Whoever hacked the LA Times' interactive county murder map probably hoped to make a killing mining cryptocurrency - but swift action from a security researcher has put paid to their plans. Security researcher Troy Mursch, whose blog has focused on cryptomining threats in recent months, raised the alarm on Twitter, after discovering that an Amazon...

In these times of unabated data breaches, the typical Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) must feel like a moving target in a shooting gallery. It’s not a matter of whether an attack and possible breach will occur, it’s a matter of when. Being a CISO is a fascinating and important job. Often, though, it’s a thankless one. Unfortunately for...

Mobile online dating apps are popular among adults looking to find their ideal partner. According to the Pew Research Center, 15 percent of U.S. adults said they had used matchmaking sites in 2015. Following Valentine’s Day, many dating sites may offer promotions, coupons, and discounts to encourage new users to enroll, meaning new users will be...

It's mid-February, which means IT security executives' and industry analysts' plans for 2018 are really starting to gather momentum. Every year, this personnel faces the difficult task of deciding what security investments they should make given current developments in the cyber threat landscape. Google Trends and other services can help...

App security isn’t a feature or a benefit – it is a bare necessity. One breach could cost your company not just millions of dollars but a lifetime of trust. That is why security should be a priority from the moment you start writing the first line of code. While you were busy developing the most intuitive, innovative and exciting apps, security...

The DoubleDoor Internet of Things (IoT) botnet circumvents firewall protection and other security measures by abusing two vulnerabilities. Detected by NewSky Security in its honeypot logs, DoubleDoor begins by deploying CVE-2015-7755. The vulnerability allows remote attackers to gain administrative access to ScreenOS, an operating system for Juniper...

Ransomware attacks against healthcare providers aren't new. In 2017, two crypto-malware infections affecting medical organizations made The State of Security's top list of ransomware attacks for the year. The first involved an unknown strain that targeted Arkansas Oral & Facial Surgery Center, an incident which affected X-ray images, documents, and...

2018 is set to be a very exciting year for cloud computing. In the fourth financial quarter of 2017, Amazon, SAP, Microsoft, IBM, Salesforce, Oracle, and Google combined had over $22 billion in their revenue from cloud services. Cloud services will only get bigger in 2018. It’s easy to understand why businesses love the cloud. It’s easier and more...

Today’s VERT Alert addresses Microsoft’s February 2018 Security Updates. VERT is actively working on coverage for these vulnerabilities and expects to ship ASPL-765 on Wednesday, February 14th. In-The-Wild & Disclosed CVEs CVE-2018-0771 This vulnerability describes a Same-Origin Policy (SOP) bypass in Microsoft Edge. The SOP is designed to...

DevOps and traditional security seem to be at odds with one other. But it doesn’t have to be that way. You can make security a part of your DevOps process without sacrificing agility or security. First, let's define what DevOps is. Let's then look at how it combines with security to create DevSecOps.DevOps: A Working DefinitionSo, what do we mean by ...

Navigating the noise, complexity and uncertainties of the cybersecurity landscape demands clear thinking. But that’s no easy task. The security professional today has to be knowledgeable about the organization’s own environment, business needs and risks, compliance requirements, best practice frameworks, internal policies and procedures, and the...

Securing industrial operations is a unique challenge. The same approach used to secure information technology (IT) networks can't effectively secure plant floors. That's because operational technology (OT) has evolved tremendously over the years, creating very complex environments consisting of a dizzying variety of devices from different makes,...

There's a growing trend spreading through many different organizations in which automated and advanced security features are being developed, capabilities which were previously in the realm of more traditional security vendors. There’s now more security in more places than ever before, with much of it owing to infrastructure and software-as-a...

The WannaCry and NotPetya outbreaks were by far among the most significant digital attack campaigns that took place in 2017. Together, the crypto-ransomware and wiper malware affected hundreds of thousands of computers all over the world. They achieved this reach by abusing EternalBlue. Allegedly developed by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA)...

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The second half of 2017 was busy in terms of digital security events. In September, consumer reporting agency Equifax announced a breach that potentially compromised the Social Security Numbers and other personal information of 143 million U.S. consumers. Less than two months later, organizations in Russia and Ukraine suffered infections at the...

A recent article in the New York Times postulated America may choose to respond to a devastating cyberattack with a nuclear response. In November of 2017, a widely viewed social media video entitled Slaughterbots suggested “swarms of AI-controlled drones [could] carry out strikes on thousands of unprepared victims with targeted precision.” Both of...

There are many managerial and operational tasks required to successfully grow a startup business. One of the biggest mistakes startup businesses make is neglecting to safeguard their data from cyber threats. Some studies show that 200,000 new malware samples were discovered each day in 2016. Unfortunately, analysts expect this number to increase as...

A popular WordPress plugin has fixed a vulnerability that allowed an unauthenticated user to download the subscriber lists for more than 100,000 websites. Email Subscribers & Newsletters incorporated the fix into version 3.4.8 on 19 January after working closely with Dominykas Gelucevicius from ThreatPress, a company which offers security products and...

The retail industry saw more than its fair share of data breaches in 2017, with security incidents impacting at American supermarket chain Whole Foods Market and clothing companies Brooks Brothers, The Buckle, and Forever 21, to name a few. At least some of those events likely resulted from retailers' poor data breach preparation. Consider the fact...