Quick Wins to Combat Data Leaks

Data leakage is a worry. Holding lots of sensitive information about your employees and your customers means that if data is exposed it would be a catastrophe. No one wants to be the next Mossack Fonseca, or Equifax, or Marriott Hotel, or Facebook, or… The majority of clients I speak to tell me...

Cisco Webex Centers CVE-2020-3116 Denial of Service Vulnerability

Description Cisco Webex Centers is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this issue to cause a denial-of-service condition. This issue is being tracked by Cisco Bug IDs CSCvr16379, CSCvr16383 and CSCvr16386. Technologies Affected Cisco WebEx Event Center Cisco WebEx...

14 Ways to Evade Botnet Malware Attacks On Your Computers

Cybercriminals are busy innovators, adapting their weapons and attack strategies, and ruthlessly roaming the web in search of their next big score. Every manner of sensitive information, such as confidential employee records, customers' financial data, protected medical documents, and government...

5 Reasons Why Programmers Should Think like Hackers

Programming has five main steps: the identification and definition of the problem, the planning of the solution for the problem, coding of the program, testing, and documentation. It's a meticulous process that cannot be completed without going through all the essential points. In all of these,...

New Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS) veterans program aims to bridge skills gap, diversify sector

The cybersecurity industry has a problem: We have zero unemployment rate. Or so we're told. With experts predicting millions of job openings in the years to come—coupled with the industry’s projected growth of US$289.9 billion by 2026 and soaring cyberattacks against businesses—now is as good a...

Manipulating Machine Learning Systems by Manipulating Training Data

Interesting research: "TrojDRL: Trojan Attacks on Deep Reinforcement Learning Agents": Abstract:: Recent work has identified that classification models implemented as neural networks are vulnerable to data-poisoning and Trojan attacks at training time. In this work, we show that these training-ti...

Managing the Human Security Factor in the Age of Ransomware

Security analysts have determined that cybercrime cost the global economy $1.5 trillion in 2018. Ransomware, in particular, is estimated to grow by as much as 350 percent over the next year. And while the ransom for a generic ransomware attack has now risen to nearly $13,000, with recent targeted...

CVE-2019-15987 Cisco WebEx Centers Username Enumeration Information Disclosure Vulnerability

A vulnerability in web interface of the Cisco Webex Event Center, Cisco Webex Meeting Center, Cisco Webex Support Center, and Cisco Webex Training Center could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to guess account usernames. The vulnerability is due to missing CAPTCHA protection in certain...

Rethinking cyber learning—consider gamification

As promised, I’m back with a follow-up to my recent post, Rethinking how we learn security, on how we need modernize the learning experience for cybersecurity professionals by gamifying training to make learning fun. Some of you may have attended the recent Microsoft Ignite events in Orlando and...

Cisco Webex Centers CVE-2019-15987 Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Description Cisco Webex Centers are prone to an information-disclosure vulnerability. Attackers can exploit this issue to obtain sensitive information that may aid in further attacks. This issue is being tracked by Cisco Bug IDs CSCvq81213 and CSCvq81230. Cisco Webex Event Center, Cisco Webex...

How the new Talos IR Cyber Range can prepare your employees for a cyber attack

By Gerard Johansen, Charles Iszard and Luke DuCharme. With the surge of ransomware attacks, information leaks and other cyber attacks in the headlines, most companies and organizations are aware that their employees need to be trained on how to stay safe online. But the real challenge lies in how...

vulhub

It is an offensive tool for web application security training. The tool is a collection of pre-built vulnerable docker environments, Vulhub, which can be used to test and train web application security skills. The tool is designed to be easy to use, with a simple installation process and a...

ENFUSE 2019: Security Regulations, Insider Threats, and IoT Privacy Risks

LAS VEGAS – From insider threats, Internet of Things insecurity, to medical device hacking, ENFUSE 2019 broke down the top privacy and security issues help desks are seeing today. It also tackle what regulatory efforts are being developed to address those threats. Threatpost editor Lindsey...

5 Reasons to Attend Qualys Security Conference 2019

Qualys is a leader in cybersecurity and one of the more recognizable and respected names in the industry. It should be. The company has been around for 20 years, and it continues to innovate and push the envelope. Later this month, Qualys will take over Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas for the Qualys...

vulhub

This is an open-source collection of pre-built vulnerable docker environments. It is not a single exploit or tool, but rather a collection of vulnerable environments that can be used for testing and training purposes. The target product/service or framework is not explicitly stated, but the...

Welcome to the second stage of BlueHat!

We’ve finished two incredible days of security trainings at the Living Computer Museum in Seattle. Now it’s time for the second part of BlueHat: the briefings at ShowBox SoDo. We’ve got a big day planned, so head on down. Please join us for breakfast we have doughnuts! and bacon! and cereal! when...

How to Avoid the Top Three Causes of Data Breaches in 2019

What's the price of unprotected IT infrastructure? Cybercrime Magazine says that global damages will surpass $6 billion as soon as 2021. Here we'll go through some of the most frequent and emerging causes of data breaches in 2019 and see how to address them in a timely manner. Misconfigured Cloud...

Welcome to the second stage of BlueHat!

We’ve finished two incredible days of security trainings at the Living Computer Museum in Seattle. Now it’s time for the second part of BlueHat: the briefings at ShowBox SoDo. We’ve got a big day planned, so head on down. Please join us for breakfast we have doughnuts! and bacon! and cereal!...

vulhub

It is an offensive tool for Vulnerability Research and Training. The repository, vulhub, contains pre-built vulnerable environments based on Docker-Compose. The primary vulnerability is not explicitly stated, but the repository includes various vulnerable environments, such as Flask SSTI, Apache...

nlm.training Improper Access Control vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-984874 Security Researcher onuratali Helped patch 99 vulnerabilities Received 3 Coordinated Disclosure badges , a holder of 3 badges for responsible and coordinated disclosure, found a security vulnerability affecting nlm.training website and its users. Following coordinat...