Attackers are logging in instead of breaking in
Cyberattackers leveraged more than 500 unique tools and tactics in 2022, according to Sophos. The data, analyzed from more than 150 Sophos Incident Response (IR) cases, identified more than 500 unique tools and techniques, including 118 “Living off.....»»
Strategies to cultivate collaboration between NetOps and SecOps
In this Help Net Security interview, Debby Briggs, CISO at Netscout, discusses breaking down silos between NetOps and SecOps. Practical steps include scheduling strategy meetings, understanding communication preferences, and fostering team collaborat.....»»
Palo Alto Networks firewalls under attack, hotfixes incoming! (CVE-2024-3400)
Attackers are exploiting a command injection vulnerability (CVE-2024-3400) affecting Palo Alto Networks’ firewalls, the company has warned, and urged customers to implement temporary mitigations and get in touch to check whether their devices have.....»»
SpaceX all set for a record-breaking rocket launch on Friday
SpaceX has set lots of spaceflight records in its 22-year history, and on Friday one of its rockets is expected to set another one......»»
A landslide forced me from my home—and I experienced our failure to deal with climate change at first hand
One stormy evening in February 2024, I heard the sickening sound of trees breaking just beyond my garden in the town of Hastings on England's south coast. Heading outside to investigate, I soon found cracks opening up in the ground near our property'.....»»
X automatically changed "Twitter" to "X" in users" posts, breaking legit URLs
Elon Musk's social media platform is changing references to "Twitter .com" in user's post to "X .com" without their permission. It might be easy to forget at times, but technically, Twitter is no more. Elon Musk changed the name of the com.....»»
Ransomware group maturity should influence ransom payment decision
Your organization has been hit by ransomware and a decision has to be made on whether or not to make the ransom payment to get your data decrypted, deleted from attackers’ servers, and/or not leaked online. The decision will depend on a variety.....»»
New covert SharePoint data exfiltration techniques revealed
Varonis Threat Labs researchers have uncovered two techniques attackers can use can use for covert data and file exfiltration from companies’ SharePoint server. “These techniques can bypass the detection and enforcement policies of tradit.....»»
LG smart TVs may be taken over by remote attackers
Bitdefender researchers have uncovered four vulnerabilities in webOS, the operating system running on LG smart TVs, which may offer attackers unrestricted (root) access to the devices. “Although the vulnerable service is intended for LAN access.....»»
How exposure management elevates cyber resilience
Attackers are adept at identifying and exploiting the most cost-effective methods of compromise, highlighting the critical need for organizations to implement asset identification and understand their assets’ security posture in relation to the.....»»
Elon Musk just gave another Mars speech—this time the vision seems tangible
"These are unthinkable numbers, but we’re not breaking any physics to achieve this." Enlarge / SpaceX will continue to iterate on Starship. (credit: SpaceX) Elon Musk has been talking publicly about his sweeping vision.....»»
Surface emitting semiconductor laser achieves efficiency breakthrough
Since its inception, the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of edge-emitting laser (EEL) technology has been continuously breaking records, achieving a historically high efficiency of 85% at -50°C in 2006. Following this, in 2007, EEL also reached a.....»»
A “cascade” of errors let Chinese hackers into US government inboxes
Microsoft still doesn’t known how Storm-0558 attackers managed to steal the Microsoft Services Account cryptographic key they used to forge authentication tokens needed to access email accounts belonging to US government officials. “The s.....»»
How Google plans to make stolen session cookies worthless for attackers
Google is working on a new security feature for Chrome called Device Bound Session Credentials (DBSC), meant to prevent attackers from using stolen session cookies to gain access user accounts. Session (i.e., authentication) cookies are stored by bro.....»»
Ocean forests: How "floating" mangroves could provide a broad range of ecological and social benefits
The 2022 report "The State of the World's Mangroves" estimates that since 1996, 5,245 square kilometers of mangroves have been lost due to human activities such as agriculture, logging, tourism development, coastal aquaculture and climate change, and.....»»
Cloud Active Defense: Open-source cloud protection
Cloud Active Defense is an open-source solution that integrates decoys into cloud infrastructure. It creates a dilemma for attackers: risk attacking and being detected immediately, or avoid the traps and reduce their effectiveness. Anyone, including.....»»
Researchers reveal evidence of transition from ergodic toward ergodic breaking dynamics
A collaborative research team has reported experimental evidence of a transition from ergodic toward ergodic breaking dynamics in driven-dissipative Rydberg atomic gases. The results were published in Science Advances......»»
Record low prices hit Apple"s M3 MacBook Pro 14-inch, now on sale from $1,399
B&H has dropped MacBook Pro prices further as March comes to a close. Pick up an M3 MacBook Pro with 16GB RAM for just $1,549 — or opt for the M3 Pro MacBook Pro 14-inch for $1,699. Both are record-breaking deals.Kicking off the sale is a best-sell.....»»
Zero-day exploitation surged in 2023, Google finds
2023 saw attackers increasingly focusing on the discovery and exploitation of zero-day vulnerabilities in third-party libraries (libvpx, ImagelO) and drivers (Mali GPU, Qualcomm Adreno GPU), as they can affect multiple products and effectively offer.....»»
NHS Scotland confirms ransomware attackers leaked patients’ data
NHS Dumfries and Galloway (part of NHS Scotland) has confirmed that a “recognised ransomware group” was able to “access a significant amount of data including patient and staff-identifiable information,” and has published R.....»»
Beware of fake CleanMyMac installers that will infect your Mac
Cybersecurity experts recently uncovered a sophisticated scheme where attackers disguise malware as CleanMyMac to steal Mac users' data.MacPaw team finds malware disguised as CleanMyMacMacPaw, the creator of CleanMyMac and other utilities, has a cybe.....»»