Playbook: Your First 100 Days as a vCISO - 5 Steps to Success

In an increasingly digital world, no organization is spared from cyber threats. Yet, not every organization has the luxury of hiring a full-time, in-house CISO. This gap in cybersecurity leadership is where you, as a vCISO, come in. You are the person who will establish, develop, and solidify the...

Chinese Hackers Launch Covert Espionage Attacks on 24 Cambodian Organizations

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered what they say is malicious cyber activity orchestrated by two prominent Chinese nation-state hacking groups targeting 24 Cambodian government organizations. "This activity is believed to be part of a long-term espionage campaign," Palo Alto Networks Unit ...

3 reasons why your endpoint security is not enough

Despite widespread deployment of endpoint protection solutions, cyberattacks continue to make headlines, affecting organizations of all sizes and sectors. Recent statistics reveal that 70% of companies were impacted by ransomware last year State of Malware Report 2023, Malwarebytes, and 83%...

CISA Releases its Open Source Software Security Roadmap

Today, CISA released an Open Source Software Security Roadmap to lay out—in alignment with the National Cybersecurity Strategy and the CISA Cybersecurity Strategic Plan—how we will partner with federal agencies, open source software OSS consumers, and the OSS community, to secure OSS...

SRE vs DevOps: Differences & Similarities

SRE vs DevOps: which approach should you use? Explore shared goals and distinctions between their functions and responsibilities...

CISA releases advice on how to safeguard K–12 organizations

To help K-12 schools and school districts in their struggle against cybercrime the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has released the report, Protecting Our Future: Partnering to Safeguard K-12 organizations from Cybersecurity Threats. A cybersecurity incident can significantly...

Database Malware Strikes Hundreds of Vulnerable WordPress Sites

By Deeba Ahmed The database injection against WordPress websites features two different malware embedded together to achieve two entirely different goals. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Database Malware Strikes Hundreds of Vulnerable WordPress Sites...

Rapid7 Announces Global Days Off to Support Employees in 2023

On January 3rd, it was a little bit quieter than usual here at Rapid7. That's because our offices were closed for our first of five Global Days Off for 2023. Global Days Off are designed to encourage teams around the world to unplug and rest, enabling them to bring their best selves back to work...

CVE-2022-31742

An attacker could have exploited a timing attack by sending a large number of allowCredential entries and detecting the difference between invalid key handles and cross-origin key handles. This could have led to cross-origin account linking in violation of WebAuthn goals. This vulnerability affec...

Identifying cyberthreats quickly with proactive security testing

The security community is continuously changing, growing, and learning from each other to better position the world against cyberthreats. In the latest post of our Community Voices blog series, Microsoft Security Senior Product Marketing Manager Brooke Lynn Weenig talks with Matthew Hickey,...

Why Cybersecurity Needs to be a Part of Your ESG

What is an ESG? Environmental, social, and corporate governance ESG documentation is a way to visualize and evaluate how an organization is working for the betterment of social goals and how that organization is responding to the cry for greener, more aware, and more responsible, sustainable...

Two Key Ways Development Teams Can Increase Their Security Maturity

Now more than ever, organizations need to enable their development teams to build and grow their security skills. Today organizations face a threat landscape where individuals, well-financed syndicates, and state actors are actively trying to exploit errors in software. Yet, according to recent...

DevOps vs SRE: Differences & Similarities

While DevOps and site reliability engineering teams often work together and have shared goals, there are important distinctions between the two. This article explores the differences between their functions and responsibilities...

MAL-2022-1920 Malicious code in clever-goals-js (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: ghsa-malware 99ef7811241a80a34b41104fa6b735b5fba548a07d98a391da3d4aac2e1203fc Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be...

Malicious code in clever-goals-js (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: ghsa-malware 99ef7811241a80a34b41104fa6b735b5fba548a07d98a391da3d4aac2e1203fc Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be...

Deep Dive: Protecting Against Container Threats in the Cloud

Containers are self-contained pods representing complete, portable application environments. They contain everything an application needs to run, including binaries, libraries, configuration files and dependencies Docker and Amazon Elastic, for instance, are two of the more well-known offerings...

Privacy-by-design… not by accident

The concept of privacy-by-design was actually devised almost 30 years ago by Ann Cavoukian, PhD, former Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner. If youre reading a blog about privacy, chances are good you have at least a passing familiarity with Dr. Cavoukians seminal contribution to the...

What you need to know about how cryptography impacts your security strategy

The security community is continuously changing, growing, and learning from each other to better position the world against cyber threats. In the latest post of our Voice of the Community blog series post, Microsoft Security Product Marketing Manager Natalia Godyla talks with Taurus SA Co-founder...

Build successful data security evaluation criteria with help from your peers

When you evaluate data security products it is imperative to have the end goal in sight. If you look forward 365 days from now, what is the best way to predict how your team will use the product so that you can communicate the value that it will provide? One approach is to examine operational...

Hyenae-Ng - An Advanced Cross-Platform Network Packet Generator And The Successor Of Hyenae

Hyenae NG Next Generation is a re-write of the original Hyenae tool which was originally published back in the year 2010. Besides switching from C to C++, using modern design concepts, Hyenae NG was just like the original Hyenae written with maximum portability in mind. Since the original Hyenae...