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IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-12-23

120 posts were published in the last hour 22:4 : ‘That’s not a bug, it’s a feature’ takes on a darker tone when malware’s involved 21:4 : What is a public key and how does it work? 21:4 : DEF…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-12-22

19 posts were published in the last hour 21:4 : How to craft a comprehensive data cleanliness policy 20:5 : IT Security News Hourly Summary 2024-12-22 21h : 1 posts 19:31 : DEF CON 32 – NTLM: The Last Ride…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-12-21

33 posts were published in the last hour 22:32 : BadBox rapidly grows, 190,000 Android devices infected 20:32 : DEF CON 32 – Grand Theft Actions Abusing Self Hosted GitHub Runners 17:32 : EFF Tells Appeals Court To Keep Copyright’s…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-12-20

138 posts were published in the last hour 22:31 : Sophos fixed critical vulnerabilities in its Firewall product 20:31 : Third member of LockBit ransomware gang has been arrested 20:7 : Identity and access management tools and features for 2025…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-12-19

188 posts were published in the last hour 22:31 : Check Point Recognized in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Vision and Execution 22:9 : Check Point Recognized in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Vision and Execution 21:32 :…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-12-18

142 posts were published in the last hour 21:32 : Slack is becoming an AI workplace: Here’s what that means for your job 21:32 : US may ban world’s most popular routers and modems – what that means for you…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-12-17

140 posts were published in the last hour 22:31 : What is PKI (public key infrastructure)? 22:31 : Texas Tech University data breach impacted 1.4 million individuals 22:5 : Critical security hole in Apache Struts under exploit 21:9 : How…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-12-16

145 posts were published in the last hour 22:32 : Microsoft December Patch Tuesday Arrived With 70+ Bug Fixes 22:32 : Water Facilities Must Secure Exposed HMIs – Warns CISA 22:32 : SAFECOM Honors Mr. Michael Murphy with the 2024…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-12-15

27 posts were published in the last hour 20:5 : IT Security News Hourly Summary 2024-12-15 21h : 1 posts 19:36 : MC2 Data – 2,122,280 breached accounts 18:34 : Exploit attempts inspired by recent Struts2 File Upload Vulnerability (CVE-2024-53677,…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-12-14

49 posts were published in the last hour 22:32 : IOCONTROL cyberweapon used to target infrastructure in the US and Isreael 21:38 : Black Hat Europe 2024: Why a CVSS score of 7.5 may be a ‘perfect’ 10 in your…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-12-13

118 posts were published in the last hour 22:7 : Canadian Eyecare Firm Care1 Exposes 2.2TB of Patient Records 22:6 : Risk & Repeat: Attacks ramp up on Cleo MFT software 22:6 : Week in Review: Salt Typhoon saga, Microsoft…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-12-12

134 posts were published in the last hour 22:35 : The Growing Importance of Secure Crypto Payment Gateways 22:35 : EFF Speaks Out in Court for Citizen Journalists 21:5 : Cleo patches file transfer zero-day flaw under attack 21:5 :…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-12-11

138 posts were published in the last hour 22:32 : Microsoft Defender XDR demonstrates 100% detection coverage across all cyberattack stages in the 2024 MITRE ATT&CK® Evaluations: Enterprise​​ 22:32 : Frequent freeloader part II: Russian actor Secret Blizzard using tools…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-12-10

172 posts were published in the last hour 22:7 : Webhook security: Risks and best practices for mitigation 22:6 : Why software composition analysis is essential for open source security 21:5 : Microsoft Patch Tuesday for December 2024 contains four…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-12-09

157 posts were published in the last hour 22:34 : DEF CON 32 – Compromising Electronic Logger & Creating Truck2Truck Worm 21:38 : Critical Windows Zero-Day Alert: No Patch Available Yet for Users 21:38 : Shared Intel Q&A: A thriving…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-12-08

31 posts were published in the last hour 21:5 : IT Security News Hourly Summary 2024-12-08 22h : 1 posts 20:34 : Web hosting providers have started to accept crypto payments: Here’s why 18:5 : IT Security News Hourly Summary…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-12-07

