The 5 breach readiness mistakes

The most common mistakes we see in engagements Responding to cyber incidents and data breaches is rarely straightforward. You are generally faced with making on-the-spot critical decisions with little or no real information. This often leads to mistakes. Let’s review some of the common mistakes w...

Maximizing Onboarding: Giving managers the skills for success

Managing teams come with challenges as well as rewards. Managers drive individual and team performance, and the best managers drive employee connection and engagement. Akamai believes that employees are our biggest asset; by effectively and efficiently integrating them into the...

Rethinking Responsibilities and Remedies in Social-Engineering Attacks

In the pantheon of catchy cybersecurity slogans that should never have caught on, two about social engineering spring to mind almost immediately: “End users are the weakest link” and “attackers only have to be lucky once; defenders have to be lucky all the time.” Both of those statements have bee...

CVE-2019-16133

An issue was discovered in eteams OA v4.0.34. Because the session is not strictly checked, the account names and passwords of all employees in the company can be obtained by an ordinary account. Specifically, the attacker sends a jsessionid value for URIs under app/profile/summary/...

5 simple steps to securing your remote employees

As remote working has become standard practice, employees are working from anywhere and using any device they can to get the job done. That means repeated connections to unsecured public Wi-Fi networks—at a coffee shop or juice bar, for example—and higher risks for data leaks from lost, misplaced...

Data Leak Impacts Millions of Yves Rocher Cosmetics Company Customers

UPDATE Cosmetics giant Yves Rocher is warning that a giant data leak exposed the personal data of millions of its customers and reams of sensitive internal company information to the public. The data exposure stems from a database left unprotected by a third-party consultant to the firm...

Sentrifugo 3.2 - Persistent Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Exploit for php platform in category web applications Exploit Title: Sentrifugo 3.2 - Persistent Cross-Site Scripting Exploit Author: creosote Vendor Homepage: http://www.sentrifugo.com/ Version: 3.2 Tested on: Ubuntu 18.04 CVE : CVE-2019-15814 Multiple Stored XSS vulnerabilities were found in...

iNSYNQ Ransom Attack Began With Phishing Email

A ransomware outbreak that hit QuickBooks cloud hosting firm iNSYNQ in mid-July appears to have started with an email phishing attack that snared an employee working in sales for the company, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. It also looks like the intruders spent roughly ten days rooting around...

How AT&T Insiders Were Bribed to 'Unlock' Millions of Phones

One cybersecurity threat that’s proven difficult for wireless carriers to combat? Their own employees...

Honda's Security 'Soft Spots' Exposed in Unsecured Database

An unsecured database belonging to Honda Motor Company was found leaking crucial information about its global systems, including which devices aren’t up-to-date or protected by security solutions. The exposed ElasticSearch database contained approximately 134 million documents, and amounted to...

Siemens Contractor Pleads Guilty to Planting 'Logic Bomb' in Spreadsheets

A former Siemens contractor has pledged guilty in federal court Friday to secretly planting code in automated spreadsheets he had created for the company over a decade ago that deliberately crashes the program every few years. David Tinley, a 62-year-old resident of Harrison City, Pennsylvania, w...

CVE-2019-13403

Temenos CWX version 8.9 has an Broken Access Control vulnerability in the module /CWX/Employee/EmployeeEdit2.aspx, leading to the viewing of user information...

Trend Micro Named Best Company To Work For In Taiwan

Trend Micro prides itself on caring first about people – both in our external mission and internally with our employees. As this issue is close to the hearts of our executives, we are always very proud to be recognized by related awards. The HR Asia Awards Taiwan recently named Trend Micro as one...

EXCELLENT INFOTEK BiYan Information Disclosure Vulnerability (CNVD-2019-18740)

EXCELLENT INFOTEK BiYan is China Taiwan Jieyin information EXCELLENT INFOTEK company's set of document management system. An information disclosure vulnerability exists in EXCELLENT INFOTEK BiYan versions 1.57 through 2.8. The vulnerability can be exploited to disclose user information password b...

A New Approach for Combating Insider Threats

LONDON, UK – As insider attacks continue to plague the enterprise the security community is doubling down on finding new solutions to mitigate against the age-old problem. An insider threat can encompass anything from a gullible employee falling for a spearphishing email, to unaware new hires...

Should Failing Phish Tests Be a Fireable Offense?

Would your average Internet user be any more vigilant against phishing scams if he or she faced the real possibility of losing their job after falling for one too many of these emails? Recently, I met someone at a conference who said his employer had in fact terminated employees for such repeated...

Employee education strategies that work to change behavior

When people make the decision to get in shape, they have to commit the time and energy to do so. Going to the gym once isn’t going to cut it. The same is true when it comes to changing the culture of an organization. In order to be effective in changing employee behavior, training needs to be...

Snapchat Privacy Blunder Piques Concerns About Insider Threats

Snap, the company behind the popular Snapchat social media app, has found itself in hot water after a recent report revealed that Snap employees were abusing their access to private user data – which includes location data, saved Snaps and phone numbers. According to a Thursday Motherboard report...

Nine Charged in Alleged SIM Swapping Ring

Eight Americans and an Irishman have been charged with wire fraud this week for allegedly hijacking mobile phones through SIM-swapping, a form of fraud in which scammers bribe or trick employees at mobile phone stores into seizing control of the target's phone number and diverting all texts and...

Amazon Is Losing the War on Fraudulent Sellers

Excellent article on fraudulent seller tactics on Amazon. The most prominent black hat companies for US Amazon sellers offer ways to manipulate Amazon's ranking system to promote products, protect accounts from disciplinary actions, and crush competitors. Sometimes, these black hat companies brib...