Foreign Meddling Flooded the 2020 Election—but Not Hackers

A new ODNI report shows how extensive Russian and Iranian influence operations were, but it doesn’t mention a single hack-and-leak incident...

Linux: backends treating grant mapping errors as bugs

ISSUE DESCRIPTION Block, net, and SCSI backends consider certain errors a plain bug, deliberately causing a kernel crash. For errors potentially being at least under the influence of guests, like out of memory conditions, it isn't correct to assume so. Memory allocations potentially causing such...

Heightened Awareness for Iranian Cyber Activity

Iranian cyber threat actors have been continuously improving their offensive cyber capabilities. They continue to engage in more conventional offensive cyber activities ranging from website defacement, distributed denial of service DDoS attacks, and theft of personally identifiable information PI...

Election Cyber Threats in the Asia-Pacific Region

In democratic societies, elections are the mechanism for choosing heads of state and policymakers. There are strong incentives for adversary nations to understand the intentions and preferences of the people and parties that will shape a country's future path and to reduce uncertainty about likel...

Trump Fires Security Chief Christopher Krebs

President Trump on Tuesday fired his top election security official Christopher Krebs no relation. The dismissal came via Twitter two weeks to the day after Trump lost an election he baselessly claims was stolen by widespread voting fraud. Chris Krebs. Image: CISA. Krebs, 43, is a former Microsof...

Password choice

Introduction We’ve been advocates of regular password auditing for years. Over that time, we’ve noticed that password choice is not only very personal, but hugely influenced by current events, trends, and even what’s sat on your desk. Its given us a unique opportunity to see these common influenc...

Code injection

In the client in Overwolf 0.149.2.30, a channel can be accessed or influenced by an actor that is not an endpoint...

Hackers exploit VPN, Windows flaws to influence US elections

By Sudais Asif According to CISA, these Windows flaws are centered around Fortinet FortiOS Secure Socket Layer SSL VPN and MobileIron platform. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers exploit VPN, Windows flaws to influence US elections...

Privilege Escalation

Qt is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation. Files placed by attacker can influence the working directory and lead to malicious code execution...

U.S. Voter Databases Offered for Free on Dark Web, Report

UPDATE Personal information for several million American voters has turned up on a Russian underground cybercrime forum, according to reports – and users are purportedly looking to monetize it using a recently launched State Department program meant to prevent election-meddling. The personal...

Shoring Up the 2020 Election: Secure Vote Tallies Aren't the Problem

With the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election coming up in just two months, cybersecurity concerns are taking center stage for average citizens and politicians. That said, the likelihood of election results being impacted by an attack are slim, security researchers say. The focus should be on other...

How Cyber Security Is Influencing The Mobile Web Design Industry

By Owais Sultan Is there a way that stringent cyber security gets integrated into mobile web design? This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: How Cyber Security Is Influencing The Mobile Web Design Industry...

Google Updates Ad Policies to Counter Influence Campaigns, Extortion

Google is making two changes in its advertising policy as the U.S. moves into the fall election season ahead of the presidential contest in November, in an attempt to thwart disinformation campaigns. For one, Google is updating its Google Ads Misrepresentation Policy to prevent coordinated activi...

Anti-NATO Disinformation Campaign Leveraged CMS Compromises

Researchers have uncovered a widespread influence campaign that aims to discredit the Northern Atlantic Treaty Organization NATO, an intergovernmental military alliance between 30 North American and European countries. According to new research from FireEye, the campaign has been ongoing since at...

'Ghostwriter' Influence Campaign: Unknown Actors Leverage Website Compromises and Fabricated Content to Push Narratives Aligned With Russian Security Interests

Mandiant Threat Intelligence has tied together several information operations that we assess with moderate confidence comprise part of a broader influence campaign—ongoing since at least March 2017—aligned with Russian security interests. The operations have primarily targeted audiences in...

The psychology of social engineering—the “soft” side of cybercrime

Forty-eight percent of people will exchange their password for a piece of chocolate,1 91 percent of cyberattacks begin with a simple phish,2 and two out of three people have experienced a tech support scam in the past 12 months.3 What do all of these have in common? They make use of social...

Hackers deface Roblox accounts with pro-Trump messages

By Sudais Asif Roblox has over 100 million registered users but only a handful of accounts were compromised. As the US presidential election is nearby, voters across the 50 state empire are betting on their candidates in light of the proposals they offer. However, some are going far enough to tak...

Business Secure: How AI is Sneaking into our Restaurants

Prior to pandemic days, the restaurant industry talked of computers that might end up taking over their daily responsibilities. They’d joke about how a kiosk can communicate orders to the kitchen, much like they can. Well, now that we live in a global world that will be reluctant to dine with...

‘Hack-For-Hire’ Firms Spoof WHO To Target Google Credentials

“Hack-for-hire” organizations are the latest group of cybercriminals to take advantage of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, using COVID-19 as a lure in phishing emails bent on stealing victims’ Google credentials. Researchers with Google’s Threat Analysis Group TAG warned that they’ve spotted a...

Welcoming and retaining diversity in cybersecurity

I doubt I’d be in the role I am now if leaders at one of my first jobs hadn’t taken an interest in my career. Although I taught myself to code when I was young, I graduated from college with a degree in English Literature and began my post-college career in editorial. I worked my way up to...