43 posts were published in the last hour 22:5 : IT Security News Hourly Summary 2024-12-07 23h : 1 posts 21:5 : IT Security News Hourly Summary 2024-12-07 22h : 1 posts 20:34 : 8Base ransomware group hacked Croatia’s Port…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-12-06

152 posts were published in the last hour 22:36 : Friday Squid Blogging: Safe Quick Undercarriage Immobilization Device 22:5 : IT Security News Hourly Summary 2024-12-06 23h : 6 posts 22:4 : Facing sale or ban, TikTok tossed under national…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-12-05

160 posts were published in the last hour 22:36 : Chinese Hackers Breach US Firm, Maintain Network Access for Months 22:36 : Check Point XDR/XPR Reaches New Heights: Climbing Even Higher as a Frost Radar™ XDR Growth and Innovation Leader…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-12-04

140 posts were published in the last hour 22:31 : Black Basta ransomware gang hit BT Group 22:31 : Location Tracking Tools Endanger Abortion Access. Lawmakers Must Act Now. 22:5 : IT Security News Hourly Summary 2024-12-04 23h : 6…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-12-02

120 posts were published in the last hour 22:5 : IT Security News Hourly Summary 2024-12-02 23h : 3 posts 22:2 : Sweet Security Introduces Evolutionary Leap in Cloud Detection and Response, Releasing First Unified Detection & Response Platform 21:8…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-12-01

23 posts were published in the last hour 22:5 : IT Security News Hourly Summary 2024-12-01 23h : 1 posts 21:5 : IT Security News Hourly Summary 2024-12-01 22h : 1 posts 20:32 : Interpol nabs thousands, seizes millions in…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-11-30

40 posts were published in the last hour 21:5 : IT Security News Hourly Summary 2024-11-30 22h : 1 posts 20:6 : 15 SpyLoan Android apps found on Google Play had over 8 million installs 19:6 : November 2024 Web…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-11-29

87 posts were published in the last hour 18:5 : IT Security News Hourly Summary 2024-11-29 19h : 5 posts 18:2 : Shop Safely Online This Holiday Season with Tips from Secure Our World 18:2 : Zabbix urges upgrades after…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-11-28

86 posts were published in the last hour 21:5 : IT Security News Hourly Summary 2024-11-28 22h : 1 posts 20:5 : IT Security News Hourly Summary 2024-11-28 21h : 1 posts 20:2 : German Government Plots €2 Billion For…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-11-27

131 posts were published in the last hour 22:5 : IT Security News Hourly Summary 2024-11-27 23h : 5 posts 22:2 : Gen AI could speed up coding, but businesses should still consider risks 22:2 : Bootkitty is the first…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-11-26

151 posts were published in the last hour 22:5 : IT Security News Hourly Summary 2024-11-26 23h : 5 posts 22:2 : Russian hackers exploit Firefox, Windows zero-days in wild 22:2 : Software firm Blue Yonder providing services to US…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-11-25

128 posts were published in the last hour 22:5 : IT Security News Hourly Summary 2024-11-25 23h : 6 posts 22:2 : GLASSBRIDGE: Google Blocks Thousands of Pro-China Fake News Sites 22:2 : Top 5 Disaster Recovery Companies for 2024…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-11-24

25 posts were published in the last hour 22:5 : IT Security News Hourly Summary 2024-11-24 23h : 1 posts 22:2 : DEF CON 32 – The Pwnie Awards 19:5 : IT Security News Hourly Summary 2024-11-24 20h : 1…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-11-23

43 posts were published in the last hour 19:5 : IT Security News Hourly Summary 2024-11-23 20h : 6 posts 18:8 : Andrew Tate’s University Breach: 1 Million User Records and Chats Leaked 18:8 : A cyberattack on gambling giant…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-11-22

124 posts were published in the last hour 22:31 : Friday Squid Blogging: Transcriptome Analysis of the Indian Squid 22:5 : IT Security News Hourly Summary 2024-11-22 23h : 2 posts 21:34 : 1000s of Palo Alto Networks firewalls hijacked…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-11-21

