there is a SQL injection vulnerability, an attacker can use this vulnerability to obtain sensitive informati...

Work From Home Opens New Remote Insider Threats

Employees working from home face a new world of workplace challenges. With childcare facilities mostly closed, many are juggling crying babies or barking dogs, all while tending to job responsibilities. Under those conditions mistakes happen, like sending an email – with critical internal company...

Facebook's FTC-Mandated Privacy Committee Now in Effect

Facebook on Thursday said it has started to report its privacy practices to a newly formed, independent Privacy Committee. The creation of the independent committee was part of the company’s settlement a year ago with the Federal Trade Commission FTC over data privacy violations, which came in...

Knoxville Ransomware Attack Leads to IT Network Shutdown

The city of Knoxville, Tenn. is reeling from a ransomware attack that knocked the city’s network offline and prevented police officers from responding to non-life-threatening traffic crashes. The incident occurred Wednesday and shuttered systems until Thursday. Also impacted was the city’s intern...

U.S. Nuclear Contractor Hit with Maze Ransomware, Data Leaked

A U.S. military contractor involved in the maintenance of the country’s Minuteman III nuclear arsenal has been hit by the Maze ransomware, according to reports – with the hackers making off with reams of sensitive information. The company, Westech International, has a range of contracts with the...

Smartsheet: Smartsheet employees email disclosure through enpoint after login.

Summary: add summary of the vulnerability After login - while validating this issue 858974 - I notice there is an endpoint call /b/home?formName=webop&formAction=SheetLabLoadData&to=68000&ssv=98.0.2 that is bringing emails from some employees. Steps To Reproduce: add details for how we can...

10 best practices for MSPs to secure their clients and themselves from ransomware

Lock-downs and social distancing may be on, but when it comes to addressing the need for IT support—whether by current of potential clients—it’s business as usual for MSPs. And, boy, is it a struggle. On the one hand, they keep an eye on their remote workers to ensure they’re still doing their jo...