5 cybersecurity tips for students going back to school

The new school season is just around the corner. And while you are getting ready to go back to school, now is a good opportunity to check you are doing all you can to stay as safe as possible online. Make sure you are doing these five things: 1. Use multi-factor authentication MFA MFA has become ...

Palo Alto Networks Releases Security Update for PAN-OS

Palo Alto Networks has released a security update to address a vulnerability in PAN-OS firewall configurations. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to conduct a reflected denial-of service. CISA encourages users and administrators to review the Palo Alto Networks Security Advisory...

CISA Releases Cybersecurity Toolkit to Protect U.S. Elections

CISA—through the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative JCDC—has released a toolkit of free cybersecurity resources for the election community. The toolkit aims to help state and local government officials, election officials, and vendors enhance the cybersecurity and cyber resilience of U.S. election...

Will Europe Force a Facebook Blackout?

Regulators are close to stopping Meta from sending EU data to the US, bringing a years-long privacy battle to a head...

Microsoft Releases August 2022 Security Updates

Microsoft has released updates to address multiple vulnerabilities in Microsoft software. An attacker can exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. CISA encourages users and administrators to review Microsoft’s August 2022 Security Update Guide and Deployment...

VMware Releases Security Updates

VMware has released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities in vRealize Operations. A remote attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. CISA encourages users and administrators to review VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2022-0022 and appl...

Twitter data breach affects 5.4M users

Twitter has confirmed that it was breached last month via a now-patched 0-day vulnerability in Twitters systems, allowing an attacker to link email addresses and phone numbers to user accounts. This enabled the attacker to compile a list of 5.4 million Twitter user account profiles. "We want to l...

Adobe Releases Security Updates for Multiple Products

Adobe has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in multiple products. An attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. CISA encourages users and administrators to review the following Adobe Security Bulletins and apply the necessary...

A Phone Carrier That Doesn’t Track Your Browsing or Location

The new Pretty Good Phone Privacy service for Android hides the data linking you to your mobile device...

Five Data Security Controls and Processes you Must Bring to Cloud-native Infrastructures

Too frequently, there are significant misunderstandings in organizations with regard to who has the responsibility to protect cloud-hosted data. In Imperva’s recent report, A Data-Centric Cybersecurity Framework for Digital Transformation, IT analyst and author Richard Stiennon explains what...

A week in security (August 1 – 7)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Have we lost the fight for data privacy? Lock and Code S03E16 Wrestling star Mick Foley’s Twitter compromised, selling PS5 consoles Millions of Arris routers are vulnerable to path traversal attacks When a sextortion victim fights back How to protect yourself and...

A week in security (August 1 - August 7)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Have we lost the fight for data privacy? Lock and Code S03E16 Wrestling star Mick Foleys Twitter compromised, selling PS5 consoles Millions of Arris routers are vulnerable to path traversal attacks When a sextortion victim fights back How to protect yourself and yo...

CVE-2022-33728

CVE-2022-33728 concerns Samsung Mobile devices where Bluetooth before SMR Aug-2022 Release 1 exposes the connected Bluetooth MAC address via Settings.Global. The issue is local: an attacker on the device can access the MAC address without user interaction. Root cause is a leakage in Bluetooth set...

CVE-2020-4440

IBM OpenPages with Watson has addressed CVE-2020-4440, a reverse tabnabbing vulnerability. An authenticated user could replace a page with a phishing site to harvest sensitive information. Affected product: IBM OpenPages with Watson v8.1. CVSS Base score 6.5. Remediation: apply IBM OpenPages with...

CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog

CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. These types of vulnerabilities are a frequent attack vector for malicious cyber actors and pose significant risk to the federal enterprise. Note: to view the newly added...

Cisco Releases Security Updates for RV Series Routers

Cisco has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in Cisco Small Business RV160, RV260, RV340, and RV345 Series Routers. A remote attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. For updates addressing lower severity vulnerabilities, see the...

F5 Releases Security Updates

F5 has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in multiple products. A privileged attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. CISA encourages users and administrators to review the F5 security advisories and apply the necessary updates...

For months, JusTalk messages were accessible to everyone on the Internet

JusTalk, a popular mobile video calling and messaging app with 20 million global users, exposed a massive database of supposedly private messages to the public Internet for months. According to security researcher Anurag Sen, who discovered the open database, the messages were stored unencrypted,...

VMware Releases Security Updates

VMware has released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities in VMware’s Workspace ONE Access, Access Connector, Identity Manager, Identity Manager Connector, and vRealize Automation. A remote attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system...

CISA and ACSC Release Top 2021 Malware Strains

CISA and the Australian Cyber Security Centre ACSC have published a joint Cybersecurity Advisory on the top malware strains observed in 2021. Malicious cyber actors often use malware to covertly compromise and then gain access to a computer or mobile device. As malicious cyber actors have been...