182 posts were published in the last hour 22:32 : Do you actually need a VPN? Your guide to staying safe online! 22:32 : DEF CON 32 – Unlocking The Gates: Hacking A Secure Industrial Remote Access Solution 22:32 :…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-11-18

137 posts were published in the last hour 22:13 : What CISOs need to know to build an OT cybersecurity program 22:5 : IT Security News Hourly Summary 21:11 : CISA Adds Three Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog 21:11 :…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-11-17

27 posts were published in the last hour 21:5 : IT Security News Hourly Summary 20:32 : 3 leadership lessons we can learn from ethical hackers 19:5 : IT Security News Hourly Summary 18:34 : Will passkeys ever replace passwords?…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-11-16

34 posts were published in the last hour 22:5 : IT Security News Hourly Summary 21:5 : IT Security News Hourly Summary 20:35 : Google’s Gemini AI Chatbot Keeps Telling Users to Die 19:9 : Reboot Revolution Protecting iPhone Users…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-11-14

What is identity governance and administration (IGA)? Is your iPhone rebooting after being inactive? It’s a feature, not a bug Meet Andy Zollo, SVP of APJ Sales Business Logic Attacks Target Election-Related Sites on Election Day Cybercriminal devoid of boundaries…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-11-13

Joint Statement from FBI and CISA on the People’s Republic of China (PRC) Targeting of Commercial Telecommunications Infrastructure Most widely exploited vulnerabilities in 2023 were zero days Biometrics in the Cyber World Data broker amasses 100M+ records on people –…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-11-12

WordPress Database Scanning For Malware Released in Wordfence CLI 5.0.1 Microsoft’s November Patch Tuesday Fixes 91 Vulnerabilities, 4 Zero-Days Microsoft Patch Tuesday, November 2024 Edition Ahold Delhaize experienced a cyber incident affecting several of its U.S. brands Here’s what we…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-11-11

The PANCCD™ Model: Strengthening Cyber Resiliency and Compliance Google DeepMind open-sources AlphaFold 3, ushering in a new era for drug discovery and molecular biology Avast SecureLine VPN Review 2024: Is It a Good VPN for You? The PANCCD™ Model: Strengthening…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-11-09

FBI: Spike in Hacked Police Emails, Fake Subpoenas iPhones might be harder for police to unlock, thanks to new reboot feature Veeam Backup & Replication exploit reused in new Frag ransomware attack DEF CON 32 – Taming the Beast: Inside…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-11-08

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid-A-Rama in Des Moines DEF CON 32 – Securing CCTV Cameras Against Blind Spots – Jacob Shams Week in Review: Sophos Chinese hacker warning, AI flaws and vulnerabilities HackerOne: Nearly Half of Security Professionals Believe AI Is…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-11-07

Wordfence Price Increases Coming December 5th, 2024 Stronger Together: Cisco and Splunk’s strategic push for digital resilience Don’t open that ‘copyright infringement’ email attachment – it’s an infostealer How to create an enterprise cloud security budget CISA Kicks Off Critical…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-11-06

AI-Assisted Attacks Top Cyber Threat For Third Consecutive Quarter, Gartner Finds INTERPOL: Operation Synergia II disrupted +22,000 malicious IPs Increasing Awareness of DNS Hijacking: A Growing Cyber Threat Video: 2.9 Billion Records Compromised in NPD Breach – Recap Cybercrooks are…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-11-05

ToxicPanda Android banking trojan targets Europe and LATAM, with a focus on Italy Dennis Kirk – 1,356,026 breached accounts Canadian Man Accused of Snowflake Data Breach Arrested How to Become a Chief Information Officer: CIO Cheat Sheet AI in Criminal…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-11-04

FIDO: Consumers are Adopting Passkeys for Authentication DEF CON 32 – OH MY DC Abusing OIDC All The Way To Your Cloud MDR vs. MSSP: Making the Right Choice for Your Business Vulnerability Recap 11/4/24 – Fourteen-Year Bug Finally Gets…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-11-03

