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The Importance of Managing Your Data Security Posture

By The Hacker News
Data security is reinventing itself. As new data security posture management solutions come to market, organizations are increasingly recognizing the opportunity to provide evidence-based security that proves how their data is being protected. But what exactly is data security posture, and how do you manage it?  Data security posture management (DSPM) became mainstream following the publication

S3 Ep137: 16th century crypto skullduggery

By Paul Ducklin
Lots to learn, clearly explained in plain English... listen now! (Full transcript inside.)

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Serious Security: That KeePass “master password crack”, and what we can learn from it

By Paul Ducklin
Here, in an admittedly discursive nutshell, is the fascinating story of CVE-2023-32784. (Short version: Don't panic.)

Beware of Ghost Sites: Silent Threat Lurking in Your Salesforce Communities

By Ravie Lakshmanan
Improperly deactivated and abandoned Salesforce Sites and Communities (aka Experience Cloud) could pose severe risks to organizations, leading to unauthorized access to sensitive data. Data security firm Varonis dubbed the abandoned, unprotected, and unmonitored resources “ghost sites.” “When these Communities are no longer needed, though, they are often set aside but not deactivated,” Varonis

Serious Security: Verification is vital – examining an OAUTH login bug

By Paul Ducklin
What good is a popup asking for your approval if an attacker can bypass it simply by suppressing it?

E.U. Regulators Hit Meta with Record $1.3 Billion Fine for Data Transfer Violations

By Ravie Lakshmanan
Facebook's parent company Meta has been fined a record $1.3 billion by European Union data protection regulators for transferring the personal data of users in the region to the U.S. In a binding decision taken by the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), the social media giant has been ordered to bring its data transfers into compliance with the GDPR and delete unlawfully stored and processed

Phone scamming kingpin gets 13 years for running “iSpoof” service

By Naked Security writer
Site marketing video promised total anonymity, but that was a lie. 170 arrested already. Potentially 1000s more to follow.

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Why Honeytokens Are the Future of Intrusion Detection

By The Hacker News
A few weeks ago, the 32nd edition of RSA, one of the world's largest cybersecurity conferences, wrapped up in San Francisco. Among the highlights, Kevin Mandia, CEO of Mandiant at Google Cloud, presented a retrospective on the state of cybersecurity. During his keynote, Mandia stated: "There are clear steps organizations can take beyond common safeguards and security tools to strengthen their

MSI Data Breach: Private Code Signing Keys Leaked on the Dark Web

By Ravie Lakshmanan
The threat actors behind the ransomware attack on Taiwanese PC maker MSI last month have leaked the company's private code signing keys on their dark website. "Confirmed, Intel OEM private key leaked, causing an impact on the entire ecosystem," Alex Matrosov, founder and CEO of firmware security firm Binarly, said in a tweet over the weekend. "It appears that Intel Boot Guard may not be

Western Digital Confirms Customer Data Stolen by Hackers in March Breach

By Ravie Lakshmanan
Digital storage giant Western Digital confirmed that an "unauthorized third party" gained access to its systems and stole personal information belonging to the company's online store customers. "This information included customer names, billing and shipping addresses, email addresses and telephone numbers," the San Jose-based company said in a disclosure last week. "In addition, the database

ChatGPT is Back in Italy After Addressing Data Privacy Concerns

By Ravie Lakshmanan
OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has officially made a return to Italy after the company met the data protection authority's demands ahead of April 30, 2023, deadline. The development was first reported by the Associated Press. OpenAI's CEO, Sam Altman, tweeted, "we're excited ChatGPT is available in [Italy] again!" The reinstatement comes following Garante's decision to temporarily block 

ViperSoftX InfoStealer Adopts Sophisticated Techniques to Avoid Detection

By Ravie Lakshmanan
A significant number of victims in the consumer and enterprise sectors located across Australia, Japan, the U.S., and India have been affected by an evasive information-stealing malware called ViperSoftX. ViperSoftX was first documented by Fortinet in 2020, with cybersecurity company Avast detailing a campaign in November 2022 that leveraged the malware to distribute a malicious Google Chrome

S3 Ep131: Can you really have fun with FORTRAN?

By Paul Ducklin
Loop-the-loop in this week's episode. Entertaining, educational and all in plain English. Transcript inside.

ChatGPT's Data Protection Blind Spots and How Security Teams Can Solve Them

By The Hacker News
In the short time since their inception, ChatGPT and other generative AI platforms have rightfully gained the reputation of ultimate productivity boosters. However, the very same technology that enables rapid production of high-quality text on demand, can at the same time expose sensitive corporate data. A recent incident, in which Samsung software engineers pasted proprietary code into ChatGPT,

Ex-CEO of breached pyschotherapy clinic gets prison sentence for bad data security

By Paul Ducklin
Did the sentence fit the crime? Read the backstory, and then have your say in our comments! (You may post anonymously.)

FBI and FCC warn about “Juicejacking” – but just how useful is their advice?

By Paul Ducklin
USB charging stations - can you trust them? What are the real risks, and how can you keep your data safe on the road?

Vice Society Ransomware Using Stealthy PowerShell Tool for Data Exfiltration

By Ravie Lakshmanan
Threat actors associated with the Vice Society ransomware gang have been observed using a bespoke PowerShell-based tool to fly under the radar and automate the process of exfiltrating data from compromised networks. "Threat actors (TAs) using built-in data exfiltration methods like [living off the land binaries and scripts] negate the need to bring in external tools that might be flagged by

Kodi Confirms Data Breach: 400K User Records and Private Messages Stolen

By Ravie Lakshmanan
Open source media player software provider Kodi has confirmed a data breach after threat actors stole the company's MyBB forum database containing user data and private messages. What's more, the unknown threat actors attempted to sell the data dump comprising 400,635 Kodi users on the now-defunct BreachForums cybercrime marketplace. "MyBB admin logs show the account of a trusted but currently

Attention gamers! Motherboard maker MSI admits to breach, issues “rogue firmware” alert

By Paul Ducklin
Stealing private keys is like getting hold of a medieval monarch's personal signet ring... you get to put an official seal on treasonous material.

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