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Making Azure Sentinel work for you
Microsoft Azure Sentinel is the first Security Incident and Event Management SIEM solution built into a major public cloud platform that delivers intelligent security analytics across enterprise environments and offers automatic scalability to meet changing needs. This new white paper outlines be...
Inside Microsoft Threat Protection: Correlating and consolidating attacks into incidents
Cybersecurity incidents are never contained to just one of your organization’s assets. Most attacks involve multiple elements across domains, including email, endpoints, identities, and applications. To rapidly understand and address incidents, your Security Operations Center SOC analysts need to...
The Incident Response Challenge 2020 — Results and Solutions Announced
In April 2020, Cynet launched the world's first Incident Response Challenge to test and reward the skills of Incident Response professionals. The Challenge consisted of 25 incidents, in increasing difficulty, all inspired by real-life scenarios that required participants to go beyond the textbook...
The Incident Response Challenge 2020 — Results and Solutions Announced
In April 2020, Cynet launched the world's first Incident Response Challenge to test and reward the skills of Incident Response professionals. The Challenge consisted of 25 incidents, in increasing difficulty, all inspired by real-life scenarios that required participants to go beyond the textbook...
Testimonials Widget < 4.0.0 - Multiple Authenticated Stored XSS
Multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in Testimonials Widget 3.5.1 and lower allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary Javascript code or HTML via the below parameters: - Author - Job Title - Location - Company - Email - URL Successful exploitation of this vulnerability would allow...
Facebook Privacy Glitch Gave 5K Developers Access to ‘Expired’ Data
Facebook is facing yet another privacy faux pas in how its users’ data is collected and used by third-party apps. The social media giant said that it recently discovered that 5,000 developers received data from Facebook users — long after their access to that data should have expired. In 2018, on...
StrongPity APT Back with Kurdish-Aimed Watering Hole Attacks
The APT group known as StrongPity is back with a new watering-hole campaign, targeting mainly Kurdish victims in Turkey and Syria. The malware served offers operators the ability to search for and exfiltrate any file or document from a victim’s machine. The group a.k.a. Promethium is operating a...
'Satori' IoT DDoS Botnet Operator Sentenced to 13 Months in Prison
The United States Department of Justice yesterday sentenced a 22-year-old Washington-based hacker to 13 months in federal prison for his role in creating botnet malware, infecting a large number of systems with it, and then abusing those systems to carry out large scale distributed...
Identifying a Person Based on a Photo, LinkedIn and Etsy Profiles, and Other Internet Bread Crumbs
Interesting story of how the police can identify someone by following the evidence chain from website to website. According to filings in Blumenthal's case, FBI agents had little more to go on when they started their investigation than the news helicopter footage of the woman setting the police c...
Forrester Study: VMware Carbon Black Cloud Provides 379% ROI
A newly published Forrester Consulting Total Economic Impact TEI study shows that organizations who replace their legacy endpoint security products with the VMware Carbon Black Cloud experience a 379% return on investment within three years. The commissioned study conducted on behalf of VMware al...
Going dark: encryption and law enforcement
UPDATE, 05/22/2020: In the advent of the EARN IT Act, the debate on government subversion of encryption has reignited. Given that the material conditions of the technology have not changed, and the arguments given in favor of the bill are not novel, we've decided to republish the following blog...
TAU Technical Report: New Attack Combines TinyPOS With Living-off-the-Land Techniques for Scraping Credit Card Data
In April of 2020 VMware Carbon Black Threat Analysis Unit TAU researchers worked with an Incident Response IR partner on a piece of malware that was discovered during an ongoing PCI investigation. The combined analysis showed that attackers who previously leveraged a malware family called TinyPOS...
Success in security: reining in entropy
Your network is unique. It’s a living, breathing system evolving over time. Data is created. Data is processed. Data is accessed. Data is manipulated. Data can be forgotten. The applications and users performing these actions are all unique parts of the system, adding degrees of disorder and...
[Guide] Finding Best Security Outsourcing Alternative for Your Organization
As cyberattacks continue to proliferate in volume and increase in sophistication, many organizations acknowledge that some part of their breach protection must be outsourced, introducing a million-dollar question of what type of service to choose form. Today, Cynet releases the Security Outsourci...
[Guide] Finding Best Security Outsourcing Alternative for Your Organization
As cyberattacks continue to proliferate in volume and increase in sophistication, many organizations acknowledge that some part of their breach protection must be outsourced, introducing a million-dollar question of what type of service to choose form. Today, Cynet releases the Security Outsourci...
British Airline EasyJet Suffers Data Breach Exposing 9 Million Customers' Data
British low-cost airline EasyJet today admitted that the company has fallen victim to a cyber-attack, which it labeled "highly sophisticated," exposing email addresses and travel details of around 9 million of its customers. In an official statement released today, EasyJet confirmed that of the 9...
USN-4360-3 json-c regression
USN-4360-1 fixed a vulnerability in json-c. The security fix introduced a memory leak in some scenarios. This update reverts the security fix pending further investigation. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: It was discovered that json-c incorrectly handled certain JSO...
Healthcare Giant Magellan Struck with Ransomware, Data Breach
UPDATE Magellan Health, the Fortune 500 insurance company, has reported a ransomware attack and a data breach. The company, which says it “empowers 1 in 10 Americans to lead healthier, more vibrant lives” according to its website, said the incident was discovered on April 11. It also said that it...
RevenueWire to pay $6.7 million to settle FTC charges
What can you do as a scammer when no legitimate payment provider wants to process your payments anymore? Or, what if you are growing sick and tired of these same payment providers reimbursing disgruntled customers who claim that your products didn't fix computers, like—you know—you said they woul...