Half of Online Child Grooming Cases Now Happen on Snapchat, Reports UK Charity Redline And Meta Infostealers Targeted in Operation Magnus 6 IT contractors arrested for defrauding Uncle Sam out of millions Strava’s Privacy Flaws: Exposing Sensitive Locations of Leaders…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-11-02

FBI arrested former Disney World employee for hacking computer menus and mislabeling allergy info Sophos details five years of China-linked threat actors’ activity targeting network devices worldwide DEF CON 32 – On Your Ocean’s 11 Team, I’m The AI Guy…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-11-01

TA Phone Home: EDR Evasion Testing Reveals Extortion Actor’s Toolkit Booking.com Phishers May Leave You With Reservations Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Sculpture in Massachusetts Building GreyNoise: AI’s Central Role in Detecting Security Flaws in IoT Devices Week in Review: Deepfake…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-10-31

Stalker Online – 1,385,472 breached accounts October 2024 Web Server Survey UnitedHealth Hires Longtime Cybersecurity Executive as CISO AI Pulse: Election Deepfakes, Disasters, Scams & more Microsoft delays its troubled AI-powered Recall feature yet again 6 Best Cybersecurity Training for…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-10-30

Windows Themes zero-day bug exposes users to NTLM credential theft Fake Meta Ads Hijacking Facebook Accounts to Spread SYS01 Infostealer The cybsecurity problems and opportunities facing open-source startups Sorry, Gas Companies – Parody Isn’t Infringement (Even If It Creeps You…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-10-29

International law enforcement operation dismantled RedLine and Meta infostealers Master Incident Response with Hands-On Training in IR-200: Foundational Incident Response Midnight Blizzard conducts large-scale spear-phishing campaign using RDP files Tony Fadell: Innovating to save our planet | Starmus highlights DEF…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-10-28

Adding threat detection to custom authentication flow with Amazon Cognito advanced security features Vulnerability Recap 10/28/24 – Phishing, DoS, RCE & a Zero-Day France’s second-largest telecoms provider Free suffered a cyber attack The SaaS Governance Gap | Grip Security Exploring…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-10-27

How Has Video Analytics Enhanced Security and Efficiency? The Imperative of Penetration Testing AI Systems Orchestrating Success: How Rehearsals in Music Mirror Cybersecurity Resiliency DEF CON 32 – AppSec Village – Ticking SQLi Two currently (old) exploited Ivanti vulnerabilities, (Sun,…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-10-26

Mastering Cybersecurity: A Comprehensive Guide to Self-Learning How (and why) federated learning enhances cybersecurity Security Defenses Crippled by Embargo Ransomware CISA Proposes New Security Measures to Protect U.S. Personal and Government Data Artifact Tracking: Workstation Names Chinese cyber spies targeted…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-10-25

Chinese Hackers Target Trump Campaign via Verizon Breach Innovator Spotlight: Legit Security Sophos Acquires Dell’s Secureworks for $859 Million 7 Best Attack Surface Management Software for 2025 Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Found on Spanish Beach How to mitigate bot…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-10-24

How the ransomware attack at Change Healthcare went down: A timeline UnitedHealth says Change Healthcare data breach affects over 100 million people in America Pwn2Own Ireland 2024 Day 2: participants demonstrated an exploit against Samsung Galaxy S24 Apple will pay…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-10-23

Deceptive Google Meet Invites Lure Users Into Malware Scams ‘Satanic’ data thief claims to have slipped into 350M Hot Topic shoppers info Microsoft Threat Intelligence healthcare ransomware report highlights need for collective industry action Critical Flaw in Open Policy Agent…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-10-22

SEC fines four companies $7M for ‘misleading cyber disclosures’ regarding SolarWinds hack Burning Zero Days: FortiJump FortiManager vulnerability used by nation state in espionage via MSPs Implement Hibernate Second-Level Cache With NCache The best VPN for Mac in 2024: Expert…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-10-21

Vulnerability Recap 10/21/24 – Immediate Patching Is Critical FedRAMP Certification and Compliance: What It Is and Why It Matters Types of Security Audits: Overview and Best Practices Internet Archive (Archive.org) Hacked for Second Time in a Month How to Implement…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-10-20

