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Ransomware Surge & Living-Off-the-Land Tactics Remain Big Threats
Jai Vijayan, Contributing WriterNews
Group-IB's and Rapid7's separate analysis of attack activity in recent months shows threat actors are making life harder for enterprise organizations in a variety of ways.
By Jai Vijayan Contributing Writer, 11/19/2019
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Attacker Mistake Botches Cyborg Ransomware Campaign
Kelly Sheridan, Staff Editor, Dark ReadingNews
Cybercriminals attempted to install Cyborg ransomware on target machines by deceiving victims with a fraudulent Windows update.
By Kelly Sheridan Staff Editor, Dark Reading, 11/19/2019
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DDoS Attacks Up Sharply in Third Quarter of 2019
Dark Reading Staff, Quick Hits
DDoS attacks of all sorts were up by triple-digit percentages, with smaller volume attacks growing most rapidly.
By Dark Reading Staff , 11/19/2019
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TPM-Fail: What It Means & What to Do About It
Ari Singer, CTO at TrustPhiCommentary
Trusted Platform Modules are well-suited to a wide range of applications, but for the strongest security, architect them into "defense-in-depth" designs.
By Ari Singer CTO at TrustPhi, 11/19/2019
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Most Companies Lag Behind '1-10-60' Benchmark for Breach Response
Robert Lemos, Contributing WriterNews
Average company needs 162 hours to detect, triage, and contain a breach, according to a new CrowdStrike survey.
By Robert Lemos Contributing Writer, 11/19/2019
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I 'Hacked' My Accounts Using My Mobile Number: Here's What I Learned
Nicole Sette, Director in the Cyber Risk practice of Kroll, a division of Duff & PhelpsCommentary
A feature that's supposed to make your account more secure -- adding a cellphone number -- has become a vector of attack in SIM-swapping incidents. Here's how it's done and how you can protect yourself.
By Nicole Sette Director in the Cyber Risk practice of Kroll, a division of Duff & Phelps, 11/19/2019
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Magecart Hits Macy's: Retailer Discloses Data Breach
Dark Reading Staff, Quick Hits
The retail giant discovered malicious code designed to capture customer data planted on its payment page.
By Dark Reading Staff , 11/19/2019
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If You Never Cared About Security ...
Beyond the Edge, Dark Reading
Oh, I used to feel that way. (Until a BEC attack.)
By Beyond the Edge Dark Reading, 11/19/2019
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A Security Strategy That Centers on Humans, Not Bugs
Andrea Little Limbago, Chief Social Scientist, VirtruCommentary
The industry's fixation on complex exploits has come at the expense of making fundamentals easy and intuitive for end users.
By Andrea Little Limbago Chief Social Scientist, Virtru, 11/19/2019
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Americans Fed Up with Lack of Data Privacy
Robert Lemos, Contributing WriterNews
Eight out of every 10 US adults are worried over their inability to control how data about them is used, a new Pew Research survey shows.
By Robert Lemos Contributing Writer, 11/18/2019
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Disney+ Credentials Land in Dark Web Hours After Service Launch
Dark Reading Staff, Quick Hits
The credentials, priced from free to $11 per account, appear to be due to victims' re-use of logins and passwords.
By Dark Reading Staff , 11/18/2019
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Windows Hello for Business Opens Door to New Attack Vectors
Kelly Sheridan, Staff Editor, Dark ReadingNews
Researchers exploring Windows Hello for Business found an Active Directory backdoor and other attack vectors that could lead to privilege escalation.
By Kelly Sheridan Staff Editor, Dark Reading, 11/18/2019
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GitHub Initiative Seeks to Secure Open Source Code
Jai Vijayan, Contributing WriterNews
New Security Lab will give researchers, developers, code maintainers, and organizations a way to coordinate efforts on addressing vulnerabilities.
