European hotel booking platform provider Gekko Group mistakenly stored over 1 terabyte of information on a publicly configured server, exposing troves of data related to its hotel B2B clients, as well as travel agents and their customers. The majority of the exposed data was collected by Gekko brands Teldar Travel,…
Chinese Leader Xi Jinping’s Mind Explained
Xi Jinping is a Chinese renaissance man. Self-assured, self-possessed, and utterly unflappable, Xi is equally at home on the hearths of struggling farmers and in the greeting halls of foreign capitals. State media likes to juxtapose the years he spent in the caves of Shaanxi with the days he spent…
The wide availability of tools leaked by the Shadow Brokers and WikiLeaks in 2016 and 2017 have given emerging cyber powers a way to catch up, DarkOwl says. The public leaks of classified NSA and CIA hacking tools in 2016 and 2017 appear to have leveled the playing field for…
Derbycon2019, Stuart McMurray’s ‘Adventures In Systemd Injection’
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Crippled services, decades’ worth of lost legal documents, millions of dollars in recovery — that’s the fallout from just one recent high-profile cybersecurity assault: the 2018 ransomware attack on Atlanta. It was a wakeup call not just for municipalities, but for anyone with valuable assets and a modem. While cyberattacks…
Home > Security News SC Media is honored to present the thought leading professionals, innovative companies and powerful products and services named as finalists for the 2020 SC Awards. The SC Media team welcomes all of the finalists to join us in San Francisco on February 25 at the InterContinental…
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has partnered with VotingWorks on an open source tool to aid election result audits. Arlo the auditing tool may play a key role in securing next year’s elections. The open source tool, created by VotingWorks in partnership with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency…
by Joe Panettieri • Nov 21, 2019 Each business day, MSSP Alert broadcasts a quick lineup of news, analysis and chatter from across that managed security services provider ecosystem. The Content: Written for MSSPs, SOC as a Service (SOCaaS), Managed Detection and Response (MDR) and MSP security providers — and those…
Case Study: MixMode AI Detects Attack not Found on Threat Intel
In October, 2019 a MixMode customer experienced an incident where an external entity attacked a web server located in their DMZ, compromised it, and then pivoted internally through the DMZ to attempt access of a customer database. While the attacker was successful in penetrating the customer’s network, MixMode was able…
The US Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) is to welcome its first ever cybersecurity business next year. In a statement released today and published in the Marianas Variety, the CNMI Departments of Commerce and Labor announced that an unnamed US-based cybersecurity firm will open its newest Security Operations Center on…
Clumio Achieves ‘Advanced Technology Partner’ Status in the Amazon Web Services Partner Network
SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Clumio, innovators of authentic SaaS for enterprise backup, today announced that it has reached Advanced Technology Partner status in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN). Using Clumio’s secure service, organizations can eliminate the hardware and software of on-premises backup and avoid the complexity and cost…
President Donald Trump allegedly withheld hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid from the Ukrainian government to push lawmakers to announce an investigation into the son of a potential political opponent and his work with a Ukrainian energy company. That much, at least, seems clear. As does the fact…
Home > Security News > Malware A security research firm has been tracking a botnet that first popped onto its radar back in August that for some reason declines to make use of its DDos capabilities. The first bit of evidence found on the Roboto botnet was when the 360…
Lots of people looking for a deal means that there are also a number of criminals looking to take advantage of those shopping. Black Friday kicks off a shopping frenzy in the US and that same frenzy is leaking into other parts of the world, particularly here in South Africa….
Startpage.com has created a private News tab that allows users to search the internet without logging in or sharing any personal information. The Dutch company launched the News tab today as an additional feature of its existing private browsing extension. The tab allows users to keep up with the latest news stories in…
Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley sent classified information over an unclassified email system. As her staff was crafting her response to North Korea testing an intercontinental ballistic missile, Haley was communicating with them from home using her Blackberry 10 after losing her password to the classified system, according to documents…
For fans of DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) privacy, it must feel like a dam of resistance is starting to break. Mozilla Firefox and Cloudflare were the earliest adopters of this controversial new way to make DNS queries private by encrypting them, followed not long after by the weight of Google, which embedded…
Posted by Jessica Lin, Android Security Team The Android Security Rewards (ASR) program was created in 2015 to reward researchers who find and report security issues to help keep the Android ecosystem safe. Over the past 4 years, we have awarded over 1,800 reports, and paid out over four million…
Speaking at Irisscon in Dublin, McAfee chief scientist Raj Samani said that ransomware has evolved from a one to one “relationship” between the author of the malware and the victim, to using more affiliates to distribute the malware. Citing the WannaCry ransomware epidemic of 2017, Samani said that was further…
Derbycon2019, Walter Legowski’s ‘Invoke-GreatBirdOfCommonKnowledge – Gathering What Is Scattered With ATT&CK, An Atomic Bird, And A Bit Of Homegrown PowerShell…’
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