Google Releases Chrome Emergency Fix For Ninth Zero-Day This Year
The flaw relates to a type confusion bug in the V8 JavaScript engine
Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends
- December 5, 2022
When Being Attractive Gets Risky – How Does Your Attack Surface Look to an Attacker?
In the era of digitization and ever-changing business needs, the production environment has become a living organism. Multiple functions and teams within an organization can ultimately impact the way an attacker sees the organization’s assets, or in other words, the external attack surface. This dramatically increases the need to define an exposure management strategy. To […]
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- December 5, 2022
New BMC Supply Chain Vulnerabilities Affect Servers from Dozens of Manufacturers
Three different security flaws have been disclosed in American Megatrends (AMI) MegaRAC Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) software that could lead to remote code execution on vulnerable servers. “The impact of exploiting these vulnerabilities include remote control of compromised servers, remote deployment of malware, ransomware and firmware implants, and server physical damage (bricking),”
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsManufacturers Struggle to Manage Cyber-Threats from New Tech Deployments
42% of UK manufacturers have been a victim of cybercrime in the past 12 months, according to new research
Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends
- December 5, 2022
CAPTCHA
This is an actual CAPTCHA I was shown when trying to log into PayPal. As an actual human and not a bot, I had no idea how to answer. Is this a joke? (Seems not.) Is it a Magritte-like existential question? (It’s not a bicycle. It’s a drawing of a bicycle. Actually, it’s a photograph […]
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- December 5, 2022
Russian Courts Targeted by New CryWiper Data Wiper Malware Posing as Ransomware
A new data wiper malware called CryWiper has been found targeting Russian government agencies, including mayor’s offices and courts. “Although it disguises itself as a ransomware and extorts money from the victim for ‘decrypting’ data, [it] does not actually encrypt, but purposefully destroys data in the affected system,” Kaspersky researchers Fedor Sinitsyn and Janis Zinchenko said in a
Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends
- December 5, 2022
Rolling Up Our Sleeves: Employee Volunteers Empowered to Give Back
For these Cisconians, hands-on is the way to go when it comes to giving back. Using Cisco’s Time2Give benefit that provides 10 paid days to volunteer each year, team members rolled up their sleeves to build homes, cuddle and care for animals, distribute food and more. If you also value giving back, check out our […]
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsMicrosoft: Beware Russian Winter Cyber-Offensive
Ukraine’s allies may be in the firing line for destructive attacks
Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends
- December 5, 2022
When blaming the user for a security breach is unfair – or just wrong
In his career in IT security leadership, Aaron de Montmorency has seen a lot — an employee phished on their first day by someone impersonating the CEO, an HR department head asked to change the company’s direct deposit information by a bogus CFO, not to mention multichannel criminal engagement with threat actors attacking from social […]
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