By Jai Vijayan Contributing Writer, 11/18/2019
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How Medical Device Vendors Hold Healthcare Security for Ransom
Curtis Franklin Jr., Senior Editor at Dark Reading
While being pummeled by ransomware attacks, healthcare centers also face growing IoT-related threats. Here's how they manage security amid a complex set of risks.
By Curtis Franklin Jr. Senior Editor at Dark Reading, 11/18/2019
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Human Nature vs. AI: A False Dichotomy?
John McClurg, Sr. VP & CISO, BlackBerryCommentary
How the helping hand of artificial intelligence allows security teams to remain human while protecting themselves from their own humanity being used against them.
By John McClurg Sr. VP & CISO, BlackBerry, 11/18/2019
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Facebook Discloses WhatsApp MP4 Video Vulnerability
Dark Reading Staff, Quick Hits
A stack-based buffer overflow bug can be exploited by sending a specially crafted video file to a WhatsApp user.
By Dark Reading Staff , 11/18/2019
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Quantum Computing Breakthrough Accelerates the Need for Future-Proofed PKI
Kevin von Keyserling & JD Kilgallin, Co-Founder & Chief Strategy officer; Senior Integration Engineer at KeyfactorCommentary
Public key infrastructure is a foundational security tool that has evolved to become a critical base for future advancements. Today's generation of PKI can be coupled with quantum-resistant algorithms to extend the lifespan of digital certificates for decades.
By Kevin von Keyserling & JD Kilgallin Co-Founder & Chief Strategy officer; Senior Integration Engineer at Keyfactor, 11/18/2019
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13 Security Pros Share Their Most Valuable Experiences
Kelly Sheridan, Staff Editor, Dark Reading
From serving as an artillery Marine to working a help desk, infosec practitioners pinpoint experiences that had the greatest influence on their careers.
By Kelly Sheridan Staff Editor, Dark Reading, 11/18/2019
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New: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Security at the Edge But Were Afraid to Ask
Akamai Staff,
The secure perimeter as we know it is dissolving. So how do you protect your crown jewels when the castle has no walls?
By Akamai Staff , 11/18/2019
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Illegal Booter Connected with DDoSes Sentenced to Prison, Fine
Dark Reading Staff, Quick Hits
The Illinois-based man operated a criminal service that launched millions of DDoS attacks and brought in hundreds of thousands of dollars.
By Dark Reading Staff , 11/15/2019
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CVE-2011-3349
PUBLISHED: 2019-11-19
lightdm before 0.9.6 writes in .dmrc and Xauthority files using root permissions while the files are in user controlled folders. A local user can overwrite root-owned files via a symlink, which can allow possible privilege escalation.
CVE-2019-10080
PUBLISHED: 2019-11-19
The XMLFileLookupService in NiFi versions 1.3.0 to 1.9.2 allowed trusted users to inadvertently configure a potentially malicious XML file. The XML file has the ability to make external calls to services (via XXE) and reveal information such as the versions of Java, Jersey, and Apache that the NiFI ...
CVE-2019-10083
PUBLISHED: 2019-11-19
When updating a Process Group via the API in NiFi versions 1.3.0 to 1.9.2, the response to the request includes all of its contents (at the top most level, not recursively). The response included details about processors and controller services which the user may not have had read access to.
CVE-2019-12421
PUBLISHED: 2019-11-19
When using an authentication mechanism other than PKI, when the user clicks Log Out in NiFi versions 1.0.0 to 1.9.2, NiFi invalidates the authentication token on the client side but not on the server side. This permits the user's client-side token to be used for up to 12 hours after logging out to m...
CVE-2019-19126
PUBLISHED: 2019-11-19
On the x86-64 architecture, the GNU C Library (aka glibc) before 2.31 fails to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC environment variable during program execution after a security transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR ...
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Rethinking Enterprise Data Defense
Frustrated with recurring intrusions and breaches, cybersecurity professionals are questioning some of the industry’s conventional wisdom. Here’s a look at what they’re thinking about.
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