Tag: risk
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Critical infrastructure at state, local levels at heightened risk of cyberattacks
State and local governments need additional resources, shared intelligence and coordination, an MS-ISAC report showed. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/critical-infrastructure-state-local-cyber/741273/
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Is your enterprise ‘cyber resilient’? Probably not. Here’s how other boards fixed that
Tags: backup, breach, business, ciso, cloud, compliance, control, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, endpoint, finance, framework, governance, incident, metric, monitoring, nist, resilience, risk, service, strategy, supply-chain, tool, training, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementLockheed Martin: Lockheed Martin introduced its Cyber Resiliency Level (CRL) Framework and corresponding Scoreboard in 2018, illustrating a more formalized approach to measuring cyber resilience during this period. The company’s Cyber Resiliency Scoreboard includes tools like a questionnaire and dashboard for measuring the maturity levels of six categories, including Cyber Hygiene and Architecture.MIT: The Balanced Scorecard for Cyber Resilience (BSCR) provides…
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UK silence over Apple ‘back door’ is unsustainable and unjustifiable, say experts
Britain’s government risks its domestic and international standing as it refuses to either confirm or deny any details about a legal notice targeting Apple’s cryptographic protections for iCloud accounts, experts tell Recorded Future News. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/apple-uk-back-door-request-privacy-security-experts
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Spotlight on Regulatory Compliance: The Challenges Your IT and Security Teams May Face
Businesses face increasing pressure to maintain compliance across regions, mitigate risks and improve consumer protection and stakeholder trust. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/02/spotlight-on-regulatory-compliance-the-challenges-your-it-and-security-teams-may-face/
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New PassCookie Attacks Bypass MFA, Giving Hackers Full Account Access
Multi-factor authentication (MFA), long considered a cornerstone of cybersecurity defense, is facing a formidable new threat:>>Pass-the-Cookie
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12,000+ API Keys and Passwords Found in Public Datasets Used for LLM Training
A dataset used to train large language models (LLMs) has been found to contain nearly 12,000 live secrets, which allow for successful authentication.The findings once again highlight how hard-coded credentials pose a severe security risk to users and organizations alike, not to mention compounding the problem when LLMs end up suggesting insecure coding practices to…
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What is zero trust? The security model for a distributed and risky era
Tags: access, ai, authentication, best-practice, breach, business, ceo, cloud, compliance, computer, computing, control, corporate, credentials, cyberattack, data, detection, framework, government, guide, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, jobs, login, monitoring, network, nist, office, password, ransomware, regulation, risk, saas, service, technology, threat, tool, vpn, zero-trustHow zero trust works: To visualize how zero trust works, consider a simple case: a user accessing a shared web application. Under traditional security rules, if a user was on a corporate network, either because they were in the office or connected via a VPN, they could simply click the application and access it; because…
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Risiken moderner Videoüberwachungssysteme Kameras im Fadenkreuz!
First seen on security-insider.de Jump to article: www.security-insider.de/cyberangriffe-auf-iot-kameras-a-296387c467415cfb9d37bf790345d7e2/
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Schwachstellen managen: Die besten Vulnerability-Management-Tools
Tags: attack, cloud, compliance, data, detection, google, infrastructure, Internet, iot, microsoft, risk, saas, service, software, tool, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementSchwachstellen zu managen, muss keine Schwerstarbeit sein. Wenn Sie die richtigen Tools einsetzen. Das sind die besten in Sachen Vulnerability Management.Nicht nur das Vulnerability Management hat sich im Laufe der Jahre erheblich verändert, sondern auch die Systeme, auf denen Schwachstellen identifiziert und gepatcht werden müssen. Systeme für das Schwachstellen-Management fokussieren heutzutage nicht mehr nur auf…
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DeepSeek Data Leak Exposes 12,000 Hardcoded API Keys and Passwords
A sweeping analysis of the Common Crawl dataset”, a cornerstone of training data for large language models (LLMs) like DeepSeek”, has uncovered 11,908 live API keys, passwords, and credentials embedded in publicly accessible web pages. The leaked secrets, which authenticate successfully with services ranging from AWS to Slack and Mailchimp, highlight systemic risks in AI…
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Is Your NHI Lifecycle Management Capable?
