Engaging students in cybersecurity: a primer for educators

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Maimonides The education sector has had its share of breaches. And schools, like medical and retail institutions, continue to struggle when it comes to securing their highly-priced assets: student a...

Vecna VGo Robot (Update A)

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 8.8 --------- Begin Update A Part 1 of 6 --------- ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low skill level to exploit --------- End Update A Part 1 of 6 --------- Vendor: Vecna Technologies, Inc. Vecna Equipment: VGo Robot --------- Begin Update A Part 2 of 6 ---------...

Hackers Behind Healthcare Espionage Infect X-Ray and MRI Machines

Security researchers have uncovered a new hacking group that is aggressively targeting healthcare organizations and related sectors across the globe to conduct corporate espionage. Dubbed "Orangeworm," the hacking group has been found installing a wormable trojan on machines hosting software used...

HackerOne CEO Talks Bug Bounty Programs at RSA Conference

SAN FRANCISCO – Marten Mickos, HackerOne CEO, catches up with Threatpost at RSA Conference to discuss hot-button issues around modern bounty programs. Topics range from how to design a program to protect consumer privacy and vulnerability disclosure issues. Mickos also reflects on the growing...

RSAC 2018: Tech Giants Form Cybersecurity Tech Accord

SAN FRANCISCO – Microsoft President Brad Smith during a keynote at the 2018 RSA Conference condemned government-backed cyberattacks as endangering innocent civilian’s lives – and said that tech companies need to come together to “open the world’s eyes to the impact that this is having.” At this...

Word Attachment Delivers FormBook Malware, No Macros Required

A new wave of document attacks targeting inboxes do not require enabling macros in order for adversaries to trigger an infection chain that ultimately delivers FormBook malware. Researchers at Menlo Security are reporting a wave of attacks that began last month that are targeting financial and...

Security baselines should underpin efforts to manage cybersecurity risk across sectors

This post is authored byAngela McKay, Director of Cybersecurity Policy and Amanda Craig, Senior Cybersecurity Strategist, CELA. Organizations are leveraging technology to transform their operations, products, and services, and governments are increasingly focusing on how to enable such dynamic...

A week in security (April 02 – April 08)

Last week, we took a look at fake Whatsapp antics, dubious gaming extensions, and a huge Panera bread breach. There was also LockCrypt ransomware to contend with, we had a poke around Linkedin, and we published another Physician, protect thyself blog. Other news Compromised cash register systems...

Mirai Variant Targets Financial Sector With IoT DDoS Attacks

A variant of the Mirai botnet was used to launch a series of distributed denial of service campaigns against financial sector businesses. The attacks utilized at least 13,000 hijacked IoT devices generating traffic volumes up to 30 Gbps, considerably less intense than the original Mirai assaults...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Natus NeuroWorks Multiple Vulnerabilities

Vulnerabilities discovered by Cory Duplantis from Talos Overview Talos has discovered multiple vulnerabilities in Natus NeuroWorks software. This software is used in the Natus Xltek EEG medical products from Natus Medical Inc. The vulnerable devices contain an ethernet connection for data...

Orbitz Warns 880,000 Payment Cards Suspected Stolen

Expedia-owned travel site Orbitz said Tuesday a possible breach of both its consumer and partner platforms may have led to the disclosure of 880,000 payment cards. According to Expedia, criminals had access to Orbitz consumer and business partner platforms, but not the Orbitz.com website. The...

Suspected Chinese Cyber Espionage Group (TEMP.Periscope) Targeting U.S. Engineering and Maritime Industries

Intrusions Focus on the Engineering and Maritime Sector Since early 2018, FireEye including our FireEye as a Service FaaS, Mandiant Consulting, and iSIGHT Intelligence teams has been tracking an ongoing wave of intrusions targeting engineering and maritime entities, especially those connected to...

Is the financial sector the most vulnerable to cyber attacks?

By Patrick Vernon The financial services industry is crucial to the health of This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Is the financial sector the most vulnerable to cyber attacks?...

CannibalRAT targets Brazil

This post was authored by Warren Mercer and Vitor Ventura Introduction Talos has identified two different versions of a RAT, otherwise known as a remote access trojan, that has been written entirely in Python and is wrapped into a standalone executable. The RAT is impacting users of a Brazilian...

Philips Intellispace Portal elevation of privilege vulnerability (CNVD-2018-03813)

The Philips Intellispace Portal processes clinical images from different modalities and enables advanced visualization of images.ISP systems are deployed in the healthcare and public health sectors. An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Philips Intellispace Portal that could allow an...

Philips Intellispace Portal elevation of privilege vulnerability (CNVD-2018-03814)

The Philips Intellispace Portal processes clinical images from different modalities and enables advanced visualization of images.ISP systems are deployed in the healthcare and public health sectors. An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Philips Intellispace Portal that could allow an...

Nari PCS-9611 (Update A)

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 9.8 ATTENTION : Exploitable remotely/low skill level to exploit. Vendor : Nari Equipment : PCS-9611 Vulnerability : Improper Input Validation 2. UPDATE INFORMATION This updated advisory is a follow-up to the original advisory titled ICSA-18-025-01 Nari PCS-9611 that...

PT-2018-17105 · Malwarefox · Malwarefox Antimalware

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Malwarefox Anti-Malware version 2.72.169 Description: The issue allows local users to cause a denial of service BSOD or possibly have unspecified other impact because of not validating input values from IOCtl 0x80002010. This vulnerability ha...

Operation Dragonfly Analysis Suggests Links to Earlier Attacks

ARCHIVED STORY Operation Dragonfly Analysis Suggests Links to Earlier Attacks By Trellix · December 17, 2017 On September 6, Symantec published details of the Dragonfly campaign, which targeted dozens of energy companies throughout 2017. This attack was effectively Dragonfly 2.0, an update to a...

Symantec Encryption Desktop And Endpoint Encryption Local Privilege Escalation

Vulnerabilities in Symantec Encryption Desktop and Endpoint Encryption allow an attacker to attain arbitrary hard disk read and write access at sector level, and subsequently infect the target and gain low level persistence MBR/VBR. They also allow the attacker to execute code in the context of t...