Microsoft shares 4 challenges of protecting sensitive data and how to overcome them

Breaches of sensitive data are extremely costly for organizations when you tally data loss, stock price impact, and mandated fines from violations of General Data Protection Regulation GDPR, California Consumer Privacy Act CCPA, or other regulations. They also can diminish the trust of those who...

US senators introduce the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA)

US Senators Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee have introduced the Kids Online Safety Act KOSA, legislation that aims to enhance childrens safety online. This follows the The Wall Street Journal WSJs reporting on the harm Instagram can inflict on teens, which was...

SaaS Security Guide: How to Protect Your SaaS Business

By Waqas SaaS companies access scads of customer data. If you fail with SaaS security, it will have a direct… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: SaaS Security Guide: How to Protect Your SaaS Business...

Researcher Spotlight: Dr. Nestori Syynimaa’s Constant Mission Protecting Identities

"When you find the things I find, they really matter. They affect everybody’s security.” Currently streaming: The Expanse and Lost in Space on Netflix Currently listening to: Amorphis, Architects, and Killswitch Engage Currently running: 130 kilometers or 80 miles a month Currently playing:...

VulnCheck KEV: CVE-2018-15811

DotNetNuke DNN contains an inadequate encryption strength vulnerability resulting from the use of a weak encryption algorithm to protect input parameters...

Security tips – How to protect your online trading account

By Owais Sultan cybercriminals are targeting stock markets. Their modus operandi includes selling penny stocks from their account and purchase them from a hacked account. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Security tips - How to protect your online trading account...

Responsive Tourism Website 3.1 Remote Code Execution

Exploit Title: Responsive Tourism Website 3.1 - Remote Code Execution RCE Unauthenticated Date: 22.06.2021 Exploit Author: Tagoletta Tağmaç Software Link: https://www.sourcecodester.com/php/14838/simple-responsive-tourism-website-using-php-free-source-code.html Version: V 3.1 Tested on: MacOS &...

Why Data Privacy Day matters

Our Lock and Code special episode on Data Privacy Day, featuring guests from Mozilla, DuckDuckGo, and Electronic Frontier Foundation can be listened to here. Today, January 28, is Data Privacy Day, the annual, multinational event in which governments, companies, and schools can inform the public...

Privilege escalation

Taurus-AN00B versions earlier than 10.1.0.156C00E155R7P2 have a privilege elevation vulnerability. Due to lack of privilege restrictions on some of the business functions of the device. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to access the protecting information, resulting in the elevation o...

National Insider Threat Awareness Month

September is National Insider Threat Awareness Month NIATM, which is a collaborative effort between the National Counterintelligence and Security Center NCSC, National Insider Threat Task Force NITTF, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense Intelligence and Security USDI&S, Department of Homelan...

CERT NZ Releases Advisory on Ransomware Campaign

The New Zealand Computer Emergency Response Team CERT NZ has released an advisory on a ransomware campaign leveraging remote access technologies. Malicious cyber actors are targeting organizations’ networks through remote access tools, such as Remote Desktop Protocol and virtual private networks,...

Wallarm team is growing!

Wallarm’s unique approach provides actionable insight that identifies and protects against real attacks and vulnerabilities. I’m excited to be part of the team that automates this for modern services and cloud-based applications. The post Wallarm team is growing! appeared first on Wallarm Blog...

U.S. Cyber Command Shares Seven New Malware Samples

U.S. Cyber Command has released seven malware samples to the malware aggregation tool and repository, VirusTotal. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA encourages users and administrators to review U.S. Cyber Command’s VirusTotal page to view the samples. CISA also recommends...

Description of the security update for SharePoint Enterprise Server 2013: October 8, 2019

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U.S. Cyber Command Shares 11 New Malware Samples

U.S. Cyber Command has released 11 malware samples to the malware aggregation tool and repository, VirusTotal. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA encourages users and administrators to review U.S. Cyber Command’s VirusTotal page to view the samples. CISA also recommends use...

3 strategies for building an information protection program

Five years ago, we started on a journey to update and simplify information protection at Microsoft. We had a manual data classification process that our users didn’t use effectively and didn’t work with our data storage or database technology. We had to find ways to re-classify data and build...

Description of the security update for Excel Viewer 2007: February 12, 2019

Description of the security update for Excel Viewer 2007: February 12, 2019 Summary This security update resolves an information disclosure vulnerability that exists when Microsoft Excel incorrectly discloses the contents of its memory. To learn more about the vulnerability, see Microsoft Common...

Description of the security update for Office 2010: October 9, 2018

Description of the security update for Office 2010: October 9, 2018 Summary This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office that could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Office file. To learn more about these vulnerabilities, see Microsoft Common...

Edward Snowden on Protecting Activists Against Surveillance

“Turnkey tyranny” has never been closer. For some communities, it feels like it’s already here...

NCCIC Webinar Series on Protecting Enterprise Network Infrastructure Devices

NCCIC will conduct a series of webinars on Protecting Enterprise Network Infrastructure Devices over the next two weeks. Each webinar will be held from 1-2:30 p.m. ET on the dates listed below: Monday, September 24 Thursday, September 27 Tuesday, October 2 Thursday, October 4 NCCIC encourages...