“HM Surf” macOS Flaw Lets Attackers Access Camera and Mic – Patch Now! The AI edge in cybersecurity: Predictive tools aim to slash response times Cyber Threats by Nation-States Surge Beyond Control USENIX NSDI ’24 – Reasoning About Network Traffic…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-10-19

USENIX NSDI ’24 – Crescent: Emulating Heterogeneous Production Network at Scale Threat actors exploiting zero-days faster than ever – Week in security with Tony Anscombe USENIX NSDI ’24 – A High-Performance Design, Implementation, Deployment, and Evaluation of The Slim Fly…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-10-18

FBI and CISA Issue Public Service Announcement Warning of Tactics Foreign Threat Actors are Using to Spread Disinformation in the 2024 U.S. General Election Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Scarf Iran-linked actors target critical infrastructure organizations APIContext Joins Akamai’s Qualified Compute…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-10-17

How to Attract Top Cybersecurity Talent Microsoft: Ransomware Attacks Growing More Dangerous, Complex 5 AI Security Takeaways featuring Forrester How to Mitigate the Impact of Rogue AI Risks California Attorney General Issues New Guidance on Military Equipment to Law Enforcement…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-10-16

Volkswagen monitoring data dump threat from 8Base ransomware crew Preemption Playbook: Big Tech’s Blueprint Comes Straight from Big Tobacco Code Execution, Data Tampering Flaw in Nvidia NeMo Gen-AI Framework US Charges Duo Behind Anonymous Sudan for Over 35,000 DDoS Attacks…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-10-15

Acting Like We Care About Security Complete Guide to Cybersecurity for Small Businesses Kubernetes Security Best Practices 2024 Guide Cybercriminals Are Increasingly Helping Russia and China Target the US and Allies, Microsoft Says New EFF Report Provides Guidance to Ensure…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-10-14

U.S. CISA adds Fortinet products and Ivanti CSA bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog USENIX NSDI ’24 – CHISEL: An Optical Slice of the Wide-Area Network Decoding DORA: EU’s Unified Approach to ICT Risk Governance Gmail users, beware of…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-10-13

USENIX NSDI ’24 – Spectrumize: Spectrum-Efficient Satellite Networks for the Internet of Things Teraleak: Pokémon Developer Game Freak Hacked; Decades of Data Leaked Patch-22: The Catch of Waiting to Fix Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities AsyncRAT Malware Exploits Bitbucket to Launch Multi-Stage Attack…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-10-12

New Yunit Infostealer Bypasses Windows Defender and Steals Sensitive Data How to Recover a Hacked Gmail Account Even After a Security Breach Comcast Data Breach Impacts Thousands, Sensitive Information Compromised A cyber attack hit Iranian government sites and nuclear facilities…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-10-11

US lawmakers seek answers on alleged Salt Typhoon breach of telecom giants Indian Fishermen Are Catching Less Squid 11 Types of Cybercrime + How to Prevent Them Microsoft blocked your Windows 11 upgrade? This just-released tool can get the job…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-10-10

Lynx Ransomware: A Rebranding of INC Ransomware Remediation vs. Mitigation: The Choice Between Instant or Indirect Action How the Auth0 and Aembit Integration Boosts Non-Human Access Security Fidelity Data Breach Exposes Data of Over 77,000 Customers New IPANDETEC Report Shows…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-10-09

Atlassian ‘cloud-first’ becomes ‘enterprise-first’ Imperva Adaptive Threshold for Layer 7 DDoS Attacks Reduces Risk of Business Disruption Marriott settles for a piddly $52M after series of breaches affecting millions Microsoft Defender for Cloud remediated threats 30% faster than other solutions,…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-10-08

Starting to Care About Security VERT Threat Alert: October 2024 Patch Tuesday Analysis Qualcomm urges device makers to push patches after ‘targeted’ exploitation How IT Does IT for an IT Company Microsoft Defender for Cloud remediated threats 30% faster than…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-10-07

2024-10-07 – Data dump (Formbook, possible Astaroth/Guildma, Redline Stealer, unidentified malware) American Water stops billing for H2O due to ‘cybersecurity incident’ 7,000 WordPress Sites Affected by Unauthenticated Critical Vulnerabilities in LatePoint WordPress Plugin Integrate Spring Boot With jOOQ, Liquibase, and…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-10-06

