Podcast Generator 3.1 - (Long Description) Persistent Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

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Alleviating ransomware’s legal headaches with Jake Bernstein: Lock and Code S02E08

This week on Lock and Code, we speak to cybersecurity and privacy attorney Jake Bernstein about ransomware attacks that dont just derail a companys reputation and productivity, but also throw them into potential legal peril. In 2020, the cybersecurity community noticed a worrying trend from...

Spotlight on Cybercriminal Supply Chains

An examination of cybercrime ecosystems reveals it mirrors legitimate financial organization and market systems. “Cybercriminals need to move money and pay employees in their organization just like any other company,” said Derek Manky Chief Security Insights & Global Threat Alliances at Fortinet’...

Beers with Talos Ep. #103: ICS/SCADA Security — The permanence and people problems

Beers with Talos BWT Podcast episode No. 103 is now available. Download this episode and subscribe to Beers with Talos:Apple Podcasts Google PodcastsSpotify StitcherIf iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing, click here. By Mitch Neff. Recorded March 2021 ICS and SCADA... This is only the...

A week in security (April 12 – 18)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, our podcast featured Troy Hunt, Chloé Messdaghi, and Tanya Janca who discussed security fatigue with us. We announced the release of the Malwarebytes SMB Cybersecurity Trust & Confidence Report 2021, a first-of-its-kind survey of the hardworking IT professionals on...

Podcast Importer SecondLine < 1.1.5 - Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

The plugin was vulnerable to Server-side request forgery SSRF...

Beers with Talos Ep. #102: Twitter has questions for us

Beers with Talos BWT Podcast episode No. 102 is now available. Download this episode and subscribe to Beers with Talos:Apple Podcasts Google PodcastsSpotify StitcherIf iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing, click here. By Mitch Neff. Recorded Feb. 23, 2021 We’ve been... This is only the...

CVE-2021-24123

Arbitrary file upload in the PowerPress WordPress plugin, versions before 8.3.8, did not verify some of the uploaded feed images such as the ones from Podcast Artwork section, allowing high privilege accounts admin+ being able to upload arbitrary files, such as php, leading to RCE...

Podcast: Ransomware Attacks Exploded in Q4 2020

Ransomware attacks continue to plague companies, with researchers from Fortinet’s Fortiguard Labs saying they saw an explosion in ransomware activity towards the end of the fourth quarter of 2020. Derek Manky According to Fortinet’s new “FortiGuard Labs Threat Report: Disruption Key Threat Trend ...

Beers with Talos Ep. #101: Is security the career you really want?

Beers with Talos BWT Podcast episode No. 101 is now available. Download this episode and subscribe to Beers with Talos:Apple Podcasts Google PodcastsSpotify StitcherIf iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing, click here. By Mitch Neff. Recorded Jan. 22, 2020 – We get a lot of questions in Talos...

Beers with Talos Ep. #100: The supersized centennial episode

Beers with Talos BWT Podcast episode No. 100 is now available. Download this episode and subscribe to Beers with Talos:Apple Podcasts Google PodcastsSpotify StitcherIf iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing, click here. By Mitch Neff. Recorded Jan. 8, 2020. It’s hard to believe that we have mad...

Why Data Privacy Day matters: A Lock and Code special with Mozilla, DuckDuckGo, and EFF

You can read our full-length blog here about the importance of Data Privacy Day and data privacy in general Today is a special day, not just because January 28 marks Data Privacy Day in the United States and in several countries across the world, but because it also marks the return of our hit...

AppSec Bites: A Podcast on Balancing Speed and Thorough AppSec Coverage (Part 1)

In the world today we have all become so accustomed to high-speed delivery and the instant gratification it instills any large 2-day shipping retail monsters come to mind?. Its only natural that the demand for speed and efficiency we are experiencing in our daily lives has expanded to the...

Breaking Down Joe Biden's $10B Cybersecurity 'Down Payment'

President Joe Biden laid out a series of cybersecurity initiatives last week at his inauguration, including earmarking $10 billion for various cybersecurity defense initiatives. Those included hiring key security personnel to support for the Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency CISA. The...

Beers with Talos Ep. #98: Why ransomware actors are (and aren’t) targeting health care

Beers with Talos BWT Podcast episode No. 98 is now available. Download this episode and subscribe to Beers with Talos:Apple Podcasts Google PodcastsSpotify StitcherIf iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing, click here. By Mitch Neff. Recorded early November 2020. This is an episode we recorded ...

CISOs Prep For COVID-19 Exposure Notification in the Workplace

With the potential of employees going back into the workplace on the horizon, chief information security officers CISOs are mulling applications that utilize exposure notifications in order to track COVID-19’s spread in the office. Steve Moore, chief security strategist with Exabeam, said he is...

A Look Ahead at 2021: SolarWinds Fallout and Shifting CISO Budgets

The new year started off with a bang, with the SolarWinds hack revealed in late December acting as a jarring reminder to companies and U.S. government departments alike that cybercriminals continue to successfully exploit security lapses in technology. But beyond the SolarWinds supply-chain...

Taking Inspiration from Our Security Nation in an Otherwise Uninspiring Year

Well, what a year it has been. I won’t waste your time by recapping the many, many difficulties that 2020 has offered us, and instead, I will try to take a slightly different tack. While it has been a challenging for some, truly hellacious year, as we close it out, I’ve been trying out a little...

Beers with Talos Ep. #97: Getting to better security outcomes (feat. Wendy Nather)

Beers with Talos BWT Podcast episode No. 97 is now available. Download this episode and subscribe to Beers with Talos:Apple Podcasts Google PodcastsSpotify StitcherIf iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing, click here. By Mitch Neff. Recorded Nov. 24, 2020 – On this episode, Mitch and Matt are...

DNS Filtering: A Top Battle Front Against Malware and Phishing

Peter Lowe With the proliferation of malicious websites, domain name system DNS filtering has been adopted as an effective method for blacklisting content and blocking out suspicious webpages. Peter Lowe, security researcher with DNSFilter, talks to Cody Hackett on this week’s Threatpost Podcast...