4 Steps the Financial Industry Can Take to Cope With Their Growing Attack Surface

The financial services industry has always been at the forefront of technology adoption, but the 2020 pandemic accelerated the widespread use of mobile banking apps, chat-based customer service, and other digital tools. Adobe's 2022 FIS Trends Report, for instance, found that more than half of th...

North Korean state-sponsored actors employ Maui Ransomware to target the health care industry

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[SECURITY] Fedora 35 Update: containerd-1.6.6-4.fc35

Containerd is an industry-standard container runtime with an emphasis on simplicity, robustness and portability. It is available as a daemon for Linux and Windows, which can manage the complete container lifecycle of its host system: image transfer and storage, container execution and supervision...

CVE-2022-35904

An issue was discovered in Bentley MicroStation before 10.17.0.x and Bentley View before 10.17.0.x. Using an affected version of MicroStation or MicroStation-based application to open an IFC file containing crafted data can force an out-of-bounds read. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities within...

How War Impacts Cyber Insurance

Author Chris Hallenbeck is CISO for the Americas at Tanium In the words of former FBI director, Robert Mueller, “There are only two types of companies: those that have been hacked and those that will be.” This unavoidable truth, coupled with growing mainstream awareness and the ever-increasing...

Get to Know Fred House

Meet Fred House Senior Director, Product Detection and Research By Michael Alicea · July 12, 2022 At Trellix, we celebrate and champion our people. For a long time now, I’ve been looking forward to connecting with Fred House, a Senior Director at Trellix Threat Labs and a consummate and “driven”...

How Shady Code Commits Compromise the Security of the Open-Source Ecosystem

In this blog entry, we discuss how open-source code has been subjected to protest-driven code modifications by its maintainers or backers. We also provide an analysis of what these incidents could mean for the IT industry and the open source community...

Fundamental Security Concepts and Best Practices Every Game Developer Should Know

Gaming is now the world’s favorite form of entertainment, with Newzoo reporting that by 2023 there will be more than three billion gamers across the planet. With the growth of multiplayer games, however, the number of cheaters has also increased. A study by The New York Times found that almost 50...

Security Bulletin: IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition Quarterly CPU - April 2022 - Includes Oracle April 2022 CPU

Summary There are multiple vulnerabilities in IBM® SDK Java™ Technology Edition, Versions 7, and 8 that are used by Maximo Asset Management, Maximo Industry Solutions including Maximo for Nuclear Power, Maximo for Transportation, Maximo for Life Sciences, Maximo for Oil and Gas and Maximo for...

[SECURITY] Fedora 36 Update: containerd-1.6.6-4.fc36

Containerd is an industry-standard container runtime with an emphasis on simplicity, robustness and portability. It is available as a daemon for Linux and Windows, which can manage the complete container lifecycle of its host system: image transfer and storage, container execution and supervision...

Ransomware review: June 2022

Malwarebytes Threat Intelligence builds a monthly picture of ransomware activity by monitoring the information published by ransomware gangs on their Dark Web leak sites. This information represents victims who were successfully attacked but opted not to pay a ransom. In June, LockBit was the mos...

Patchable and Preventable Security Issues Lead Causes of Q1 Attacks

Eighty-two percent of attacks on organizations in Q1 2022 were caused by the external exposure of a known vulnerabilities in the victim’s external-facing perimeter or attack surface. Those unpatched bugs overshadowed breach-related financial losses tied to human error, which accounted for 18...

ATO Attacks Targeting Financial Services Increased 58 Percent in May. Who Else Needs to Worry?

Account takeover ATO is a form of identity theft that cyber criminals use to get unauthorized access to the accounts of legitimate users through some kind of brute force method such as Credential Stuffing. In 2022, account takeover attacks are on the rise. In June for example, Imperva’s Threat...

industry-icon.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-2695993

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

A Bootiful Podcast: JVM and .NET legend Ted Neward on... just about everything

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I @starbuxman talk to my old friend, world-famous polyglot and code curmudgeon, software philosopher, industry veteran, and legend of ecosystems aplenty, Ted Neward @tedneward...

‘Unpacking’ technical attribution and challenges for ensuring stability in cyberspace

Introduction When reports of a cyberattack appear in the headlines, questions abound regarding who launched it and why. Even if an attacker has what are to it perfectly rational reasons for conducting such an attack, these reasons are often known only to them. The rest of the world, including the...

State-Sponsored Phishing Attack Targeted Israeli Military Officials

An advanced persistent threat group, with ties to Iran, is believed behind a phishing campaign targeting high-profile government and military Israeli personnel, according to a report by Check Point Software. Targets of the campaign included a senior leadership in the Israeli defense industry, the...

[SECURITY] Fedora 36 Update: containerd-1.6.6-1.fc36

Containerd is an industry-standard container runtime with an emphasis on simplicity, robustness and portability. It is available as a daemon for Linux and Windows, which can manage the complete container lifecycle of its host system: image transfer and storage, container execution and supervision...

Security Bulletin: IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition Quarterly CPU - January 2022 - Includes Oracle January 2022 CPU

Summary There are multiple vulnerabilities in IBM® SDK Java™ Technology Edition, Versions 7, and 8 that are used by Maximo Asset Management, Maximo Industry Solutions including Maximo for Nuclear Power, Maximo for Transportation, Maximo for Life Sciences, Maximo for Oil and Gas and Maximo for...

Network Providers and Devices targeted by Chinese state-sponsored actors

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Summary The National Security Agency NSA, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI have released a joint advisory to make organizations in the...