China-linked group Salt Typhoon hacked US broadband providers and breached wiretap systems How Cybercriminals Use Stolen Data to Target Companies — A Deep Dive into the Dark Web 5 hurricane-tracking apps I rely on as a Floridian tech pro –…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-10-05

Session Hijacking Surges: Attackers Exploit MFA Gaps with Modern Tactics AI-Powered Malware Targets Crypto Wallets with Image Scans Inside the Dark Web: How Andariel Targets U.S. Organizations Phantom Domains: The New Threat to Enterprise Cybersecurity Complicated Passwords Make Users Less…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-10-04

No Way to Hide: Uncovering New Campaigns from Daily Tunneling Detection How open-source LLMs enable security teams to stay ahead of evolving threats Google removed Kaspersky’s security apps from the Play Store Why MFA alone won’t protect you in the…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-10-03

Understanding the Dependency Injection Lifecycle: Singleton, Scoped, and Transient With Detailed Examples Check Point Software Recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Firewall Solutions, Q4 2024 3thix partners with Avalanche on web3 gaming ad data Make Cybersecurity Awareness…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-10-02

Vote for EFF’s ‘How to Fix the Internet’ podcast in the Signal Awards! Two simple give-me-control security bugs found in Optigo network switches used in critical manufacturing U.S. CISA adds Ivanti Endpoint Manager (EPM) flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-10-01

Dotnet Source Generators in 2024 Part 1: Getting Started How to perform a proof of concept for automated discovery using Amazon Macie What Is Inside Microsoft’s Major Windows 11 Update? New security protocol shields data from attackers during cloud-based computation…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-09-30

Network Sniffing: A Critical Concept in Network Security CISA Announces the FY 2024 Rural Emergency Medical Communications Demonstration Project (REMCDP) Cooperative Agreement Recipient Google’s new Workspace password policy starts today: How to know if you’re affected Cybersecurity In Critical Infrastructure:…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-09-29

USENIX NSDI ’24 – The Bedrock of Byzantine Fault Tolerance: A Unified Platform for BFT Protocols Analysis, Implementation, and Experimentation Social Media Content Fueling AI: How Platforms Are Using Your Data for Training Red team hacker on how she ‘breaks…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-09-28

USENIX NSDI ’24 – SwiftPaxos: Fast Geo-Replicated State Machines Kansas Water Plant Switches to Manual Operations Following Cyberassault Protecting Your Business from Cybercriminals on Social Media Mozilla Privacy: Tracking Users Without Consent Reading Encrypted WhatsApp Messages Through Digital Forensics Ethics…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-09-27

Recall the Recall recall? Microsoft thinks it can make that Windows feature palatable How to Use a Conference Bridge to Run a Smooth Meeting Australian Organisations Targeted by Phishing Attacks Disguised as Atlassian What you need to know: The biggest…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-09-26

How hackers could have remotely controlled millions of cars Security compliance unicorn Drata lays off 9% of its workforce Unit 42 Incident Response Retainers Enhance Organizational Resilience Kryptina RaaS: From Unsellable Cast-Off to Enterprise Ransomware Patch for Critical CUPS vulnerability:…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-09-25

OpenAI’s brain drain continues: CTO Mira Murati jumps ship Simplifying SOAR Maintenance with D3’s Dynamic Data Normalization Dell Hit by Third Data Leak in a Week Amid “grep” Cyberattacks New variant of Necro Trojan infected more than 11 million devices…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-09-24

Investigating Infrastructure and Tactics of Phishing-as-a-Service Platform Sniper Dz A generative artificial intelligence malware used in phishing attacks AI Adoption Set to Unravel Years of Cyber Resilience EFF to Federal Trial Court: Section 230’s Little-Known Third Immunity for User-Empowerment Tools…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-09-23

Inside SnipBot: The Latest RomCom Malware Variant How to prepare a system security plan, with template ​​Securing our future: September 2024 progress update on Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative (SFI) 100 million+ US citizens have records leaked by background check service…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-09-22