Is Your Approach to NHI Lifecycle Management Robust Enough? Have you ever wondered about the invisibility of your organizational cyber risk? When did you last evaluate the strength of your Non-Human Identity (NHI) lifecycle management? The management of NHIs and their secrets has become paramount. NHIs are machine identities that play a pivotal role in……
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New White House Plan to Track Spending Raises Cyber Risks
Trump’s Procurement Tracking Directive Could Expose Vast Government Data to Threats. The White House is mandating federal agencies to track and justify every procurement, a move aimed at transparency but one that experts warn could expose troves of sensitive financial data to hacking, nation-state cyber threats and potential supply chain vulnerabilities across government systems. First…
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How to configure OAuth in Microsoft 365 Defender and keep your cloud secure
Tags: access, attack, authentication, backup, business, cloud, email, identity, mail, mfa, microsoft, monitoring, password, risk, risk-analysis, software, tool, vulnerability, windowsSet the filter to permission level “high severity” and community use to “not common”. Using this filter, you can focus on apps that are potentially very risky, where users may have underestimated the risk.Under Permissions select all the options that are particularly risky in a specific context. For example, you can select all the filters…
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5 things to know about ransomware threats in 2025
Tags: access, attack, authentication, awareness, backup, breach, ciso, cloud, control, credentials, cyber, dark-web, data, data-breach, defense, detection, encryption, exploit, extortion, finance, fraud, group, healthcare, identity, incident response, infrastructure, Internet, iot, law, leak, mfa, monitoring, network, password, ransom, ransomware, risk, scam, service, software, sophos, supply-chain, technology, threat, tool, update, vpn, vulnerability, zero-day2. Mid-size organizations are highly vulnerable: Industry data shows mid-size organizations remain highly vulnerable to ransomware attacks. “CISOs need to be aware that ransomware is no longer just targeting large companies, but now even mid-sized organizations are at risk. This awareness is crucial,” says Christiaan Beek, senior director, threat analytics, at Rapid7.Companies with annual revenue…
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GitLab Vulnerabilities Allow Attackers to Bypass Security and Run Arbitrary Scripts
GitLab has urgently released security updates to address multiple high-severity vulnerabilities in its platform that could allow attackers to bypass security mechanisms, execute malicious scripts, and access sensitive data. The patches, included in versions 17.9.1, 17.8.4, and 17.7.6 for both Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE), mitigate critical risks affecting Kubernetes integrations, dependency management,…
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What CISOs need from the board: Mutual respect on expectations
Tags: business, ceo, ciso, compliance, control, cyber, cybersecurity, finance, framework, governance, metric, risk, risk-management, skills, strategy, technology, threat, update, vulnerabilityPart 500. While this legislation was groundbreaking for being very prescriptive in what cyber controls are required, there was in earlier drafts indications that each board should have suitably cyber-qualified members.Similar guidelines were established with the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) drafting its Cyber Governance Principles, which were recently refreshed. The timing of this…
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The compliance illusion: Why your company might be at risk despite passing audits
For many CISOs, compliance can feel like a necessary evil and a false sense of security. While frameworks like ISO 27001, SOC 2, and PCI DSS offer structured guidelines, they … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/02/26/compliance-security-illustion/
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2,850+ Ivanti Connect Secure Devices Exposed to Potential Cyberattacks
Tags: cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data-breach, exploit, flaw, government, infrastructure, ivanti, network, risk, vpn, vulnerabilityA sweeping cybersecurity alert has emerged as researchers identify 2,850+ unpatched Ivanti Connect Secure devices worldwide, leaving organizations vulnerable to exploitation through the critical flaw designated CVE-2025-22467. The findings, published by cybersecurity watchdog Shadowserver Foundation, reveal systemic risks to virtual private network (VPN) infrastructures relied upon by enterprises and government agencies for secure remote access. Vulnerability Scope and…
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Understanding deliberate delayed revocation: a threat to trust
