July 2024

Summer travel plans? Don’t get scammed while you’re away 2024-07-19 at 19:16 By This SecOps “Summer Survival Kit” can provide security professionals with peace of mind during vacations.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Cyber criminals quickly exploit CrowdStrike chaos 2024-07-19 at 18:31 By Jessica Lyons Who loves a global outage? Phishers, fraudsters and all other manner of creeps Well that was fast. Criminals didn’t waste any time taking advantage of the CrowdStrike-Microsoft chaos and quickly got to work phishing organizations and spinning up malicious domains purporting to be

Life, interrupted: How CrowdStrike’s patch failure is messing up the world 2024-07-19 at 18:01 By Brandon Vigliarolo Oh, was it supposed to be Y2K24? Today is one of those days that will go down in history as an unmitigated IT disaster, with CrowdStrike responsible for taking systems down all over the globe. We know airports,

Trustwave Rapid Response: CrowdStrike Falcon Outage Update 2024-07-19 at 17:47 By Trustwave is proactively assessing and monitoring our clients who may have been impacted by CrowdStrike’s recently rolled-out update for its Windows users. The critical issue identified with CrowdStrike Falcon may result in a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) on Windows systems, affecting systems worldwide

Using AWS Secrets Manager and Lambda Function to Store, Rotate and Secure Keys 2024-07-19 at 17:47 By Sally Gebreananeya When working with Amazon Web Services (AWS), we often find that various AWS services need to store and manage secrets. AWS Secrets Manager is the go-to solution for this. It’s a centralized service designed to help

Facebook Malvertising Epidemic – Unraveling a Persistent Threat: SYS01 2024-07-19 at 17:47 By The Trustwave SpiderLabs Threat Intelligence team’s ongoing study into how threat actors use Facebook for malicious activity has uncovered a new version of the SYS01 stealer. This stealer is designed to take over Facebook accounts, steal credential information from affected users’ browsers, and then

Angry admins share the CrowdStrike outage experience 2024-07-19 at 17:16 By Richard Speed CrowdStrike? More like Clownstrike! Amirite? IT administrators are struggling to deal with the ongoing fallout from the faulty CrowdStrike update. One spoke to The Register to share what it is like at the coalface.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

Faulty CrowdStrike Update Crashes Windows Systems, Impacting Businesses Worldwide 2024-07-19 at 17:02 By Businesses across the world have been hit by widespread disruptions to their Windows workstations stemming from a faulty update pushed out by cybersecurity company CrowdStrike. “CrowdStrike is actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for

Two Russian Nationals Plead Guilty in LockBit Ransomware Attacks 2024-07-19 at 17:02 By Two Russian nationals have pleaded guilty in a U.S. court for their participation as affiliates in the LockBit ransomware scheme and helping facilitate ransomware attacks across the world. The defendants include Ruslan Magomedovich Astamirov, 21, of Chechen Republic, and Mikhail Vasiliev, 34,

Google to kill off URL shortener once and for all 2024-07-19 at 16:46 By Richard Speed Links shortened with goo.gl will stop working in 2025 Google will soon make its own contribution to the problem of link rot by shutting down the Google URL Shortener service in 2025.… This article is an excerpt from The

Azure VMs ruined by CrowdStrike patchpocalypse? Microsoft has recovery tips 2024-07-19 at 16:02 By Brandon Vigliarolo Have you tried turning it off and on again, like, a bunch? Did the CrowdStrike patchpocalypse knock your Azure VMs into a BSOD boot loop? If so, Microsoft has some tips to get them back online.… This article is

Second NHS IT system confirmed to be affected by CrowdStrike issues 2024-07-19 at 16:02 By Connor Jones Cancer treatments are in jeopardy across multiple healthcare facilities A UK hospital is battling what it is calling a critical incident as the ongoing global IT outage caused by a CrowdStrike update is impacting its Varian system.… This

Workplace compliance considerations for California Senate Bill 553 2024-07-19 at 15:16 By For companies that must adhere to the requirements of California Senate Bill 553, several critical aspects must be considered when developing a workplace violence prevention plan.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

UK comms watchdog banning inflation-linked mid-contract price rises 2024-07-19 at 14:31 By Richard Speed But only for new mobile and broadband contracts, and only from January 2025 UK communications regulator Ofcom has banned mid-contract price rises linked to inflation.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Safeguard Personal and Corporate Identities with Identity Intelligence 2024-07-19 at 14:31 By Learn about critical threats that can impact your organization and the bad actors behind them from Cybersixgill’s threat experts. Each story shines a light on underground activities, the threat actors involved, and why you should care, along with what you can do to