Crypto.com Finally Admits It Lost $30 Million in a Hack

Plus: Scammer arrests, the NSA plays defense, and more of the week's top security news...

CISA, FBI, and NSA Release Cybersecurity Advisory on Russian Cyber Threats to U.S. Critical Infrastructure

CISA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, and the National Security Agency NSA have released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory CSA that provides an overview of Russian state-sponsored cyber operations, including commonly observed tactics, techniques, and procedures. The CSA also provides...

NSA and CISA Release Final Part IV of Guidance on Securing 5G Cloud Infrastructures

CISA has announced the joint National Security Agency NSA and CISA publication of the final of a four-part series, Security Guidance for 5G Cloud Infrastructures. Part IV: Ensure Integrity of Cloud Infrastructure focuses on platform integrity, microservices infrastructure integrity, launch time...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, December 2021 Edition

Microsoft, Adobe, and Google all issued security updates to their products today. The Microsoft patches include six previously disclosed security flaws, and one that is already being actively exploited. But this months Patch Tuesday is overshadowed by the "Log4Shell" 0-day exploit in a popular Ja...

How to Buy Precious Patching Time as Log4j Exploits Fly

Sure, Apache got a patch out fast when the Log4j logging library vulnerability – aka Javageddon or “up there with Shellshock” – exploded last week. But emergency patches take days best-case scenario or weeks to install: plenty of time for attackers to do their worst. Which they lickety-split did,...

Exploit for Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Siemens 6Bk1602-0Aa12-0Tp0_Firmware

CVE-2021-44228-Advisories Please open Issues to include an adv...

Zero Day in Ubiquitous Apache Log4j Tool Under Active Attack

An excruciating, easily exploited flaw in the ubiquitous Java logging library Apache Log4j could allow unauthenticated remote code execution RCE and complete server takeover — and it’s being exploited in the wild. The flaw first turned up on sites that cater to users of the world’s favorite game,...

NSA and CISA Release Part III of Guidance on Securing 5G Cloud Infrastructures

CISA has announced the joint National Security Agency NSA and CISA publication of the third of a four-part series, Security Guidance for 5G Cloud Infrastructures. Part III: Data Protection examines security during all phases of the data lifecycle—in transit, in use, and at rest. The guidance...

NSA and CISA Release Guidance on Securing 5G Cloud Infrastructures

CISA has announced the joint National Security Agency NSA and CISA publication of the second of a four-part series, Security Guidance for 5G Cloud Infrastructures. Part II: Securely Isolate Network Resources examines threats to 5G container-centric or hybrid container/virtual network, also known ...

RE:WIRED 2021: Jen Easterly Wants Hackers to Help US Cyber Defense

The retired Army officer played offense at the NSA and the Pentagon. Now she's learning to play defense...

NSA-CISA Series on Securing 5G Cloud Infrastructures

The National Security Agency NSA and CISA have published the first of a four-part series, Security Guidance for 5G Cloud Infrastructures. Security Guidance for 5G Cloud Infrastructures – Part I: Prevent and Detect Lateral Movement provides recommendations for mitigating lateral movement attempts ...

Debian: Security Advisory (DLA-2788-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-4989-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Protect yourself from BlackMatter ransomware: Advice issued

Despite promises made by the BlackMatter ransomware gang about which organizations and business types they would avoid, multiple US critical infrastructure entities have been targeted. Now, the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, in conjunction with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security...

[SECURITY] [DSA 4989-1] strongswan security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-4989-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Yves-Alexis Perez October 18, 2021 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

BlackMatter Ransomware

Summary Actions You Can Take Now to Protect Against BlackMatter Ransomware • Implement and enforce backup and restoration policies and procedures. • Usestrong, unique passwords. • Usemulti-factor authentication. • Implement network segmentation and traversal monitoring. Note: this advisory uses t...

NSA Releases Guidance on Avoiding the Dangers of Wildcard TLS Certificates and ALPACA Techniques

The National Security Agency NSA has released a Cybersecurity Information CSI sheet with guidance to help secure the Department of Defense, National Security Systems, and Defense Industrial Base organizations from poorly implemented wildcard Transport Layer Security TLS certificates and the...

Hardening Your VPN

The NSA and CISA have released a document on how to harden your VPN...

Microsoft, CISA and NSA offer security tools and advice, but will you take it?

Microsoft offers to help you with patching Exchange servers, CISA offers an insider threat tool, and together with the NSA they offer advice on how to choose and harden your VPN. These initiatives from major parties aim to help organizations assess and manage their security needs. But will they...

CISA and NSA Release Guidance on Selecting and Hardening VPNs

The National Security Agency NSA and CISA have released the cybersecurity information sheet Selecting and Hardening Standards-based Remote Access VPN Solutions to address the potential security risks associated with using Virtual Private Networks VPNs. Remote-access VPN servers allow off-site use...