Unveiling the Hidden Power of the CMDB in Cybersecurity

In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, where attacks grow increasingly sophisticated, organizations must leverage every tool at their disposal to stay one step ahead. While CISOs and SecOps teams often focus on disciplines such as vulnerability detection, attack surface management, and...

Leicester City Council’s IT System and Phones Down Amid Cyber Attack

By Waqas Another day, another cyber attack on a local council in England! This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Leicester City Councils IT System and Phones Down Amid Cyber Attack...

CVE-2023-39249

Dell SupportAssist for Business PCs version 3.4.0 contains a local Authentication Bypass vulnerability that allows locally authenticated non-admin users to gain temporary privilege within the SupportAssist User Interface on their respective PC. The Run as Admin temporary privilege feature enables...

4 Questions for CISOs to Reduce Threat Exposure Risk

In an ongoing effort to help security organizations gain greater visibility into threat exposure risk, we have determined four key questions every CISO should be considering based on our understanding of the recommendations of a new report from Gartner®. The report, 2024 Strategic Roadmap for...

Europol and Bitdefender Release Free Decryptor for LockerGoga Ransomware

A decryptor for the LockerGoga ransomware has been made available by Romanian cybersecurity firm Bitdefender in collaboration with Europol, the No More Ransom project, and Zurich law enforcement authorities. Identified in January 2019, LockerGoga drew headlines for its attacks against the Norwegi...

SYS.2.3.A19

Festplatten oder die darauf abgespeicherten Dateien SOLLTEN verschluesselt werden. Die dazugehoerigen Schluessel SOLLTEN NICHT auf dem IT-System gespeichert werden. Es SOLLTEN AEAD-Verfahren Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data bei der Festplatten- und Dateiverschluesselung eingesetzt...

Ransomware Attacks Leave U.S. Hospitals Turning Away Patients

A rash of ransomware attacks this week targeted hospitals in the U.S. and Australia. The cyberattacks froze the computer systems of several medical facilities, to the point where they needed to turn away new patients and even cancel surgery appointments. A ransomware attack, reported on Tuesday,...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of May 29, 2017

“Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.” It’s not exactly clear how Murphy’s Law originated, but it seems to always make an appearance at the one time you can’t afford for anything to go wrong. Your laptop starts to malfunction right as you need to finish a project this happened to yours truly...

Indian Officials Get Training from Hackers who cracked CERN's IT system

Two Argentina-based cyber security experts - Chris Russo and Fernando Viacanel, who claimed to have cracked the security code of IT systems involved in the discovery of 'God Particle', today conducted training sessions for Indian government officials. Both the hackers are partners of IT security...

Anonymous releases 25,000 records of the Austrian police

Anonymous releases 25,000 records of the Austrian police Anonymous Austria post via the official Twitter account about 25,000 records Austrian police officers. Observers suspect that the data from the Austrian section of the "International Police Association" could come. Meanwhile, the far-right...

Audit Shows Flaws in Coast Guard System

Flaws in the configuration and security of the U.S. Coast Guard IT system caused a material weakness in the Department of Homeland Security financial system, according to a recent audit. Read the full article. Dark Reading...