🕴 Hellman & Friedman Acquires Checkmarx for $1.15B 🕴
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The private equity firm will buy Checkmarx from Insight Partners, which will continue to own a minority interest.📖 Read
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Hellman & Friedman Acquires Checkmarx for $1.15B
The private equity firm will buy Checkmarx from Insight Partners, which will continue to own a minority interest.
🕴 Needed: A Cybersecurity Good Samaritan Law 🕴
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Legislation should protect the good hackers who are helping to keep us safe, not just go after the bad.📖 Read
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Needed: A Cybersecurity Good Samaritan Law
Legislation should protect the good hackers who are helping to keep us safe, not just go after the bad.
🕴 InfoSec Pros Uncertain About Relationships With Partner Security Teams 🕴
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Only half of respondents to a recent Dark Reading study felt confident that their third-party business partners would, at least, tell them if a compromise occurred.📖 Read
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InfoSec Pros Uncertain About Relationships With Partner Security Teams
Only half of respondents to a recent Dark Reading study felt confident that their third-party business partners would, at least, tell them if a compromise occurred.
🔐 Cybersecurity risks grow as thousands of federal employees shift to telecommuting 🔐
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The Trump administration has ordered hundreds of thousands of federal employees to be prepared to work from home full time and use VPNs to connect to government systems.📖 Read
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Cybersecurity risks grow as thousands of federal employees shift to telecommuting
The Trump administration has ordered hundreds of thousands of federal employees to be prepared to work from home full time and use VPNs to connect to government systems.
❌ APT36 Taps Coronavirus as ‘Golden Opportunity’ to Spread Crimson RAT ❌
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The Pakistani-linked APT has been spotted infecting victims with data exfiltration malware.📖 Read
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APT36 Taps Coronavirus as ‘Golden Opportunity’ to Spread Crimson RAT
The Pakistani-linked APT has been spotted infecting victims with data exfiltration malware.
🔐 How to protect your organization from security threats amidst the rise in telecommuters 🔐
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Security becomes a greater challenge as more people work from home due to the coronavirus. Learn how to better protect your organization and employees.📖 Read
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How to protect your organization from security threats amidst the rise in telecommuters
Security becomes a greater challenge as more people work from home due to the coronavirus. Learn how to better protect your organization and employees.
🕴 Remote Workforce Jumps 15% In Two Weeks 🕴
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Netskope reports the total number of remote employees is the highest it has ever observed.📖 Read
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Remote Workforce Jumps 15% In Two Weeks
Netskope reports the total number of remote employees is the highest it has ever observed.
ATENTION‼ New - CVE-2019-11074
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via "National Vulnerability Database".
A Write to Arbitrary Location in Disk vulnerability exists in PRTG Network Monitor 19.1.49 and below that allows attackers to place files in arbitrary locations with SYSTEM privileges (although not controlling the contents of such files) due to insufficient sanitisation when passing arguments to the phantomjs.exe binary. In order to exploit the vulnerability, remote authenticated administrators need to create a new HTTP Full Web Page Sensor and set specific settings when executing the sensor.📖 Read
via "National Vulnerability Database".
ATENTION‼ New - CVE-2018-21037
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Subrion CMS 4.1.5 (and possibly earlier versions) allow CSRF to change the administrator password via the panel/members/edit/1 URI.📖 Read
via "National Vulnerability Database".
ATENTION‼ New - CVE-2018-18576
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via "National Vulnerability Database".
The Hustle (aka wordpress-popup) plugin through 6.0.5 for WordPress allows Directory Traversal to obtain a directory listing via the views/admin/dashboard/ URI.📖 Read
via "National Vulnerability Database".
🕴 This Tax Season, Save the Scorn and Protect Customers from Phishing Scams 🕴
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As security professionals, it's easy to get cynical about the continued proliferation of tax ID theft and blame the consumers themselves. But that doesn't help anyone.📖 Read
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This Tax Season, Save the Scorn and Protect Customers from Phishing Scams
As security professionals, it's easy to get cynical about the continued proliferation of tax ID theft and blame the consumers themselves. But that doesn't help anyone.
🕴 Security Lessons We've Learned (So Far) from COVID-19 🕴
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Takeaways about fighting new fires, securely enabling remote workforces, and human nature during difficult times.📖 Read
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Security Lessons We've Learned (So Far) from COVID-19
Takeaways about fighting new fires, securely enabling remote workforces, and human nature during difficult times.
🔏 Canadian Govt Prioritizing Rules Around Insider Threats 🔏
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Following a high profile espionage case, Canada is set to roll out a new set of protocols designed to stop insider threats within government departments.📖 Read
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Canadian Govt Prioritizing Rules Around Insider Threats
Following a high profile espionage case, Canada is set to roll out a new set of protocols designed to stop insider threats within government departments.
🕴 Startup Offering Secure Access to Corporate Apps Emerges from Stealth 🕴
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Axis Security has raised $17 million in VC funding.📖 Read
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Startup Offering Secure Access to Corporate Apps Emerges from Stealth
Axis Security has raised $17 million in VC funding.
🕴 Attorney General Directs DoJ to Prioritize Coronavirus Crime 🕴
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Criminal activity related to the pandemic cannot be tolerated, William Barr states in memo.📖 Read
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❌ This Stalkerware Delivers Extra-Creepy Features ❌
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Stalkerware called Monitor Minor gives users the ability to creep on a target’s missives swapped via Instagram, Skype and Snapchat.📖 Read
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This Stalkerware Delivers Extra-Creepy Features
Stalkerware called Monitor Minor gives users the ability to creep on a target’s missives swapped via Instagram, Skype and Snapchat.
❌ A COVID-19 Cybersecurity Poll: Securing a Remote Workforce ❌
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COVID-19 is changing how we work. Weigh in on how your organization is securing its remote footprint with our short Threatpost poll.📖 Read
via "Threatpost".
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A COVID-19 Cybersecurity Poll: Securing a Remote Workforce
COVID-19 is changing how we work. Weigh in on how your organization is securing its remote footprint with our short Threatpost poll.
ATENTION‼ New - CVE-2019-11939
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via "National Vulnerability Database".
Golang Facebook Thrift servers would not error upon receiving messages declaring containers of sizes larger than the payload. As a result, malicious clients could send short messages which would result in a large memory allocation, potentially leading to denial of service. This issue affects Facebook Thrift prior to v2020.03.16.00.📖 Read
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❌ Magecart Cyberattack Targets NutriBullet Website ❌
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Researchers warn that a Magecart group has set up skimmers on the blender manufacturer's website, in hopes of stealing customer payment-card data.📖 Read
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Magecart Cyberattack Targets NutriBullet Website
Researchers warn that a Magecart group has set up skimmers on the blender manufacturer's website, in hopes of stealing customer payment-card data.
⚠ Human traffickers use social media oversharing to gain victims’ trust ⚠
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Posts about money or family trouble are being used to gain trust by those who force victims into sex work or slavery, the FBI warns.📖 Read
via "Naked Security".
Naked Security
Human traffickers use social media oversharing to gain victims’ trust
Posts about money or family trouble are being used to gain trust by those who force victims into sex work or slavery, the FBI warns.