Ransomware has become a cost of doing business
It’s easy to see why ransomware aimed at businesses is such a cash cow for criminals: for every Norsk Hydro and Fujifilm that refuses to pay the ransom, there is a …
Zeljka Zorz
Can your MFA implementations stymie MFA bypass attacks?
Shay Nahari, Head of Red-Team services at CyberArk, says that they’ve been increasingly asked by customers to probe their multi-factor authentication (MFA) defenses, …
What happens to email accounts once credentials are compromised?
Agari researchers entered unique credentials belonging to fake personas into phishing sites posing as widely used enterprise applications, and waited to see what the phishers …
June 2021 Patch Tuesday: Microsoft fixes six actively exploited zero-days
On this June 2021 Patch Tuesday: Microsoft has fixed 50 security vulnerabilities, six of which are actively exploited zero-days Adobe has delivered security updates for …
Beware of “Ransomware system update” emails!
Emails referencing the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack and looking like they’ve been sent from the corporate IT help desk have been hitting employees’ inboxes …
New Google tool reveals dependencies for open source projects
Google has been working on a new, experimental tool to help developers discover the dependencies of the open source packages/libraries they use and known security …
Data sharing in a smart city: Choosing the right approach
Smart cities should, ideally, work as a well-oiled clock, but we’re still far, far away from that. First of all, smart cities are still being built, one siloed segment …
White House urges private sector to enhance their ransomware defenses
In light of the ransomware attacks hitting high-profile targets such as the Colonial Pipeline and JBS, the White House has issued an open letter to private sector companies, …
Kali Linux 2021.2 released: Kaboxer, Kali-Tweaks, new tools, and more!
Offensive Security has released Kali Linux 2021.2, the latest version of its popular open source penetration testing platform. You can download it or upgrade to it. Kali Linux …
Kali Linux team releases Kaboxer, a tool for managing applications in containers
The team behind the popular pentesting Kali Linux distro has released Kaboxer, a tool to help penetration testers use older applications that don’t work on modern …
Belgium’s Interior Ministry uncovers 2-year-long compromise of its network
Belgium’s Federal Public Service Interior (i.e., the country’s Interior Ministry) has suffered a “complex, sophisticated and targeted cyberattack.” …
VMware fixes critical vCenter Server RCE vulnerability, urges immediate action (CVE-2021-21985)
VMware has patched two vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-21985, CVE-2021-21986) affecting VMware vCenter Server and VMware Cloud Foundation and is urging administrators to implement …