Hackers Claim Second Dell Data Breach in One Week Security Flaw in Google Cloud Document AI Could Expose Sensitive Data, Experts Warn Global Taskforce Dismantles Encrypted Criminal Platform ‘Ghost,’ Leading to 51 Arrests Tor Project Assures Users It’ Safe Amid…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-09-21

‘Harvest now, decrypt later’: Why hackers are waiting for quantum computing Cloudflare Outage Disrupts Website Access in Multiple Regions, Affecting Global Users Understanding the critical role of resilience in defending against ransomware Technology Governance Needs A Rethink on Prioritizing Resilience…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-09-20

Tor Project responded to claims that law enforcement can de-anonymize Tor users USENIX NSDI ’24 – Revisiting Congestion Control for Lossless Ethernet How Asset Discovery Tools Work Seattle Port Suffers Data Breach, Rhysida Ransomware Suspected Ukraine Bans Telegram Messenger App…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-09-19

The time I almost got scammed from my college email Ivanti warns of a new actively exploited Cloud Services Appliance (CSA) flaw HuntStand – 2,795,947 breached accounts Iran’s cyber-goons emailed stolen Trump info to Team Biden – which ignored them…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-09-18

Gleaming Pisces Poisoned Python Packages Campaign Delivers PondRAT Linux and MacOS Backdoors Fal.Con 2024: CrowdStrike unveils resilient-by-design framework to bolster global cybersecurity Deja blues… LockBit boasts once again of ransoming IRS-authorized eFile.com FBI boss says China ‘burned down’ 260,000-device botnet…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-09-17

2024-09-16 – Snake KeyLogger (VIP Recovery) infection, SMTP exfil 2024-09-17 – Snake KeyLogger (VIP Recovery) infection, FTP exfil Discord launches end-to-end encrypted voice and video chats VMware patches over remote make-me-root holes in vCenter Server, Cloud Foundation AI and Technical…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-09-16

Elon Musk Is a National Security Risk US government expands sanctions against spyware maker Intellexa CISA Releases Plan to Align Operational Cybersecurity Priorities for Federal Agencies The empire of C++ strikes back with Safe C++ blueprint NordPass Review (2024): Is…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-09-15

USENIX Security ’23 – Multiview: Finding Blind Spots in Access-Deny Issues Diagnosis Fortifying The Digital Frontier: Everyday Habits That Shape Your Company’s Cybersecurity Posture YARA-X’s Dump Command, (Sun, Sep 15th) Port of Seattle shares ransomware attack details Ford’s Latest Patent:…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-09-14

CosmicBeetle joins the ranks of RansomHub affiliates – Week in security with Tony Anscombe USENIX Security ’23 – On the Feasibility of Malware Unpacking via Hardware-assisted Loop Profiling RansomHub Ransomware: Exploiting Trusted Tools to Evade Detection U.S. CISA adds Ivanti…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-09-13

Antivirus vs. Anti-Malware: Which One Do I Need? Microsoft’s Windows Agent Arena: Teaching AI assistants to navigate your PC Friday Squid Blogging: Squid as a Legislative Negotiating Tactic Apple Suddenly Drops NSO Group Spyware Lawsuit Setting Up Secure Data Lakes…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-09-12

FBI and CISA Release Joint PSA, Just So You Know: False Claims of Hacked Voter Information Likely Intended to Sow Distrust of U.S. Elections Fortinet Confirms Limited Data Breach After Hacker Leaks 440 GB of Data Mastercard to acquire Recorded…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-09-11

10 Countries With the Fastest Internet in the World [2024] 2024-09-11 – Data dump: Remcos RAT and XLoader (Formbook) Optimizing Data Management for AI Success: Industry Insights and Best Practices Cybersecurity Hiring: How to Overcome Talent Shortages and Skills Gaps…

IT Security News Daily Summary 2024-09-10

Are you having the right conversations about online safety with your kids? Patch Tuesday for September 2024: Microsoft Catches Four Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Was your Social Security number leaked to the dark web? Here’s how to find out Ivanti Releases Security…