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Extra, Extra, VERT Reads All About It: Cybersecurity News for the Week of January 31, 2022

All of us at Tripwire’s Vulnerability Exposure and Research Team (VERT) are constantly looking out for interesting stories and developments in the infosec world. Here’s what cybersecurity news stood out to us during the week of January 31, 2022. We’ve also included the comments from a few folks here at Tripwire VERT. Update Force-Pushed to Protect...
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Your Cell Phone and Your Identity: Keeping Your PII Safe

Have you considered how often your phone number has been shared? Most of us give out our cell phone numbers all the time – to friends, acquaintances, colleagues, and even big, monolithic, impersonal companies. We may even print them on business cards or list them on public forums. A cell phone is no longer just a way to contact someone to engage in...
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Privacy in 2021: A Year Worth Reviewing

With two new U.S. State privacy laws, new Standard Contractual Clauses out of the EU, more GDPR-style laws passed around the globe, and record data protection fines, 2021 provided plenty of fodder for an end-of-year review. U.S. Domestic: A Summary Despite a growing consensus on the need for comprehensive privacy in the United States, lawmakers...
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BlackCat ransomware - what you need to know

What is this BlackCat thing I've heard about? BlackCat (also known as ALPHV) is a relatively new ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation, which has been aggressively recruiting affiliates from other ransomware groups and targeting organisations worldwide. What makes BlackCat different from other ransomware-as-a-service providers? Like other...
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Tripwire Patch Priority Index for January 2022

Tripwire's January 2022 Patch Priority Index (PPI) brings together important vulnerabilities for Apache, Open Source Policy Kit, Adobe, and Microsoft. First on the patch priority list this month are patches for Apache Log4j2 vulnerabilities, most importantly for the Log4j2 "LogShell" remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228). This...
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Making Progress Securing Our Nation’s Water Supply

Water and wastewater treatment may not be at the top of most people’s list of discussion topics, but the more you think about it, the more clear it becomes that this particular subsegment of the utilities market is a vital part of our critical infrastructure. We rely on the ability to turn on the tap and get clean, safe water every day. And we’ve...
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Extra, Extra, VERT Reads All About It: Cybersecurity News for the Week of January 24, 2022

All of us at Tripwire’s Vulnerability Exposure and Research Team (VERT) are constantly looking out for interesting stories and developments in the infosec world. Here’s what cybersecurity news stood out to us during the week of January 24, 2022. We’ve also included the comments from a few folks here at Tripwire VERT. SonicWall Discloses Cause of...
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Cybersecurity and Drones: How to Address the Security Threats

The Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) industry has become a massive technological playground worldwide. Their extensive applications make UAS very popular for the public and the private sector. Armed forces, agricultural industry, law enforcement, meteorological agencies, medical services, environmental companies, and oil refineries are but a few out of...
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Dark Overlord collaborator imprisoned for trading stolen identities

A Canadian man has been handed a three year prison sentence after being found guilty of buying and selling over 1700 stolen identities on a dark web marketplace. 29-year-old Slava Dmitriev, who went by the online handle of "GoldenAce", bought and sold individuals' personal private information, including social security numbers, on the AlphaBay dark...
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What Data Privacy Day 2022 Means for Individuals

Data Privacy Day (DPD) is January 28. Sounds exciting, right? I'm sure you've got the pinata stuffed and the presents on the way. What is DPD about? It's all about me! We generally don't like to use this phrase. It's considered selfish and arrogant, leading others to dislike us. But in the case of data privacy, it’s acceptable. Personally, I’m...
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Cybersecurity Laws – Get Ready Today to Save Some Money Tomorrow

It looks likely that the UK will join a growing number of nations promoting cybersecurity’s importance for businesses including the introduction of new laws. Amongst the proposals being considered are adding new powers to the UK Cyber Security Council that could significantly change the reporting requirements associated with security incidents. From...
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ICS Security: What It Is and Why It's a Challenge for Organizations

Industrial control systems (ICS) are specific kinds of assets and associated instrumentation that help to oversee industrial processes. According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, there are three common types of ICS. These are supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, which help organizations to control dispersed...
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Extra, Extra, VERT Reads All About It: Cybersecurity News for the Week of January 17, 2022

All of us at Tripwire’s Vulnerability Exposure and Research Team (VERT) are constantly looking out for interesting stories and developments in the infosec world. Here’s what cybersecurity news stood out to us during the week of January 17, 2022. We’ve also included the comments from a few folks here at Tripwire VERT. Root-Level RCE Vulnerability...
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ISO27001:2021 – A New Way of Working

It has been a long time coming! The upgrade to the international standard for information security management systems, ISO27001:2013, is here (almost). Hallelujah! If you're reading this article, then there's a reasonable assumption that you know what ISO27001 is and you're not going to be too worried about the back story. But let's all be clear...
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Kubernetes Incident Response: Building Your Strategy

Kubernetes is the popular container orchestration platform developed by Google to manage large-scale containerized applications. Kubernetes manages microservices applications over a distributed cluster of nodes. It is very resilient and supports scaling, rollback, zero downtime, and self-healing containers. The primary aim of Kubernetes is to mask...
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Jail for prolific romance fraudster who fleeced besotted lonely hearts

To his victims, he was "Tony Eden," a middle-aged white man looking for romance online while working overseas for a drilling company. In reality, he was a school caretaker named Osagie Aigbonohan. Originally from Lagos, Nigeria, he was part of a criminal gang with links to the notorious "Black Axe" group. Southwark Crown Court in London sentenced...