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VERT Threat Alert: December 2022 Patch Tuesday Analysis

Today’s VERT Alert addresses Microsoft’s December 2022 Security Updates. VERT is actively working on coverage for these vulnerabilities and expects to ship ASPL-1034 on Wednesday, December 14th. In-The-Wild & Disclosed CVEs CVE-2022-44698 This vulnerability allows a malicious individual to bypass SmartScreen, which does a reputation check based...
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CISO interview with Darren Desmond, the CISO with the Automobile Association in the UK

Philip Ingram (PI) talked to Darren Desmond (DD). Darren currently works with the Automobile Association (AA) in the UK as the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), joining in 2018. He started his professional career in the British Army's Royal Military Police, before a stint in the Special Investigation Branch, and Military Intelligence....
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Cybersecurity challenges facing SMBs and steps to protect them

Businesses come in many different sizes, yet, they all share one similarity; the growing need for cybersecurity in today’s ever-changing technology landscape. While large companies with robust security infrastructure and experience may ward off many aspiring cybercriminals, small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) prove to be ideal targets. Lacking...
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Extra, Extra, VERT Reads All About It: Cybersecurity News for the Week of December 5, 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 December 5th, 2022. I’ve also included some comments on these stories. Vulnerable Redis servers allow malware to drop a...
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Tripwire Enterprise Use Cases- Advanced Control

During my time as a cybersecurity admin, I had the authority to decide what was going to be done, but I didn’t have the access to configure or install my own software. To make matters worse, despite having authority over the implementation, I was also held accountable for failures but again, without the necessary access to fix issues. This created a...
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Malicious hackers exploit Seoul Halloween tragedy in zero-day attack

Malicious hackers, hell-bent on infiltrating an organisation, have no qualms about exploiting even the most tragic events. Take, for instance, the horrific crowd crush that occurred in Seoul's nightlife district of Itaweon on 29 October, when over 150 people were killed during Halloween festivities. Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) reports...
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Tripwire Patch Priority Index for October 2022

Tripwire's October 2022 Patch Priority Index (PPI) brings together important vulnerabilities for Microsoft and Adobe. First on the patch priority list this month are patches for Chromium and Microsoft Edge based on Chromium. These patches resolve over 10 issues such as user-after-free, insufficient policy enforcement, and out-of-bounds write...
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Choosing the Right Industrial Cybersecurity Framework

It’s no surprise that industrial environments have become increasingly valuable targets for malicious behavior. The State of Security has featured many cybersecurity events across myriad industrial verticals, including but not limited to chemical manufacturing, transportation, power generation and petrochemical. Several of these industries have...
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How proper use of Identity and Access Management (IAM) can protect your organization from breaches.

In the world of security, authentication, and authorization methodologies are foundational aspects of defense. Authentication techniques protect against unlawful entry to systems through the verification of a user, and authorization either grants or denies the verified user’s access level. For example, if an employee from the finance department...
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Extra, Extra, VERT Reads All About It: Cybersecurity News for the Week of November 28, 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 November 28th, 2022. I’ve also included some comments on these stories. UEFI bugs disabled Secure Boot Acer has fixed a...
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How to Overcome Access Governance Challenges in Multi-Cloud Environments

Identity governance, also known as access governance, is an integral part of any enterprise data protection and compliance framework. Seamless and timely access to required systems or resources can significantly increase employees’ productivity and performance. However, excessive privileges or unmonitored user access can often lead to internal and...
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Whoops! Researchers accidentally crash botnet used to launch DDoS and cryptomining campaigns

Researchers investigating a newly-discovered botnet have admitted that they "accidentally" broke it. In November, security experts at Akamai described a Golang-based botnet that they had discovered, hijacking PCs via SSH and weak credentials in order to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and mine cryptocurrency. The botnet, which...
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What Can Football Teach Cybersecurity About Resilience?

One thing is for certain in football, surprises do happen. Whether it is Saudi Arabia beating Argentina or Germany losing to Japan in the World Cup 2022, football is a sport full of excitement. But have you ever thought that football can teach us many great lessons about cybersecurity? Football can be a great teachable moment for cybersecurity ...
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Highlights From the Tripwire Energy & NERC Compliance Working Group

Recently, Tripwire held its Energy and NERC Compliance Working Group virtual event. Tripwire has customers spanning the entire energy industry, including small, medium, and large city municipals, cooperatives, and investor-owned utilities and energy companies. The information shared in these sessions offered valuable insights for both very mature...
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Tripwire Enterprise Use Cases – Advanced Monitoring

Many people remember where they were during historic events. Whether it is a personal, or a public occurrence, it’s just human nature to remember these significant moments. Every profession also has its share of memorable events. In medicine, those who were in the profession will remember where they were when they heard about the first heart...
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Zero Trust: Key challenges, benefits and how it works

Zero trust is a security approach which replaces the traditional network edge. Since network resources can be anywhere – on-premises, in the cloud, or a hybrid of both – zero trust is built towards an identity-centric approach. This places people and resources at the heart of the security architecture. What is a zero-trust model? The most...
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Cyberattacks are targeting smaller healthcare companies and specialty clinics. But why?

The healthcare industry has been a favored target for cybercriminals for many years. In the first half of 2022 alone, 324 attacks against healthcare organizations have been reported. Attackers have primarily focused on large hospitals in years past, but there has been a sudden switch to smaller healthcare companies and specialty clinics. There...
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MFA Prompt bombing: What you need to know

Have you ever had to set up your Gmail account on a secondary device, such as your tablet, and when you tried to login, verification prompts were sent to your original device to confirm that the login attempt was done by you? You confirmed the login, and that ended it. That is exactly what happened to an Uber employee whose account was compromised....