Five Critical Password Security Rules Your Employees Are Ignoring

According to Keeper Security's Workplace Password Malpractice Report, many remote workers aren't following best practices for password security. Password security was a problem even before the advent of widespread remote work. So, what happened post-pandemic? Keeper Security's Workplace Password...

Siemens RWG Universal Controllers

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 6.5 ATTENTION : Low attack complexity Vendor : Siemens Equipment : RWG Universal Controllers Vulnerability : Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a...

Securing the Supply Chain: Lessons Learned from the Codecov Compromise

Supply chain attacks are all the rage these days. While they’re not a new part of the threat landscape, they are growing in popularity among more sophisticated threat actors, and they can create significant system-wide disruption, expense, and loss of confidence across multiple organizations,...

CISA-FBI Guidance for MSPs and their Customers Affected by the Kaseya VSA Supply-Chain Ransomware Attack

CISA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI continue to respond to the recent supply-chain ransomware attack leveraging a vulnerability in Kaseya VSA software against multiple managed service providers MSPs and their customers. CISA and FBI strongly urge affected MSPs and their customers to...

The Countdown Has Started -- The Move Toward Zero Trust and MFA

In early May 2021, the President of the United States issued an executive order on cybersecurity, and though it will take some time for executive branch agencies to develop formal rules, the order itself includes a lot of what I consider to be best practice in cybersecurity, including the use of...

Encoding data for POST requests

Right now, when you go to copilot.github.com you're greeted with this example: async function isPositivetext const response = await fetchhttp://text-processing.com/api/sentiment/, method: 'POST', body: text=$text, headers: 'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded', , ; const json = awai...

CISA Begins Cataloging Bad Practices that Increase Cyber Risk

In a blog post by Executive Assistant Director EAD Eric Goldstein, CISA announced the creation of a catalog to document bad cybersecurity practices that are exceptionally risky for any organization and especially dangerous for those supporting designated Critical Infrastructure or National Critic...

Best Practices for Social Media Security

Social media is a double-edged sword, and as we celebrate SocialMediaDay, let’s remember to use best security practices to keep us safe from malicious actors who abuse the platforms...

Banning Surveillance-Based Advertising

The Norwegian Consumer Council just published a fantastic new report: "Time to Ban Surveillance-Based Advertising." From the Introduction: The challenges caused and entrenched by surveillance-based advertising include, but are not limited to: privacy and data protection infringements opaque...

CODESYS Control V2 Linux SysFile library

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 5.3 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low attack complexity Vendor: CODESYS, GmbH Equipment: CODESYS V2 Runtime Toolkit Vulnerability: OS Command Injection 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow the control programmer to call...

Advantech WebAccess/SCADA (Update A)

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 7.3 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low attack complexity Vendor: Advantech Equipment: WebAccess/SCADA Vulnerabilities: Open Redirect, Relative Path Traversal 2. UPDATE INFORMATION This updated advisory is a follow-up to the original advisory titled ICSA-21-168-03...

Exclusive Ransomware Poll: 80% of Victims Don’t Pay Up

Ransomware is on the rise, but what toll does it take on the real world? Threatpost set out to answer that question in an exclusive poll aimed at taking the pulse of organizations wrestling with attacks, including looking at mitigations and the defenses organizations have in place. When viewed...

VPNs and Trust

TorrentFreak surveyed nineteen VPN providers, asking them questions about their privacy practices: what data they keep, how they respond to court order, what country they are incorporated in, and so on. Most interesting to me is the home countries of these companies. Express VPN is incorporated i...

Lessons Learned from 100 Data Breaches: Part 3, Securing Public Cloud Services

In the first two parts of this series, we gained insight into what specific types of data get stolen and what the root causes of breaches are, based on data breach information that Imperva’s Security Labs’ gathered, studied, and analyzed over the last ten years. You can get the full report, Lesso...

TLB Poisoning Attacks on AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV)

Bulletin ID: AMD-SB-1023 Potential Impact: Loss of Integrity, Confidentiality and Availability Summary A malicious hypervisor HV along with an unprivileged process controlled by an attacker and executing in a guest VM, may maliciously control the process of flushing the Translation Lookaside Buff...

Schneider Electric PowerLogic PM55xx and PowerLogic PM8ECC

GENERAL SECURITY RECOMMENDATIONS We strongly recommend the following industry cybersecurity best practices. https://www.se.com/us/en/download/document/7EN52-0390/ Locate control and safety system networks and remote devices behind firewalls and isolate them from the business network. Install...

Thales Sentinel LDK Run-Time Environment

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 9.6 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low attack complexity Vendor: Thales Equipment: Thales Sentinel LDK Run-Time Environment RTE Vulnerability: Incomplete Cleanup 2. RISK EVALUATION Products that have uninstalled software using the Sentinel LDK Run-Time Environment,...

Johnson Controls Metasys

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 8.8 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low attack complexity Vendor: Johnson Controls Equipment: Metasys Servers, Engines, and Tools Vulnerability: Improper Privilege Management 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could give an authenticated...

‘Battle for the Galaxy’ Mobile Game Leaks 6M Gamer Profiles

An Elasticsearch server holding personal data of 6 million players of the popular mobile game Battle for the Galaxy was discovered insecure and containing over 1 terabyte of unencrypted data, meaning anyone with a link could access data stored on the repository. Ethical hackers WizCase found the...

GENIVI Alliance DLT

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 9.8 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low attack complexity Vendor: GENIVI Alliance Equipment: DLT-Daemon Vulnerability: Heap-based Buffer Overflow 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to remote code execution or crash the...