How IT leaders are securing identities with Zero Trust

The past twelve months have been a remarkable time of digital transformation as organizations, and especially digital security teams, adapt to working remotely and shifting business operations. IT leaders everywhere turned to Zero Trust approaches to alleviate the challenges of enabling and...

How IT leaders are securing identities with Zero Trust

The past twelve months have been a remarkable time of digital transformation as organizations, and especially digital security teams, adapt to working remotely and shifting business operations. IT leaders everywhere turned to Zero Trust approaches to alleviate the challenges of enabling and...

Latest round of OCR audits highlight HIPAA risk analysis and risk management shortcomings

The Office for Civil Rights OCR at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services HHS has released its latest report with findings from their 2016 and 2017 series of audits as required under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 HIPAA/HITECH Privacy, Security, and Brea...

SolarWinds SUNBURST Backdoor Supply Chain Attack: What You Need to Know

On Dec. 12, 2020, FireEye provided detailed information on a widespread attack campaign involving a backdoored component of the SolarWinds Orion platform, which is used by organizations to monitor and manage IT infrastructure. FireEye has given the campaign an identifier of UNC2452 and is further...

Cyberattacks against machine learning systems are more common than you think

Machine learning ML is making incredible transformations in critical areas such as finance, healthcare, and defense, impacting nearly every aspect of our lives. Many businesses, eager to capitalize on advancements in ML, have not scrutinized the security of their ML systems. Today, along with...

Imperva 收购 jSonar： 新一代数据安全

我很高兴地宣布，Imperva 已达成收购 jSonar 的协议！我们认为，jSonar 令人难以置信的产品和技术与我们保护数据和所有通往数据的路径的使命完美契合。合并之后，我们将能够提供一种全新的数据安全方法，帮助企业满足当前和未来的需求。 Imperva，数据安全的先驱 Imperva 成立于 18 年前，其理念是通过融合应用程序和数据安全来保护组织的数字资产和信息。2020 年，全球最大的公司告诉我们一个道理，所有的安全性（包括网络和应用程序）最终目的都是为了保护数据。从长远来看，网络的存在是为了把人们带到应用程序中，而应用程序则负责读写数据。Imperva...

New OCR-ready risk analysis: Why the confusion?

Are you ready for an Office for Civil Rights OCR investigation? Will your risk analysis and risk management methodologies and documents be sufficient to meet the HIPAA Security Rule?...

Cybersecurity Risk Management – From HIPAA to HITRUST

Cybersecurity risk management for healthcare organizations continues to be a perplexing issue. While it is explicit in the security management standard of the HIPAA Security Rule that a Covered Entity and their Business Associates must conduct an "accurate and thorough" risk analysis teamed with ...

The Insecurity of WordPress and Apache Struts

Interesting data: A study that analyzed all the vulnerability disclosures between 2010 and 2019 found that around 55% of all the security bugs that have been weaponized and exploited in the wild were for two major application frameworks, namely WordPress and Apache Struts. The Drupal content...

Jeopardize - A Low(Zero) Cost Threat Intelligence & Response Tool Against Phishing Domains

Jeopardize tool is developed to provide basic threat intelligence&response capabilities against phishing domains at the minimum cost as possible. It detects registered phishing domain candidates typosquatting, homograph etc., analyzes them and assigns a risk score to them. After then, it sends...

How to Model Risk in an Apex Predator Cyber-World

The threat-intelligence researchers at Alphabet’s Chronicle have borrowed the apex predator concept from ecology to describe today’s multi-organizational, multinational threat actors — the evolution of which could provoke an overhaul of risk analysis and management. However, it’s important to kee...

HIPAA Complaints, OCR Investigations, and Security Risk Analysis for Healthcare Delivery Organizations – A Common Thread

Many HIPAA covered entities CEs and business associates BAs may not be meeting the regulatory mandate as defined in §164.308a1iiA of the HIPAA Security Rule. This implementation specification requires that healthcare delivery organizations HDOs "Conduct an accurate and thorough assessment of the...

Google Updates reCAPTCHA: No More Boxes to Check

Google this week has rolled out its latest version of the reCAPTCHA mechanism, which is meant to weed out spam and abuse by robots on websites. It marks a dramatic departure from previous reCAPTCHA efforts by eliminating the need for visitors to take any extra steps in order to log onto a website...

Assessing the Human Element in Cyber Risk Analysis

Seventeen percent of data breaches started as social engineering attacks, mostly from email, according to the most recent Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report. In general, employee errors, such as sending an email to the wrong person, also accounted for 17 percent of breaches. Here in lies t...

Meltdown and Spectre Aren’t Business as Usual

The new year brought a new vulnerability type — the CPU-based Meltdown and Spectre bugs — that’s forcing vendors and IT departments to modify long-standing ways of identifying threats, prioritizing remediation, managing patches and evaluating risk. “Meltdown and Spectre are different...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID31285: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on November 14, 2017

Medium Alert ID: 55910 First Published: 2017 November 14 14:50 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID31285 may contain the following files: Name |...

REDDOXX Appliance Undocumented Administrative Service Account

Advisory: Undocumented Administrative Service Account in REDDOXX Appliance RedTeam Pentesting discovered an undocumented service account in the REDDOXX appliance software, which allows attackers to access the administrative interface of the appliance and change its configuration. Details =======...

Q&A: Conducting Cloud-Based Vendor Risk Audits With Qualys SAQ

Third-party security assessments drastically reduce your organization’s risk of suffering a data breach. When carried out properly, these assessments identify poor InfoSec and privacy practices among your vendors, partners, contractors, and other third parties with access to your IT systems and...

GDPR Readiness – Calculate Your Return on Security Investment (ROSI)

What is the cost of a data breach? Assuming annual revenue of £30M, a single fine could be as much as a whopping £1.2M—the maximum 4%—when the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation GDPR becomes effective in May 2018. Compare that to a database control cost factor of £750K, the cost ...

B+B SmartWorx VESP211 Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

OVERVIEW Independent researcher Maxim Rupp has identified an authentication bypass vulnerability in B+B SmartWorx’s VESP211 serial servers. B+B SmartWorx has produced an implementation plan to mitigate this vulnerability. This vulnerability could be exploited remotely. AFFECTED PRODUCTS The...