Women in Security: Celebrating Women’s History Month

In celebration of Women’s History Month, we are honoring all of the women at VMware who inspire, lead, innovate and set the stage for the next generation to come. In a six-part series, we will highlight some of the outstanding women in security that are playing a significant role in keeping the...

North Korean hackers charged with $1.3 billion of cyberheists

The US Department of Justice recently unsealed indictments detailing North Koreas involvement in several global cyberattack campaigns against institutions in the financial and entertainment sectors, and money laundering schemes in certain US states. The first unsealed indictment is for hacking...

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:...

Smarty Media New Media Smarty Security Breach

Smarty Media New Media Smarty is a software for demand management practices from Smarty Media, a German company This product is provided to anesthesiologists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, neurologists and physicians who specialize in demand management practices. A security vulnerability exist...

ZINC attacks against security researchers

In recent months, Microsoft has detected cyberattacks targeting security researchers by an actor we track as ZINC. The campaign originally came to our attention after Microsoft Defender for Endpoint detected an attack in progress. Observed targeting includes pen testers, private offensive securit...

Fleeing WhatsApp for Privacy? Don't Turn to Telegram

Because the chat app doesn't encrypt conversations by default—or at all for group chats—security professionals often warn against it...

Go365 - An Office365 User Attack Tool

Go365 is a tool designed to perform user enumeration and password guessing attacks on organizations that use Office365 now/soon Microsoft365. Go365 uses a unique SOAP API endpoint on login.microsoftonline.com that most other tools do not use. When queried with an email address and password, the...

Record Levels of Software Bugs Plague Short-Staffed IT Teams in 2020

2020 is shaping up to be a banner year for software vulnerabilities, leaving security professionals drowning in a veritable sea of patching, reporting and looming attacks, many of which they can’t even see. A trio of recent reports tracking software vulnerabilities over the past year underscore t...

Enum4Linux-Ng - A Next Generation Version Of Enum4Linux (A Windows/Samba Enumeration Tool) With Additional Features Like JSON/YAML Export

enum4linux-ng.py is a rewrite of Mark Lowe's former Portcullis Labs now Cisco CX Security Labs enum4linux.pl, a tool for enumerating information from Windows and Samba systems, aimed for security professionals and CTF players. The tool is mainly a wrapper around the Samba tools nmblookup, net,...

Reverse Engineering Tools: Evaluating the True Cost

When sourcing software for business needs, what criteria should you follow? Price typically tops the list. And sure, free software, like the Linux OS, delivers cost savings, stability, flexibility and ongoing development. No argument there. But when it comes to decompilers, which are used for...

2021 Healthcare Cybersecurity Priorities: Experts Weigh In

Healthcare cybersecurity is in triage mode. As systems are stretched to the limits by COVID-19 and technology becomes an essential part of everyday patient interactions, hospital and healthcare IT departments have been left to figure out how to make it all work together, safely and securely. Most...

Using Azure Blueprints to Control Azure Compliance

As Peter Parker says, with great power comes great responsibility. And so it goes with public cloud: With cloud scale and agility come cloud-scale problems and compliance nightmares. Every day, IT professionals balance the need to act quickly--often leveraging cloud speed of execution to implemen...

KB957488 - MS09-062: Vulnerabilities in GDI+ could allow remote code execution

Resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows GDI+ that could allow remote code execution if a user viewed a specially crafted image file using affected software or browsed a Web site that contains specially crafted content.Support for Windows Vista Service Pack 1 SP1 ends on July 12, 2011. To...

CISA Releases FY2019 Risk Vulnerability Assessment Infographic

The Cybersecurity and Information Security Agency CISA has released an infographic mapping analysis of 44 of its Risk and Vulnerability Assessments RVAs conducted in Fiscal Year 2019 to the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge ATT&CK Framework. The infographic identifies...

CISA Releases Telework Essentials Toolkit

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has released the Telework Essentials Toolkit, a comprehensive resource of telework best practices. The Toolkit provides three personalized modules for executive leaders, IT professionals, and teleworkers. Each module outlines distinctive...

Better Secure and Manage Endpoints in a Remote Work World

The global pandemic has quickly changed how and where we work. Remote work is now the ‘new normal.’ Amid the massive transition, a June survey by S&P Global found: More than two-thirds of companies may be working from home forever Offices that do remain will probably shrink: 47% of respondents sa...

Microsoft Overhauls ‘Patch Tuesday’ Security Update Guide

Microsoft has updated its Security Update Guide, which is used by tens of millions of cybersecurity professionals the second Tuesday of every month, also known as Patch Tuesday. The update, according to Microsoft, is meant to deliver a more intuitive user experience. For its latest update,...

Akamai, CISA, and CIS Join Forces to Improve SLTT Cyber Defenses

Cybercriminals continue to target U.S. state, local, tribal, and territorial SLTT government organizations. In 2019, there were more than 100 ransomware attacks -- including an attack on Baltimore's IT systems that locked out thousands of computers and disrupted nearly every city service. This...

Flaw in Safari browser’s API implementation lets user files to be stolen

By Sudais Asif Being one of the major web browsers, Safari browser gets its fair share of scrutiny from cybersecurity professionals. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Flaw in Safari browsers API implementation lets user files to be stolen...

Cybersecurity Skills Gap Worsens, Fueled by Lack of Career Development

Much has been made of the cybersecurity skills shortage: It has long been an issue that many companies can’t effectively source the in-house talent they need, even as threats accelerate in both volume and sophistication. A recent survey however shows that the situation doesn’t appear to be...