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Microsoft to Pay $20 Million Penalty for Illegally Collecting Kids’ Data on Xbox 07/06/2023 at 16:47 By Microsoft has agreed to pay a penalty of $20 million to settle U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charges that the company illegally collected and retained the data of children who signed up to use its Xbox video game […]

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Mitigating workplace violence through duty of care 07/06/2023 at 16:19 By Each year, more than 2 million people in the United States alone fall victim to some sort of workplace violence, according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React

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Winning the Mind Game: The Role of the Ransomware Negotiator 07/06/2023 at 14:31 By Get exclusive insights from a real ransomware negotiator who shares authentic stories from network hostage situations and how he managed them. The Ransomware Industry Ransomware is an industry. As such, it has its own business logic: organizations pay money, in crypto-currency,

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New PowerDrop Malware Targeting U.S. Aerospace Industry 07/06/2023 at 07:52 By An unknown threat actor has been observed targeting the U.S. aerospace industry with a new PowerShell-based malware called PowerDrop. “PowerDrop uses advanced techniques to evade detection such as deception, encoding, and encryption,” according to Adlumin, which found the malware implanted in an unnamed domestic aerospace defense

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Prioritizing workplace safety for healthcare professionals 07/06/2023 at 07:08 By How the U.S. government is taking steps to protect employees in the healthcare sector. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Product spotlight on mobile and touchless security 07/06/2023 at 07:08 By Security magazine highlights mobile and touchless security solutions for access control and identity management. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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CISA releases joint guide to securing remote access software 06/06/2023 at 23:02 By CISA has released a joint guide that informs organizations how to detect and defend against malicious actors abusing remote access software. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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New vulnerabilities published in 2022 increased 25% 06/06/2023 at 23:02 By A report from Skybox Security found a 25% increase in new vulnerabilities published within 2022, a year-over-year rise the biggest seen since 2017. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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57% of financial organizations use multiple cloud service providers 06/06/2023 at 22:16 By Cloud adoption continues to increase within the financial services sector with the majority reporting that they’re using some form of cloud computing. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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New Malware Campaign Leveraging Satacom Downloader to Steal Cryptocurrency 06/06/2023 at 22:07 By A recent malware campaign has been found to leverage Satacom downloader as a conduit to deploy stealthy malware capable of siphoning cryptocurrency using a rogue extension for Chromium-based browsers. “The main purpose of the malware that is dropped by the Satacom downloader is to

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Federal Cybersecurity Posture is Improving, but Additional Work Remains 06/06/2023 at 20:54 By Former Texas Congressman William “Mac” Thornberry and Trustwave Government Services President Bill Rucker recently sat down to discuss several pressing issues impacting the federal government’s cybersecurity preparedness, the impact the Russia-Ukraine War has had on cyber, and what remains to be done

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Security leaders implement third-party security measures 06/06/2023 at 20:54 By IT professionals and navigating the threat landscape was analyzed in a recent report by Ironscales and Enterprise Security Group (ESG). This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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What security leaders can learn from Smashing Pumpkins hacker attack 06/06/2023 at 20:32 By While stealing music from a band might not be equal to obtaining and releasing customer personal information, there are still lessons to learn from this incident. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

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Over 60K Adware Apps Posing as Cracked Versions of Popular Apps Target Android Devices 06/06/2023 at 17:17 By Thousands of adware apps for Android have been found to masquerade as cracks or modded versions of popular apps to redirect users to serve unwanted ads to users as part of a campaign ongoing since October 2022.

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Why authentication is good Medicine for today’s data breach epidemic 06/06/2023 at 16:17 By Even though the data breach threat has been present for decades, many organizations still don’t have a great handle on how to prevent it. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to

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5 Reasons Why IT Security Tools Don’t Work For OT 06/06/2023 at 15:31 By Attacks on critical infrastructure and other OT systems are on the rise as digital transformation and OT/IT convergencecontinue to accelerate. Water treatment facilities, energy providers, factories, and chemical plants — the infrastructure that undergirds our daily lives could all be at

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Zero-Day Alert: Google Issues Patch for New Chrome Vulnerability – Update Now! 06/06/2023 at 13:32 By Google on Monday released security updates to patch a high-severity flaw in its Chrome web browser that it said is being actively exploited in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2023-3079, the vulnerability has been described as a type confusion bug in

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Cyclops Ransomware Gang Offers Go-Based Info Stealer to Cybercriminals 06/06/2023 at 10:52 By Threat actors associated with the Cyclops ransomware have been observed offering an information stealer malware that’s designed to capture sensitive data from infected hosts. “The threat actor behind this [ransomware-as-a-service] promotes its offering on forums,” Uptycs said in a new report. “There it requests a share

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Chinese PostalFurious Gang Strikes UAE Users with Sneaky SMS Phishing Scheme 06/06/2023 at 09:09 By A Chinese-speaking phishing gang dubbed PostalFurious has been linked to a new SMS campaign that’s targeting users in the U.A.E. by masquerading as postal services and toll operators, per Group-IB. The fraudulent scheme entails sending users bogus text messages asking them to

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Zyxel Firewalls Under Attack! Urgent Patching Required 06/06/2023 at 07:32 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday placed two recently disclosed flaws in Zyxel firewalls to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2023-33009 and CVE-2023-33010, are buffer overflow vulnerabilities that could enable an unauthenticated

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