Afternoon Cyber Tea: Evaluating individual and organizational cyber risk in a pandemic

Cybersecurity professionals find themselves in high demand as organizations worldwide continue to grapple with how to secure millions of remote workers. James Turner is an industry analyst at CISO Lens and served as an adjudicator from 2017 to 2019 for the Australian government’s cyber war games:...

Afternoon Cyber Tea: Evaluating individual and organizational cyber risk in a pandemic

Cybersecurity professionals find themselves in high demand as organizations worldwide continue to grapple with how to secure millions of remote workers. James Turner is an industry analyst at CISO Lens and served as an adjudicator from 2017 to 2019 for the Australian government’s cyber war games:...

Compromise of U.S. Water Treatment Facility

Summary On February 5, 2021, unidentified cyber actors obtained unauthorized access to the supervisory control and data acquisition SCADA system at a U.S. drinking water treatment facility. The unidentified actors used the SCADA system’s software to increase the amount of sodium hydroxide, also...

Sophisticated cybersecurity threats demand collaborative, global response

Microsoft’s response to Solorigate Since December, the United States, its government, and other critical institutions including security firms have been addressing the world’s latest serious nation-state cyberattack, sometimes referred to as ‘Solorigate’ or ‘SUNBURST.’ As we shared earlier this i...

Microsoft SharePoint Tampering Vulnerability

Microsoft SharePoint is an enterprise business collaboration platform from Microsoft. The platform is used to consolidate business information and enable sharing of work, collaborating with others, organizing projects and workgroups, and searching for people and information. Microsoft SharePoint ...

Microsoft Windows XP Source Code Reportedly Leaked Online

Microsoft's long-lived operating system Windows XP—that still powers over 1% of all laptops and desktop computers worldwide—has had its source code leaked online, allegedly, along with Windows Server 2003. Yes, you heard that right. The source code for Microsoft's 19-year-old operating system was...

The informed voter’s guide to election cyberthreats

Singapore held its most recent general election on July 10 2020, and although they used the electoral system called first-past-the-post FPTP, a scheme favored by the US, UK, and most English-speaking countries, the road leading to Election Day was not without challenges and obstacles. While all...

CIS Releases 2019 Year in Review

The Center for Internet Security CIS has released its 2019 Year in Review. CIS is home to the Multi-State Information Sharing & Analysis Center MS-ISAC, a Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA partner focused on cyber threat prevention, protection, response, and recovery for U.S...

Ask Me Anything – Celebrating The Fifth Anniversary Of My Monthly Threat Webinar

In July 2015, I did my first threat webinar. I had planned to do it on a monthly basis, and never imagined I would still be doing it five years later, but here I am, still creating monthly webinars. I still do. I started the webinar series to help people understand the different threats targeting...

Can Governments Defeat Nation-State Attacks on Critical Infrastructures?

For physical conflicts, we expect our government to protect us from nation-state adversaries. It turns out, though, that industrial enterprises are much better positioned to defeat most nation-state attacks on power plants, pipelines, and other critical infrastructures than governments are. For...

PYSEC-2020-66

MISP MISP-maltego 1.4.4 incorrectly shares a MISP connection across users in a remote-transform use case...

[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: wordpress-5.4.1-1.fc31

Wordpress is an online publishing / weblog package that makes it very easy, almost trivial, to get information out to people on the web. Important information in /usr/share/doc/wordpress/README.fedora...

Anhui Yishang Digital Technology Co., Ltd. two law convergence information sharing platform has ultra vires loopholes

Ltd. is an e-commerce demonstration enterprise, based on the circulation industry to provide e-commerce platform construction, operation and promotion, network marketing, international market development services. The information sharing platform of Anhui Yi Shang Digital Technology Co., Ltd. has...

RSAC 2020: Ransomware a 'National Crisis,' CISA Says, Ramps ICS Focus

Industrial control systems ICS and critical infrastructure will be a main focus for the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA this year – especially as ransomware looms as a main threat to the sector going forward. That’s according to Christopher...

Broadening the Scope: A Comprehensive View of Pen Testing

Penetration tests have long been known as a critical security tool that exposes security weaknesses through simulated attacks on an organization's IT environments. These test results can help prioritize weaknesses, providing a road-map towards remediation. However, the results are also capable of...

ACSC Releases Fundamentals of Cross Domain Solutions

The Australian Cyber Security Centre ACSC has released a cybersecurity guide outlining the fundamentals of cross domain solution CDS technologies. This guidance provides cross domain security principles to enable organizations to share information securely across separated networks. The...

CVE-2019-15629

Trend Micro Password Manager versions 3.x, 5.0, and 5.1 for Android is affected by a FLAGMISUSE vulnerability that could be exploited to allow the application to share information to third-party applications on the device...

Design/Logic Flaw

Trend Micro Password Manager versions 3.x, 5.0, and 5.1 for Android is affected by a FLAGMISUSE vulnerability that could be exploited to allow the application to share information to third-party applications on the device...

Cyber-Risk Business Cases: Using Economic Impact to Justify TIG Investment

It sure is a difficult time to be a network defender. According to one industry report, as many as 85,000 malicious websites are launched daily, along with 8 million spam and phishing attacks; and, there are anywhere from 30-50 million malicious domains out there at any time. Scale seems to be...

CIS Releases Newsletter on Cleaning Up Data and Devices

The Center for Internet Security CIS July Newsletter reminds users to properly dispose of old or unused data and devices. Without careful management of online accounts, cloud storage, physical storage, and electronic devices, users could inadvertently disclose sensitive information that can be...