Preventing data loss and mitigating risk in today’s remote work environment

The shift to remote work over the past few months has increased the need for organizations to re-evaluate their security and risk management practices. With employees accessing corporate data at times on home computers or sharing and collaborating in new ways, organizations could be at greater ri...

Twitter Hackers May Have Bribed an Insider

Motherboard is reporting that this week's Twitter hack involved a bribed insider. Twitter has denied it. I have been taking press calls all day about this. And while I know everyone wants to speculate about the details of the hack, we just don't know -- and probably won't for a couple of weeks...

Twitter Hacked in Bitcoin Scam

It started with one weird tweet. Then another. Quickly, some of the most prominent accounts on Twitter were all sending out the same message; I am giving back to the community. All Bitcoin sent to the address below will be sent back double! If you send $1,000, I will send back $2,000. Only doing...

Enterprise Data Security: It’s Time to Flip the Established Approach

There’s an old saying when it comes to big undertakings: Don’t boil the ocean. Well, there’s hardly any bigger project in information security than trying to protect corporate data. But the reality is that too many organizations today are, in fact, “boiling the ocean” when it comes to their...

The Enemy Within: How Insider Threats Are Changing

Insider threats are ramping up – with new kinds of concerns in this category beginning to emerge. This is happening against a heady backdrop: Makeshift home offices, a cavalcade of new distractions and a tectonic shift to the cloud have recently collided to create an entirely new world for...

Critical Apache Guacamole Flaws Put Remote Desktops at Risk of Hacking

A new research has uncovered multiple critical reverse RDP vulnerabilities in Apache Guacamole , a popular remote desktop application used by system administrators to access and manage Windows and Linux machines remotely. The reported flaws could potentially let bad actors achieve full control ov...

6 Best Practices to Fight a New Breed of Insider Threats

The current global pandemic has disrupted how organizations work. Some businesses quickly adapt while other organizations are still figuring out the new landscape. Unfortunately, criminals are exploiting vulnerabilities during this challenging time. There has been an 238% increase in cyberattacks...

6 Best Practices to Fight a New Breed of Insider Threats

The current global pandemic has disrupted how organizations work. Some businesses quickly adapt while other organizations are still figuring out the new landscape. Unfortunately, criminals are exploiting vulnerabilities during this challenging time. There has been an 238% increase in cyberattacks...

Work From Home Opens New Remote Insider Threats

Employees working from home face a new world of workplace challenges. With childcare facilities mostly closed, many are juggling crying babies or barking dogs, all while tending to job responsibilities. Under those conditions mistakes happen, like sending an email – with critical internal company...

Former DIA Analyst Sentenced to Prison Over Data Leak

A former analyst for the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency DIA has been sentenced to more than two years in prison after sharing highly classified, national defense intelligence with two reporters. The sentencing comes after the 32-year-old analyst, Henry Kyle Frese, pleaded guilty in February to...

News Wrap: Malicious Chrome Extensions Removed, CIA 'Woefully Lax' Security Policies Bashed

For the week ended June 19, Threatpost editors Lindsey O’Donnell Welch, Tom Spring and Tara Seals break down the top cybersecurity stories. This week’s top news stories include: Google removing 106 Chrome browser extensions from its Chrome Web Store in response to a report that they were being us...

Adobe Patches 18 Critical Flaws in Out-Of-Band Update

Adobe patched 18 critical vulnerabilities Tuesday impacting key products Adobe After Effects, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, Premiere Rush and Audition. The out-of-band fixes address vulnerabilities allowing an attacker to execute arbitrary code, if bugs are exploited. In its security bulletin Adobe...

Theft of CIA's 'Vault 7' Secrets Tied to 'Woefully Lax" Security

A just-released report on the 2016 Central Intelligence Agency CIA data breach, which led to the Vault 7 document dump on WikiLeaks, blames “woefully lax” security by the nation’s top spy agency. The conclusions were part of an internal 2017 Department of Justice DoJ report on the CIA breach. On...

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...

Lock and Code S1Ep6: Recognizing facial recognition’s flaws with Chris Boyd

This week on Lock and Code, we discuss the top security headlines generated right here on Labs and around the Internet. In addition, we talk to Chris Boyd, lead malware intelligence analyst at Malwarebytes, about facial recognition technology—its early history, its proven failures at accuracy, an...

ManageEngine DataSecurity Plus Path Traversal / Code Execution Vulnerabilities

ManageEngine DataSecurity Plus versions prior to 6.0.1 and ADAudit Plus versions prior to 6.0.3 suffers from a path traversal vulnerability that can lead to remote code execution. ManageEngine DataSecurity Plus Path Traversal / Code Execution Vulnerabilities Identifiers...

ManageEngine DataSecurity Plus Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

ManageEngine DataSecurity Plus versions prior to 6.0.1 and ADAudit Plus versions prior to 6.0.3 suffer from an authentication bypass vulnerability. ManageEngine DataSecurity Plus Authentication Bypass Identifiers ------------------------------------------------- CVE-2020-11532 XL-20-002 CVSSv3...

ManageEngine DataSecurity Plus Authentication Bypass

XL-2020-002 - DataSecurity Plus Xnode Server - Authentication Bypass =============================================================================== Identifiers ------------------------------------------------- CVE-2020-11532 XL-20-002 CVSSv3 score ------------------------------------------------...

ManageEngine DataSecurity Plus Path Traversal / Code Execution

XL-2020-001 - DataSecurity Plus Xnode Server - Remote Code Execution via Path Traversal =============================================================================== Identifiers ------------------------------------------------- CVE-2020-11531 XL-20-001 CVSSv3 score...

Windows 10 Insider Preview Fast win32kbase HMMarkObjectDestroy Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability Regression

Summary A use after free vulnerability exists in Windows 10, Insider Preview Fast 10.0.19582.1001, when a Win32k component fails to properly handle objects in memory. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability can lead to arbitrary code execution in the kernel context and elevation of...