Defending Assets You Don’t Know About Against Cyberattacks

Back in the 90s, we all used to build massive firewalls around our systems and spent our day-to-day resources looking for holes to patch. In theory, an impenetrable wall around everything you own is a great idea, because it protects even the things you’ve forgotten about. However, if a wall is yo...

CVE-2021-41127

Rasa is an open source machine learning framework to automate text-and voice-based conversations. In affected versions a vulnerability exists in the functionality that loads a trained model tar.gz file which allows a malicious actor to craft a model.tar.gz file which can overwrite or replace bot...

Problems with Multifactor Authentication

Roger Grimes on why multifactor authentication isnt a panacea: The first time I heard of this issue was from a Midwest CEO. His organization had been hit by ransomware to the tune of $10M. Operationally, they were still recovering nearly a year later. And, embarrassingly, it was his most trusted ...

Employees Make Best Frontline Phishing Defense

The cybersecurity good news and bad news about phishing attacks is employees can be an enterprise’s weakest link or strongest first line of defense. Yes, we are talking about inboxes, human nature and the increasingly sophisticated number of phishing attacks. The Federal Bureau of Investigation...

Adobe Connect Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability (CNVD-2021-101533)

Adobe Connect is a suite of software for remote training, web conferencing, presentations and desktop sharing. A reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in Adobe Connect 11.2.2 and earlier versions. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code...

Deserialization Vulnerability in Adobe Connect Untrusted Data

Adobe Connect is a suite of software for remote training, web conferencing, presentations and desktop sharing. A deserialization of untrusted data vulnerability exists in Adobe Connect 11.2.2 and earlier versions. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code...

Podcast: 67% of Orgs Have Been Hit by Ransomware at Least Once

A recent report found that two-thirds, or 67 percent, of surveyed organizations have suffered a ransomware attack, about half have been hit multiple times, and 16 percent have been hit three or more times. According to Fortinet’s Global State of Ransomware Report 2021 PDF, released last week, mos...

A week in security (Oct 4 – Oct 10)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs Does Cybersecurity Awareness Month actually improve security? Police take a piece out of a ransomware gang, but won’t say which one Neiman Marcus data breach affects millions Windows 11 is out. Is it any good for security? Criminals were inside Syniverse for 5 years...

Making better cybersecurity training: Q&A with Malwarebytes expert Kelsey Prichard

If you hadn’t noticed by now, we are in the first week of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, which, according to the Cybersecurity Infrastructure and Security Agency in the United States, means that we should all consider how people, organizations, and businesses can “be cyber smart” this ye...

CISA Releases Guidance: TIC 3.0 Remote User Use Case

In coordination with the Office of Management and Budget OMB, the Federal Chief Information Security Officer Council FCISO Trusted Internet Connections TIC Subcommittee, and the General Services Administration, CISA has released Trusted Internet Connections 3.0 Remote User Use Case. The Remote Us...

#BeCyberSmart: When we learn together, we’re more secure together

2021 has been a watershed year in cybersecurity. The pandemic continued to bring new challenges as attackers took advantage of overstretched security teams to unleash new human-operated ransomware1, malware, and nation-state attacks like those against Colonial Pipeline2 and JBS Food3. With the mo...

Teaching cybersecurity skills to special needs children with Alana Robinson: Lock and Code S02E18

School is fully back in session for kids all across the world, and for many students, that means logging back online to learn, do homework, submit assignments, and maybe even continue some distance learning, depending on their schools pandemic precautions. But with more Internet activity comes...

Exploit for Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output in F5 Nginx

This is an offensive tool for web application security training. It is a collection of vulnerable web applications, each with its own set of vulnerabilities, designed to help users learn and practice web application security testing. The repository contains a variety of web applications, includin...

Akamai’s Flagship Customer Enablement Program, Akamai University, Wins Gold “Excellence in Learning” Award

The Technical Enablement and Education team, part of Akamai’s Global Services organization, has won a coveted Brandon Hall Group Gold award for “Best Customer Training Program,” for Akamai’s flagship customer training and enablement program, Akamai University...

Honing Cybersecurity Strategy When Everyone’s a Target for Ransomware

These days, ransomware is seemingly ubiquitous. No longer just a discussion topic for cybersecurity professionals and researchers, these days it seems like rarely a week goes by when it’s not in the mainstream media. It’s rapidly become a commonplace word, and in some respects, this increased...

vulhub

This repository is an offensive tool for creating pre-built vulnerable environments based on Docker-Compose. It is a collection of vulnerable applications and services that can be used for testing and training purposes. The repository includes a variety of vulnerable applications, such as CouchDB...

CVE-2021-39207

parlai is a framework for training and evaluating AI models on a variety of openly available dialogue datasets. In affected versions the package is vulnerable to YAML deserialization attack caused by unsafe loading which leads to Arbitary code execution. This security bug is patched by avoiding...

my.dynamictraining.org.uk Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-2131976

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspa. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspb. notified the website operator about its existence...

Get Lifetime Access to 24 Professional Cybersecurity Certification Prep Courses

Not all heroes wear capes. Cybersecurity professionals are digital warriors who use their knowledge and skill to battle malicious hackers. Sounds like an exciting career, right? If the comic-book comparisons aren't working for you, perhaps some figures will. According to ZipRecruiter, the average...

Experts: WH Cybersecurity Summit Should Be Followed by Regulation, Enforcement

Cataclysmic breaches and a woeful shortage of a trained cybersecurity workforce prompted the Biden Administration to haul a collection of the biggest names in business into a White House cybersecurity summit this week, to talk about what they plan to do about it. The outcome of the talks falls...