Updated 01/29/20 with statement from Zoom spokesperson Remote conferencing services provider Zoom patched a vulnerability that could have allowed an attacker to find and join active meetings. Check Point explained that the issue stemmed from the way in which Zoom secured certain meetings: If you use Zoom, you may already know that Zoom Meeting...

Each year on January 28, the United States, Canada, Israel and 47 European countries observe Data Privacy Day. The purpose of Data Privacy Day is to inspire dialogue on the importance of online privacy. These discussions also seek to inspire individuals and businesses to take action in an effort to respect privacy, safeguard data and enable trust....

Trust, respect, understanding. These are all two-way relationships that must be earned over time. Whilst someone being hired in a senior position will likely already have a certain level of each, part of your job is to continuously cultivate all three of these elements with colleagues no matter your grade. When working within a cybersecurity...

In a previous article, we discussed what the NIS Directive is. The European Union developed the Directive in response to the emerging cyber threats to critical infrastructure and the impact cyber-attacks have on society and the European digital market. The NIS Directive sets three primary objectives: to improve the national information security...

A new report into the state of ransomware at the tail end of 2019 has revealed that things aren't getting any better. In Q4 of 2019, according to the new study published by security firm Coveware, the average ransom payment more than doubled – reaching $84,116, up from $41,198 in Q3 of 2019. Coveware's report says that this reflects how some...

The Shlayer trojan accounted for approximately 30 percent of all of Kaspersky Lab's malware detections for the macOS platform in 2019. Kaspersky Lab revealed on Securelist that Shlayer has been the most common threat to target its macOS userbase for the past two years. During that time, one in 10 of the security firm's macOS solutions encountered...

Digital attacks are a top concern for Industrial Control System (ICS) security professionals. In a survey conducted by Dimensional Research, 88 percent of these personnel told Tripwire that they were concerned about the threat of a digital attack. An even greater percentage (93 percent) attributed their concerns to the possibility of an attack...

The United Parcel Service (UPS) revealed that a phishing incident might have exposed the information of some of its customers. In its "Notice of Data Breach" letter, UPS disclosed that an unauthorized person had used a phishing attack to gain access to store email accounts at some of its store...

As a security consultant, I’m not going into an environment to design and build an organization’s network from the ground up in most situations. For the majority of the time, I’m working with legacy environments where some old technologies might be phasing out and newer ones joining the mix of solutions. In the case of one environment I went to, for...

Requesting that a SaaS company answer a Vendor Security request has become a regular thing for companies who work in the cloud. But have you thought about how the reverse works, that is, when your customer has a VSA process focusing on you? The Vendor Security Assessment, or VSA, is the means by which your infosec team confirms that a cloud vendor,...

Health Quest announced that it's begun notifying patients whose information might have been exposed in a phishing incident. According to its website notice, Health Quest first learned of the incident in July 2018 when several employees fell for a phishing attack and thereby inadvertently disclosed...

A new survey found that regulators have thus far imposed $126 million worth of fines for data breaches and other GDPR infringements. According to DLA Piper's GDPR Data Breach Survey, data protection regulators imposed €114 million (about US$126 million / £97 million) in GDPR-related fines between May 25, 2018 and January 27, 2020. The international...

With the 2010s now over, the infosec industry is now fully invested in 2020 and beyond. The 2020s will no doubt present their fair share of challenging digital security threats. But they will also enable security professionals to discuss shared difficulties at conferences and summits. To help promote these collaborative events, we at The State of...

The NIS Directive is the first EU horizontal legislation addressing cybersecurity challenges. It is a true game-changer for cybersecurity resilience and cooperation in Europe. As we noted in a previous blog post, the Directive has three main objectives: Improving national cybersecurity capabilities Building cooperation at EU level Promoting a...

The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that they have seized the domain name for weleakinfo.com. On January 16, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia announced that the FBI and DOJ had executed a warrant to seize the domain of weleakinfo.com in cooperation with law enforcement...

Canadian online pharmacy PlanetDrugsDirect.com has contacted customers warning them that their data might have been exposed in what they euphemistically describe as a "data security incident". In an email seen by Bleeping Computer, the website warned that exposed personal data could include the following: Customer names Postal addresses Email...

Security researchers observed that Ako ransomware is using malicious spam attachments to go after organizations' networks. On January 14, AppRiver Senior Cybersecurity Analyst David Pickett contacted Bleeping Computer and told the computer self-help site that his company had observed Ako being distributed via spam email. Using subject lines such as ...

The cloud has changed how we use and consume IT services. Where data resides along with how it is transferred, stored and processed has fundamentally changed and with-it new risk management challenges. Let's talk about some of those challenges. First and foremost, the cat is out of the bag. We're not going back to the data center, and any resistance...