Deliberate delayed revocation”, the intentional postponement of revoking compromised certificates”, poses a severe risk to internet security and trust. This practice creates vulnerabilities, erodes confidence in the web PKI, and weakens industry standards. As a leading Certificate Authority (CA), Sectigo rejects this harmful approach, advocating for immediate revocation, transparency, and accountability. To protect the digital…
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DOGE must halt all ‘negligent cybersecurity practices,’ House Democrats tell Trump
The Trump administration should “cease all DOGE activities that create serious cybersecurity vulnerabilities, expose government networks to cyberattacks, and risk disclosures of sensitive and personal information,” Democrats from the House Oversight Committee said in a letter to the White House. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/doge-cybersecurity-house-democrats-letter-trump
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What Is Cybersecurity Performance Management? – Kovrr
Articles related to cyber risk quantification, cyber risk management, and cyber resilience. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/02/what-is-cybersecurity-performance-management-kovrr/
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Sophos-KI-Umfrage: IT-Profis fühlen sich für KI-Einsatz gerüstet, bleiben aber skeptisch
40,5 Prozent aller Unternehmen erwarten erheblich höhere Kosten für KI-gestützte Cybersicherheitslösungen. Während Konzerne dies weniger kritisch sehen (25,8 Prozent), bewerten Banken dieses Risiko besonders hoch (50 Prozent). First seen on infopoint-security.de Jump to article: www.infopoint-security.de/sophos-ki-umfrage-it-profis-fuehlen-sich-fuer-ki-einsatz-geruestet-bleiben-aber-skeptisch/a39948/
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Hiscout aktualisiert sein Informationssicherheit-Modul mit neuen regulatorischen Anforderungen in Bezug auf NIS2 und DORA gemäß ISO27001
Als führender Anbieter von Softwarelösungen für Governance, Risk und Compliance (GRC) hat Hiscout im aktuellen Release 3.7.0 im Hinblick auf neue regulatorische Anforderungen wie NIS2 und DORA den Schwerpunkt auf die Aktualisierung des ISM-Moduls (Informationssicherheit) mit Fokus auf die ISO27001 gelegt. Mit neuen Features wie einem mandantenfähigen Policy-Management und einem Auslagerungsmanagement werden hohe Compliance-Standards erfüllt.…
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Critical deserialization bugs in Adobe, Oracle software actively exploited, warns CISA
Oracle Agile PLM flaw open to N-days: The other vulnerability, fixed in January 2024, is a high severity (CVSS 8.8/10) flaw in the export component of the Oracle’s PLM software, and stems from the improper handling of serialized data. It’s tracked as CVE-2024-20953. Successful exploitation could enable a low-privileged attacker with network access via HTTP…
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Your item has sold! Avoiding scams targeting online sellers
There are many risks associated with selling items on online marketplaces that individuals and organizations should be aware of when conducting business on these platforms. First seen on blog.talosintelligence.com Jump to article: blog.talosintelligence.com/online-marketplace-scams/
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Asset-Exposure-Management reduziert Cyber-Risiken
Zscaler stellt mit Zscaler-Asset-Exposure-Management eine Lösung für das Asset-Risikomanagement in Unternehmen vor, die zur Kategorie von Cyber-Asset-Attack-Surface-Management (CAASM) zählt. Diese Lösung bildet die Grundlage für das umfassende Continuous-Threat-Exposure-Management (CTEM) -Angebot von Zscaler und bietet Unternehmen durch Konsolidierung und Korrelation von Daten aus einer Vielzahl von Quellen ein genaues Inventar ihrer Assets. Darauf aufbauend lassen sich…
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How to create an effective incident response plan
Tags: access, advisory, attack, backup, breach, business, ceo, ciso, communications, corporate, cyber, cybersecurity, email, endpoint, exploit, finance, governance, guide, incident, incident response, insurance, law, lessons-learned, malicious, monitoring, network, office, phone, ransomware, risk, security-incident, service, strategy, supply-chain, technology, threat, updateEstablish a comprehensive post-incident communications strategy: Another key element that can make or break an incident response strategy is communications. Without clear communications among the major stakeholders of the business, a company might experience much longer downtimes or the loss of vital processes for extended periods.”How are you going to go about communicating? With whom?…
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CISA Warns of Actively Exploited Adobe ColdFusion and Oracle Agile PLM Vulnerabilities
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has recently updated its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog by adding two critical vulnerabilities, both actively being exploited in the wild. These vulnerabilities, related to Adobe ColdFusion and Oracle Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), have been identified as security risks to federal agencies and organizations worldwide. First seen…