5 cybersecurity tips for students going back to school

The new school season is just around the corner. And while you are getting ready to go back to school, now is a good opportunity to check you are doing all you can to stay as safe as possible online. Make sure you are doing these five things: 1. Use multi-factor authentication MFA MFA has become ...

Stop Putting Your Accounts At Risk, and Start Using a Password Manager

--- Image via Keeper Right Now, Get 30% Off Keeper, the Most Trusted Name in Password Management. In one way or another, almost every aspect of our lives is online, so it's no surprise that hackers target everything from email accounts to banks to smart home devices, looking for vulnerabilities t...

UBUNTU-CVE-2022-24807

net-snmp provides various tools relating to the Simple Network Management Protocol. Prior to version 5.9.2, a malformed OID in a SET request to SNMP-VIEW-BASED-ACM-MIB::vacmAccessTable can cause an out-of-bounds memory access. A user with read-write credentials can exploit the issue. Version 5.9....

Google Improves Its Password Manager to Boost Security Across All Platforms

Google on Thursday announced a slew of improvements to its password manager service aimed at creating a more consistent look and feel across different platforms. Central to the changes is a "simplified and unified management experience that's the same in Chrome and Android settings," Ali Sarraf,...

PT-2022-7447 · Net Snmp +8 · Net-Snmp +8

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: net-snmp versions prior to 5.9.2 Description: The issue is related to a NULL pointer dereference in the nsVacmAccessTable component of the net-snmp software. This can be caused by a user with read-write credentials using a malformed OID in a...

Apple’s passkeys attempt to solve the password problem

The recent Apple Worldwide Developers Conference WWDC revealed another teasing of what has been referred to as "the end of passwords forever". Passkeys are a "new biometric sign-in standard". Biometrics in security circles are used for things like identity cards, building access, and so on. This...

Researchers Demonstrate Ransomware for IoT Devices That Targets IT and OT Networks

As ransomware infections have evolved from purely encrypting data to schemes such as double and triple extortion, a new attack vector is likely to set the stage for future campaigns. Called Ransomware for IoT or R4IoT by Forescout, it's a "novel, proof-of-concept ransomware that exploits an IoT...

@csltech/strong-nginx-controller (>=1.0.2 <=1.0.3), @csltech/strong-pm (>=7.0.0 <=7.0.2) +56 more potentially affected by CVE-2016-1000229 via swagger-ui (>=2.0.17 <=2.1.8-M1)

swagger-ui NPM version =2.0.17, =1.0.2, =7.0.0, =3.0.1, =2.0.0, =1.0.1, =1.0.1, =2.8.29, =1.0.1, =5.0.232, =0.0.1, =0.4.1, =1.0.1, =0.0.1, =0.0.27, =0.1.9 and more Source cves: CVE-2016-1000229 Source advisory: OSV:GHSA-H8WP-WGCQ-QHRF...

Password policy guidance

Why do we need strong passwords? Passwords are stored by using a one-way hashing algorithm to generate a representation of the original password on a securely designed system. Authentication mechanisms then compare the calculated hash of an entered password with the stored hash value to determine...

[SECURITY] Fedora 36 Update: zchunk-1.2.2-1.fc36

zchunk is a compressed file format that splits the file into independent chunks. This allows you to only download the differences when downloading a new version of the file, and also makes zchunk files efficient over rsync. zchunk files are protected with strong checksums to verify that the file...

Fedora: Security Advisory for zchunk (FEDORA-2022-fef374d46f)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

[SECURITY] Fedora 35 Update: zchunk-1.2.2-1.fc35

zchunk is a compressed file format that splits the file into independent chunks. This allows you to only download the differences when downloading a new version of the file, and also makes zchunk files efficient over rsync. zchunk files are protected with strong checksums to verify that the file...

Zero-Trust For All: A Practical Guide

While “zero-trust architecture” has become a buzz phrase, there’s plenty of confusion as to what it actually is. Is it a concept? A standard? A framework? An actual set of technology platforms? According to security experts, it’s best described as a fresh mindset for approaching cybersecurity...

Why identity management matters

Today is Identity Management Day, which aims to inform the public about the dangers of casually or improperly managing and securing digital identities. The day was started in 2021 and is hosted by the Identity Defined Security Alliance IDSA and National Cybersecurity Alliance. Digital identity A...

TM Named CWS "Strong Performer" in Forrester Wave 2022

Trend Micro was named a strong performer in the Forrester Wave™: Cloud Workload Security, Q1 2022, achieving the highest possible score in the market presence category. That said, Trend Micro Cloud One secures far more than workloads and containers...

TM Named CWS "Strong Performer" by Research Firm

Trend Micro was named a strong performer in the Forrester Wave™: Cloud Workload Security, Q1 2022, achieving the highest possible score in the market presence category. That said, Trend Micro Cloud One secures far more than workloads and containers...

FIDO: Here’s Another Knife to Help Murder Passwords

We all hate passwords, but none of us want to make logging into our accounts a hassle with extra time, steps and devices. That’s why the Fast Identity Online Alliance FIDO published a white paper PDF on Thursday, outlining different use cases for the adoption of their FIDO2 set of specifications...

How to protect RDP

You didn’t really think that the ransomware wave was coming to an end, did you? You may be tempted to think so, given the decline in reports about massive ransomware campaigns. Dont be fooled. Over the last five years, one of the primary attack vectors for ransomware attacks has been the Remote...

RangnarLocker Ransomware hits Critical Infrastructure Compromising 50+ Organizations

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has released an alert on Ragnarlocker campaign that has affected nearly 52 organizations encompassing 10 critical infrastructure sectors, including entities in significant manufacturing,...

UNIVERGE WA Series vulnerable to OS command injection

Overview UNIVERGE WA Series provided by NEC Platforms, Ltd. contains an OS command injection vulnerability. Remote system maintenance feature of UNIVERGE WA series "Local maintenance console/Remote maintenance console/Web based remote console maintenance" contains an OS command injection...