Cyber Defense Advisors

Month: October 2022

Alarming attacks on Internet of Medical Things (IoMT)

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. The impact of ransomware attacks on healthcare is as alarming as it is under-addressed.  The United States healthcare system alone faces an annual burden of nearly $21 billion due to these attacks. It pays well over $100 million in ransoms, and is beginning to acknowledge the tragic realities of impacted […]

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Digital Natives Are Undermining Corporate Security – Report

EY finds younger workers are prone to engage in risky behavior

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Software Supply Chain Attacks Soar 742% in Three Years

Sonatype reveals scale of threats to open source ecosystem

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  • October 19, 2022

CISA Warns of Critical Flaws Affecting Industrial Appliances from Advantech and Hitachi

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday released two Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories pertaining to severe flaws in Advantech R-SeeNet and Hitachi Energy APM Edge appliances. This consists of three weaknesses in the R-SeeNet monitoring solution, successful exploitation of which “could result in an unauthorized attacker remotely deleting files on the

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Deadbolt Ransomware Extorts Vendors and Customers

New report provides in-depth look at novel NAS-based threat

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Toyota Data Breach Exposes Customer Data – What You Can Do to Protect Yourself

Automobile manufacturer Toyota recently announced a data breach that may have exposed the emails of up to 300,000 customers for a period of nearly five years.  Toyota says the breach is the result of a subcontractor posting source code for Toyota’s “T-Connect” app on the software development platform GitHub in December 2017. This code included […]

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  • October 19, 2022

How Card Skimming Disproportionally Affects Those Most In Need

When people banking in the United States lose money because their payment card got skimmed at an ATM, gas pump or grocery store checkout terminal, they may face hassles or delays in recovering any lost funds, but they are almost always made whole by their financial institution. Yet, one class of Americans — those receiving […]

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Qatar Spyware

Everyone visiting Qatar for the World Cup needs to install spyware on their phone. Everyone travelling to Qatar during the football World Cup will be asked to download two apps called Ehteraz and Hayya. Briefly, Ehteraz is an covid-19 tracking app, while Hayya is an official World Cup app used to keep track of match […]

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  • October 19, 2022

GitGuardian adds IaC scanning to code security platform to protect SDLC

GitGuardian has added infrastructure-as-code (IaC) scanning to its code security platform to enhance the security of software development. The firm said the new feature will help security and development teams write, maintain, and run secure code, protecting the software development lifecycle (SDLC) against risks like tampering, code leakage and hardcoded credentials. The release reflects a […]

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