The Window to Rein In Facial Recognition Is Closing

As Congress continues to punt on facial recognition, advocacy groups have redoubled their efforts...

CB Customer Spotlight: Q&A with Ritter Insurance Marketing’s Dan McLellan

Dan McLellan is a Network Support Specialist at Ritter Insurance Marketing, and uses the Carbon Black community to increase his security knowledge and share information with his colleagues. Having access to insights from other security professionals has not only shortened the time he spends tryin...

Twitter Draws Data Privacy Concerns with Two New Bugs

Two recently-patched flaws in Twitter’s platform have reignited concerns about user data-privacy issues. On Monday, the social-media giant revealed a hole that accidentally enabled bad actors to pull the country codes of accounts’ phone numbers – and revealed that several IP addresses located in...

Top 5 Threat Hunting Myths: “Threat Hunting Isn’t Worth My Time”

The cybersecurity landscape is in a constant state of change and, as many organizations have learned, it’s no longer a matter of if you’ll face a cyberattack, but when. In today’s world, attackers intentionally look normal to evade automated defenses. With the rise of ransomware, fileless and...

Data Privacy Issues Trigger Soul Searching in Tech Industry

NEW YORK – For the tech industry, Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal has led to a wave of self-examination when it comes to the culture around data collection and utilization – and what the price is for bad data privacy policies. While regulatory efforts, fines and consumer public sentiment...

Beware of Hurricane Florence Relief Scams

If you're thinking of donating money to help victims of Hurricane Florence, please do your research on the charitable entity before giving: A slew of new domains apparently related to Hurricane Florence relief efforts are now accepting donations on behalf of victims without much accountability fo...

Our Extensive Survey on IoT Cybersecurity Has Remarkable Top Consequence

Trend Micro recently conducted a global survey of IT and security decision makers. When asked about the top consequence to IoT security, many would have expected it to be data loss. However, the top consequence named with 52% of respondents was “Loss of Customer Trust.” IoT has a physical compone...

Report: Intel Facing New Spectre-Like Security Flaws

Intel may be facing as many as eight new Spectre-level vulnerabilities in its chips, a new report alleges. The report comes months after the Spectre and Meltdown flaws first rocked the silicon industry in early 2018. German magazine c’t reported on Thursday that the new security flaws in Intel CP...

Working towards a more diverse future in security

Last year I embarked on an exercise to examine diversity in cybersecurity. As one full year has passed, I decided to revisit this topic and the ongoing challenges of recruiting AND retaining diverse talent in the cybersecurity field. This past year saw the MeToo movement in the spotlight, and whi...

The GDPR is Coming: We Shed Light on What’s Still Not Working

On May 25, the biggest shake-up to Europe’s data protection laws in almost a generation will finally take effect, after years of planning. For any US organization handling data on EU citizens, including service providers, it means you could face hefty fines of up to €20m $24.7m or 4% of global...

Election Security

I joined a letter supporting the Secure Elections Act S. 2261: The Secure Elections Act strikes a careful balance between state and federal action to secure American voting systems. The measure authorizes appropriation of grants to the states to take important and time-sensitive actions, includin...

Dell EMC Patches Critical Flaws in VMAX Enterprise Storage Systems

Dell EMC fixed two critical flaws in its management interfaces for its VMAX enterprise storage systems. One of the vulnerabilities could allow a remote attacker to use a hard-coded password to a default account to gain unauthorized access to systems. The company issued updates that address the tw...

Intel Says Firmware Fixes for Spectre and Meltdown Affecting Newer Chips

Intel’s efforts to issue fixes for the Spectre and Meltdown CPU vulnerabilities are still hitting some bumps in the road, a company executive said in a blog post. “We have now issued firmware updates for 90 percent of Intel CPUs introduced in the past five years, but we have more work to do,” sai...

Tracking changes in CERT bulletins and Nessus plugins using Vulners Time Machine

If you use Vulners.com vulnerability search engine, you probably know that it has a real "Time Machine". Each time Vulners sees some changes on a source page it creates a new version of security object. And you can see the full history of changes in a nice GUI: In most cases, the vendor just...

mozilla -- Speculative execution side-channel attack

Mozilla Foundation reports: Jann Horn of Google Project Zero Security reported that speculative execution performed by modern CPUs could leak information through a timing side-channel attack. Microsoft Vulnerability Research extended this attack to browser JavaScript engines and demonstrated that...

Pharmaceutical Giant Still Feeling NotPetya's Sting

NotPetya was massive shift in malware tactics as what was initially believed to be another global ransomware attack on par with WannaCry was instead a wiper in disguise. It claimed thousands of victims worldwide, including some of the highest profile manufacturers, critical infrastructure provide...

Erosion of ISP Privacy Rules Sparks New Anti-Snooping Efforts

Since Congress voted to prevent the implementation of new ISP privacy protections there has been a committed and sometimes loud call for new rules. The fear is, without adequate safeguards in place, ISPs will be free to build detailed customer profiles that include names, addresses and online...

How Bugs Lead to a Better Android

Google is used to taking a beating over Android vulnerabilities, but it says too often its hard work fixing vulnerabilities and keeping the platform safe goes unnoticed. “Over the seven years working on Android security vulnerabilities I’ve seen a lot of bugs and a lot of fear uncertainty and...

Twitter State-Sponsored Attack Notification

Twitter’s decision to notify users when their accounts are targeted in state-sponsored attacks earned its share of praise. But Twitter’s silence in terms of specifics about the attacks—whether by choice or gagged by a National Security Letter—has foisted some anxiety upon those who were notified....

Ghost glibc Vulnerability Affects Enterprise Applications

What drove IT admins crazy about the Bash vulnerability was that it was difficult to determine—and patch—everything that was making a Bash call. It was everywhere. Apparently, some of that angst applies to the Ghost vulnerability in the GNU C library, known as glibc. At first, experts believed th...