The U.S. Department of Defense released the first version of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) back on January 31, 2020. Since that time, there has been a flurry of different industry experts working towards helping clients understand and prepare for getting certified under CMMC. But what is it? The Cybersecurity Maturity Model...

Welcome to the second part of this two-part blog series for administrators who are new to the Chromebook enterprise system. In the previous blog, we discussed settings that are applicable to users and applications. In this blog, we will further explore the Chrome enterprise admin panel as we look into settings that pertain to privacy and physical...

An electric supply company based in Karachi, Pakistan suffered a Netwalker ransomware infection that disrupted its billing and online services. Bleeping Computer learned of the attack through Ransom Leaks, a ransomware researcher who received word from a local Pakistani company that the attack was affecting K-Electric's internal services. According...

Running the IoT Hack Lab at SecTor has been a highlight of my year since 2015. Although we won’t be back this year to fill our corner of the MTCC, I’m happy to be teaching A Beginner’s Guide to Reversing with Ghidra as part of the SecTor 2020 virtual conference October 19-20. Ghidra is an advanced software reverse engineering suite developed by NSA...

Today’s VERT Alert addresses Microsoft’s September 2020 Security Updates. VERT is actively working on coverage for these vulnerabilities and expects to ship ASPL-903 on Wednesday, September 9th. In-The-Wild & Disclosed CVEs There were no in-the-wild or disclosed CVEs included in this month’s security guidance. CVE Breakdown by Tag While...

The DoppelPaymer ransomware gang claimed responsibility for a digital security incident that affected Newcastle University's network and systems. In a news release published on its website, Newcastle University revealed that it had begun experiencing issues with several of its IT systems on August 30. Those issues rendered all services inoperable...

So far, there has not been a perfect solution to ridding the world of software and hardware weaknesses. Keeping up-to-date with which weaknesses have are most common and impactful can be a daunting task. Thankfully, a list has been made to do just that the Common Weakness Enumeration Top 25 (CWE). The CWE Top 25 is a community-developed list of the...

Tripwire’s Brent Holder and Stephen Wood discuss recent study findings that provide a snapshot of what organizations are doing (and not doing) to secure their cloud. https://open.spotify.com/episode/300LIn353riZWEtqtgrgJZ?si=XQPdinEsRZiKqjZiJdLgCw ...

Security researchers observed that malicious actors had incorporated a targeted company's homepage into a message quarantine phishing campaign. The Cofense Phishing Defense Center found that the phishing campaign began with an attack email that disguised itself as a message quarantine notification from the targeted company's IT department. The email...

Security researchers at Slovak security firm ESET have discovered a new family of malware that they say has been using a variety of techniques to steal cryptocurrency from unsuspecting users since at least December 2018. The malware, which has been named KryptoCibule, uses a variety of legitimate technology - including Tor and the Transmission...

Google announced its decision to increase the reward amounts for product abuse risks reported through its bug bounty program. On September 1, Google employees Marc Henson and Anna Hupa announced that researchers could now receive up to $13,337 for reporting a High-Impact vulnerability through which a malicious actor could abuse Google products for...

Recently, both Apple and Google released new updates for iPhone and Android devices. One feature that was added was “Covid-19 Exposure Logging.” The feature is off (for now), and according to the text that accompanies the app, when turned on, it is set to communicate via Bluetooth to other devices. ...

Data is only as good as what you are able to do with it. Not only does the cybersecurity universe collect data, but individual enterprises also collect cybersecurity data from within their organization as well as from external sources in order to add to more context and relevance. All data needs to be analyzed in order to create actionable insights...

A Colorado man received a prison sentence of 11 years for having served as a moderator on the AlphaBay underground marketplace. U.S. District Court Judge Dale A. Drozd handed down the sentence to Bryan Connor Herrell (known as “Penissmith” and “Botah” online), 26, of Aurora, Colorado on September 1,...

Many organizations, from enterprises to small businesses and schools, are focusing efforts on distance working and learning. One significant hurdle for those who are suddenly tasked with supporting remote users is the question of how to manage a fleet of new endpoints. One appealing solution for managing all these new remote users is to use Google...

All of us know what a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) does from afar. A CISO upholds the organization’s overall security by overseeing the operations of the IS practice, the IT security department and related staff. In this capacity, those who become a CISO attain the highest paying job in information security, as it carries the associated...

A report revealed that scammers requested funds in the form of gift cards in two-thirds of business email compromise (BEC) attacks. For a phishing trends report from the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG), APWG member Agari examined thousands of BEC attacks that occurred in the second half of 2020. It found that 66% of them involved gift cards. By...

Tripwire's August 2020 Patch Priority Index (PPI) brings together important vulnerabilities from Microsoft, Adobe, and Apple. Up first on the patch priority list this month are patches for Microsoft and Apple for vulnerabilities that have been integrated into various exploits. Metasploit has recently added exploits for Microsoft .NET Framework,...

Security configuration management (SCM) involves maintaining a secure baseline configuration for an organization’s systems and monitoring those assets for deviations from that baseline. This fundamental control pairs well with other elements of an organization’s security strategy. As such, SCM enables security teams to harden their organization’s...

Researchers observed that the Emotet gang had incorporated a new "Red Dawn" template into their weaponized Word Documents delivered to users. Until recently, Emotet's handlers had been targeting users with a iOS-themed document template for their malicious Word documents. The template explained that a sender had created the document on iOS, and it...