"Insider Threat" Detection Software

Notice this bit from an article on the arrest of Christopher Hasson: It was only after Hasson's arrest last Friday at his workplace that the chilling plans prosecutors assert he was crafting became apparent, detected by an internal Coast Guard program that watches for any "insider threat." The...

Microsoft Patches Zero Day Browser Bug Under Active Attack

It’s a busy Patch Tuesday for Microsoft with a total of 20 critical vulnerabilities addressed in this February’s monthly security bulletin. Four bugs, rated important, were previously publicly known. Worse, Microsoft said a zero-day bug tied to its Internet Explorer browser, also rated important,...

Forcing the Adversary to Pursue Insider Theft

Jack Crook pointed me toward a story by Christopher Burgess about intellectual property theft by "Hongjin Tan, a 35 year old Chinese national and U.S. legal permanent resident... who was arrested on December 20 and charged with theft of trade secrets. Tan is alleged to have stolen the trade secre...

What are Data Manipulation Attacks, and How to Mitigate Against Them

Conventional wisdom says that once an attacker is in the system, moving laterally from network to network, the damage is already done. The adversary has found a way in and more than likely identified the data they’re after. They simply need to exfiltrate it, the last step of the kill chain, to la...

U.S. Issues Multiple Charges For 2016 SEC Hack

Two Ukrainains have been indicted in hacking the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission SEC in order to steal and sell non-public, confidential information from publicly-traded companies. The two have been charged as part of a large-scale conspiracy to hack the SEC’s computer systems and profit ...

Partner Perspectives: Awake Security and Carbon Black Deliver Comprehensive Threat Detection and Response

Rudolph Araujo is the Vice President of Awake Security. Even relatively unsophisticated attackers today use tools, tactics and techniques that make them difficult to uncover. For instance, the use of non-malware tools, such as PowerShell, psexec and Python, places a burden on security teams to...

Two Hackers Charged with Hacking SEC System in Stock-Trading Scheme

The U.S. authorities have charged two Ukrainian hackers for hacking into the Securities and Exchange Commission's EDGAR filing system and stealing sensitive market-moving reports of companies before their public release. EDGAR, or Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval, is an online...

Two Hackers Charged with Hacking SEC System in Stock-Trading Scheme

The U.S. authorities have charged two Ukrainian hackers for hacking into the Securities and Exchange Commission's EDGAR filing system and stealing sensitive market-moving reports of companies before their public release. EDGAR, or Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval, is an online...

insiderjourneys.com.au XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-717365 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| insiderjourneys.com.au Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| hidden until disclosure Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:|...

ThreatList: 3 Out of 4 Employees Pose a Security Risk to Businesses

While much is always made of external hackers, insider threats remain a problem at more organizations. A full 75 percent of professionals pose a moderate or severe risk to their company’s data, according to a recent survey. MediaPRO’s third-annual State of Privacy and Security Awareness Report...

Workplace violence: the forgotten insider threat

Organizations are no stranger to insider threats. In fact, for those who have been around long before the Internet, workplace violence, alongside spying is a problem many businesses have seen before and sought to address. However, the adoption and use of the Internet completely changed the way...

Ex-NSA Developer Gets 5.5 Years in Prison for Taking Top Secret Documents Home

A former NSA employee has been sentenced to five and a half years in prison for illegally taking a copy of highly classified documents and hacking tools to his home computer between 2010 and 2015, which were later stolen by Russian hackers. Nghia Hoang Pho, 68, of Ellicott City, Maryland—who work...

Insiders Continue to be Data Theft’s Best Friend

Some of the most damaging attacks to hit organizations over the last several years weren’t caused by outside threat actors. They originated from within an organization’s corporate network. They were inside jobs. It’s not that outside attackers don’t pose a threat. Between adversaries looking to...

Sound, Fury, And Nothing One Year After Equifax

One year ago today, Equifax suffered what remains one of the largest and most impactful data breaches in U.S. history. Last September, it was revealed that the personal information of 145 million Americans, almost 700,000 UK citizens, and 19,000 Canadians was stolen by cybercriminals. This...

ThreatList: Security Pros Confident They Could Compromise Their Own Orgs

Cyber-threats that come from within an organization – carried out by employees, former employees, contractors or business associates – represent a very real and growing concern for organizations. Risky behavior can be intentional, a la Edward Snowden, or inadvertent, as is the case with almost al...

Report: Nearly Half of Security Professionals Think They Could Execute a Successful Insider Attack on Their Organization

As potential threats and entry points into organizations’ databases keep growing, so does the amount of money folks are throwing at detecting and actioning insider threats. In fact, the ballooning amount of money being spent on cybersecurity overall clearly highlights the seriousness with which...

A week in security (August 20 – August 26)

Last week on Labs, we took a look at insider threats, doubled back on the privacy of search browser extensions, profiled green card scams, revisited Defcon badgelife, and talked about what happens to a user's accounts when they die. Other cybersecurity news There was an archiving error in Twitch...

The enemy is us: a look at insider threats

They can go undetected for years. They do their questionable deeds in the background. And, at times, one wonders if they're doing more harm than good. Although this sounds like we're describing some sophisticated PUP you haven’t heard of, we're not. These are the known attributes of insider...

AT&T Faces $224M Legal Challenge Over SIM-Jacking Rings

Cryptocurrency investor and Dogecoin founder Michael Terpin has filed a $223.8 million lawsuit against AT&T, alleging the mobile phone giant turned a blind eye to SIM fraud. Terpin alleges that more than 3 million cryptocurrency tokens worth $24 million were lifted from his digital wallet at an...

Microsoft Edge Chakra JIT - InitializeNumberFormat and InitializeDateTimeFormat Type Confusion

Microsoft Edge Chakra JIT - InitializeNumberFormat and InitializeDateTimeFormat Type Confusion / The InitializeNumberFormat function in Intl.js is used to initialize an Intl.NumberFormat object, and InitializeDateTimeFormat is used for an Intl.DateTimeFormat object. There are two versions of each...