Windows Defender Attack Surface Reduction Security Feature Bypass

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SUSE-SU-2023:3563-1 Security update for icu73_2

This update for icu732 fixes the following issues: - Update to release 73.2 CLDR extends the support for “short” Chinese sort orders to cover some additional, required characters for Level 2. This is carried over into ICU collation. ICU has a modified character conversion table, mapping some...

Survey Provides Takeaways for Security Pros to Operationalize their Remediation Life Cycle

Ask any security professional and they'll tell you that remediating risks from various siloed security scanning tools requires a tedious and labor-intensive series of steps focused on deduplication, prioritization, and routing of issues to an appropriate "fixer" somewhere in the organization. Thi...

CISA’s VDP Platform 2022 Annual Report Showcases Success

Today, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA released its inaugural Vulnerability Disclosure Policy VDP Platform 2022 Annual Report, highlighting the service’s progress supporting vulnerability awareness and remediation across the Federal Civilian Executive Branch FCEB. This...

Three Security Vendor Consolidation Myths Debunked

When it comes to security vendor consolidation, Gartner found that 57% of organizations are working with fewer than ten security vendors, utilizing consolidation to cut costs and improve their overall security posture. But what about the other 43%? While security vendor consolidation has many...

Part III: Implementing Effective Cyber Security Metrics that Reduce Risk Realistically

We outlined some critical cybersecurity metrics in Part I of this three-part blog series. In the final blog post, we will delve into three crucial aspects outlined in Josh’s article: tactical metrics for operational teams, strategic metrics for leadership, and the metrics addressing the...

Chaos - Origin IP Scanning Utility Developed With ChatGPT

chaos is an 'origin' IP scanner developed by RST in collaboration with ChatGPT. It is a niche utility with an intended audience of mostly penetration testers and bug hunters. An origin-IP is a term-of-art expression describing the final public IP destination for websites that are publicly served...

New Microsoft Security innovations expand multicloud visibility and enhance multiplatform protection

With more than 90 percent of organizations adopting a multicloud strategy1 and cloud-based cyberattacks growing 48 percent year over year,2 securing multicloud and hybrid environments is more important than ever. To successfully protect multicloud infrastructure—where customers are utilizing two ...

How to Automatically Delete Passcode Texts on Android and iOS

Here’s one simple way to reduce your security risk while logging in...

RFP Template for Browser Security

Increasing cyber threats and attacks have made protecting organizational data a paramount concern for businesses of all sizes. A group of experts have recognized the pressing need for comprehensive browser security solutions and collaborated to develop "The Definitive Browser Security RFP...

Force Expiration Of Ethereum Name Service (ENS)

@ensdomains/ens-contracts is vulnerable to Force Expiration Of Ethereum Name Service ENS. The vulnerability exists due to the integer overflow in the renew function of BaseRegistrarImplementation.sol, which allows an attacker to reduce the expiration time of existing domains...

Part II: Implementing Effective Cyber Security Metrics that Reduce Risk Realistically

In Part I of this three-part blog series, we discussed building a cyber risk metrics program from the ground up. We also discovered how to implement effective strategies for holistically articulating your cyber risk posture across your organization. In our second installment, we’ll delve deeper...

Part I: Implementing Effective Cyber Security Metrics That Reduce Risk Realistically

As a CISO or business leader, some burning questions that often come to your mind are: How vulnerable is our cybersecurity posture? Are we better protected than we were three months or a year ago? Have our investments improved the cybersecurity posture and yielded any tangible benefits? Are my...

Zero-day deploys remote code execution vulnerability via Word documents

An unpatched zero-day vulnerability is currently being abused in the wild, targeting those with an interest in Ukraine. Microsoft reports that CVE-2023-36884 is tied to reports of: …a series of remote code execution vulnerabilities impacting Windows and Office products. Microsoft is aware of...

c-ares: AutoTools does not set CARES_RANDOM_FILE during cross compilation

A flaw was found in c-ares. This issue occurs when cross-compiling c-ares and using the autotools build system, CARESRANDOMFILE will not be set, as seen when cross-compiling aarch64 android. As a result, it will downgrade to rand, which could allow an attacker to utilize the lack of entropy by no...

c-ares: AutoTools does not set CARES_RANDOM_FILE during cross compilation

A flaw was found in c-ares. This issue occurs when cross-compiling c-ares and using the autotools build system, CARESRANDOMFILE will not be set, as seen when cross-compiling aarch64 android. As a result, it will downgrade to rand, which could allow an attacker to utilize the lack of entropy by no...

Another Critical Unauthenticated SQLi Flaw Discovered in MOVEit Transfer Software

Progress Software has announced the discovery and patching of a critical SQL injection vulnerability in MOVEit Transfer, popular software used for secure file transfer. In addition, Progress Software has patched two other high-severity vulnerabilities. The identified SQL injection vulnerability,...

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is ranked number one in market share in the IDC Worldwide Corporate Endpoint Security Market Shares report, 2022

Microsoft security researchers tracked a 130.4 percent increase in organizations that have encountered ransomware over the last year. Endpoints are an important attack vector and ensuring that organizations have modern endpoint security as part of a broader extended detection and response strateg...

Maximizing Performance with Wallarm Filtering Nodes in Amazon’s Global Infrastructure

Introduction In todays digital landscape, ensuring the security and performance of web applications is paramount. To achieve optimal protection against cyber threats, organizations deploy web application and API protection WAAPs like Wallarm. However, to truly leverage the benefits of Wallarm,...

A week in security (June 19 - 25)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Microsoft Azure AD flaw can lead to account takeover 5 facts to know about the Royal ransomware gang Malwarebytes only vendor to win every MRG Effitas award in 2022 & 2023 UPS warns customers of phishing attempts after data accessed 6 tips for a cybersecure honeymo...