Tag: switch
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Behind the firewall: The hidden struggles of cyber professionals with a disability
Daisy Wong Daisy WongWhen Daisy Wong, head of security awareness at Medibank, first entered cybersecurity, she didn’t expect to become an advocate for inclusion, she just wanted to prove that being in a wheelchair was no barrier to what she could achieve. “I never wanted to be in cybersecurity. I did marketing at uni,” she…
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Breach Roundup: UK Probes Chinese-Made Electric Buses
Also, North Korean Hackers Remotely Wipe Android Devices. This week, the U.K. government probed Chinese electric buses for a kill switch, APT37 abused Google’s Find Hub in South Korea, Conduent said its January hack will cost it more, Hyundai disclosed a breach and Patch Tuesday. OWASP added two new categories to its Top 10 web…
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Fernzugriff aus China: Briten untersuchen ihre Elektrobusse auf Kill-Switch
Eine Untersuchung aus Norwegen ruft weitere Behörden auf den Plan. Der chinesische Hersteller Yutong soll aus der Ferne seine E-Busse lahmlegen können. First seen on golem.de Jump to article: www.golem.de/news/fernzugriff-aus-china-briten-untersuchen-ihre-elektrobusse-auf-kill-switch-2511-202048.html
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Fernzugriff aus China: Briten untersuchen ihre Elektrobusse auf Kill-Switch
Eine Untersuchung aus Norwegen ruft weitere Behörden auf den Plan. Der chinesische Hersteller Yutong soll aus der Ferne seine E-Busse lahmlegen können. First seen on golem.de Jump to article: www.golem.de/news/fernzugriff-aus-china-briten-untersuchen-ihre-elektrobusse-auf-kill-switch-2511-202048.html
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Oct Recap: New AWS Privileged Permissions and Services
As October 2025 closes, Sonrai’s latest analysis of new AWS permissions reveals a continued trend: incremental privilege changes with outsized impact. This month’s additions span OpenSearch Ingestion, Aurora DSQL, QuickSight, Parallel Computing Service, ARC Region Switch, and RTB Fabric, touching critical areas of data analytics, compute orchestration, and real-time traffic systems. These updates introduce capabilities……
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Oct Recap: New AWS Privileged Permissions and Services
As October 2025 closes, Sonrai’s latest analysis of new AWS permissions reveals a continued trend: incremental privilege changes with outsized impact. This month’s additions span OpenSearch Ingestion, Aurora DSQL, QuickSight, Parallel Computing Service, ARC Region Switch, and RTB Fabric, touching critical areas of data analytics, compute orchestration, and real-time traffic systems. These updates introduce capabilities……
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Oct Recap: New AWS Privileged Permissions and Services
As October 2025 closes, Sonrai’s latest analysis of new AWS permissions reveals a continued trend: incremental privilege changes with outsized impact. This month’s additions span OpenSearch Ingestion, Aurora DSQL, QuickSight, Parallel Computing Service, ARC Region Switch, and RTB Fabric, touching critical areas of data analytics, compute orchestration, and real-time traffic systems. These updates introduce capabilities……
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Microsoft Security Change for Azure VMs Creates Pitfalls
Firms using Azure infrastructure gained a reprieve from a security-focused switch that could have broken apps that relied on public Internet access. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cloud-security/microsoft-security-change-azure-vms-creates-pitfalls
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X warns users to re-enroll passkeys and YubiKeys for 2FA by Nov 10
X urges users with passkeys or YubiKeys to re-enroll 2FA by Nov 10, 2025, or risk account lockout. Re-enroll, switch 2FA, or disable it. Social media platform X is urging users who use passkeys or hardware security keys like YubiKeys for two-factor authentication (2FA) to re-enroll their keys by November 10, 2025, to keep account…
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Your smart building isn’t so smart without security
Tags: switchThe lights switch on as you walk in. The air adjusts to your presence. Somewhere in the background, a server notes your arrival. It’s the comfort of a smart building, but that … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/10/21/smart-buildings-cybersecurity-risks/
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Your smart building isn’t so smart without security
Tags: switchThe lights switch on as you walk in. The air adjusts to your presence. Somewhere in the background, a server notes your arrival. It’s the comfort of a smart building, but that … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/10/21/smart-buildings-cybersecurity-risks/
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TDL 007 – Cyber Warriors Digital Shadows: Insights from Canada’s Cybersecurity Leader
Tags: ai, awareness, backup, breach, browser, business, cio, ciso, communications, conference, control, corporate, country, cryptography, cyber, cybersecurity, dark-web, data, data-breach, defense, dns, email, encryption, finance, government, healthcare, identity, incident, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, jobs, law, leak, linux, malicious, mfa, mitigation, network, organized, phone, privacy, ransom, ransomware, RedTeam, resilience, risk, risk-management, router, service, startup, strategy, supply-chain, switch, tactics, technology, theft, threat, tool, training, windowsSummary In this episode of The Defender’s Log, host David Redekop interviews Sami Khoury, the Senior Official for Cybersecurity for the Government of Canada. With a career spanning 33 years at the Communication Security Establishment (CSE), Khoury shares how a coincidental job application blossomed into a lifelong passion for national security. Khoury emphasizes that modern…
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‘Zero Disco’ campaign hits legacy Cisco switches with fileless rootkit payloads
Effects beyond one-time infection: According to Trend Micro, the campaign affected specific Cisco families, including 9400, 9300, and legacy 3750G switches. Affected organizations face more than a one-off compromise as infected switches can provide attackers a long-term, stealthy platform for lateral movement, data interception, or further payload delivery.Parts of the exploit are fileless or volatile,…
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Beyond the checklist: Building adaptive GRC frameworks for agentic AI
Tags: access, ai, breach, ciso, cloud, compliance, control, crime, data, detection, endpoint, finance, framework, fraud, governance, grc, international, metric, monitoring, nist, risk, risk-management, strategy, supply-chain, switchAutonomous agent drift First, I experienced an autonomous agent drift that nearly caused a severe financial and reputational crisis. We deployed a sophisticated agent tasked with optimizing our cloud spending and resource allocation across three regions, giving it a high degree of autonomy. Its original mandate was clear, but after three weeks of self-learning and…
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TDL 006 – Beyond the Firewall: How Attackers Weaponize Your DNS
Tags: access, attack, breach, business, cisa, ciso, computer, conference, control, cyber, data, data-breach, dns, exploit, firewall, google, government, group, guide, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, iraq, jobs, leak, malicious, malware, network, phishing, ransomware, service, software, switch, threat, tool, windowsSummary Beyond the Firewall: How Attackers Weaponize Your DNS For many IT professionals, DNS is the internet’s invisible plumbing, historically managed by a “guy with a Unix beard in the basement,” as Infoblox educator Josh Kuo recalled on the Defenders Log podcast. But this foundational, often overlooked, protocol has become a primary vector for sophisticated…
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Zorin OS 18 beta makes Linux look like anything but Linux
Windows, macOS, Cinnamon, even iPadOS all just a layout switch away First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/09/24/zorin_os_18_beta/
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Service Accounts in Active Directory: These OG NHIs Could Be Your Weakest Link
While non-human identities (NHIs) in cloud and SaaS operations may be getting lots of attention right now, securing your Active Directory service accounts can go a long way in reducing risk. Here are three steps you can take right now. Key takeaways Expect sprawl: Agentic AI and cloud native development accelerate non-human identity (NHI) growth. …
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Russian Airline Hit by Cyberattack, Website and Systems Disrupted
Russian regional carrier KrasAvia is grappling with a major IT outage after what appears to be a cyberattack. Passengers have been unable to buy tickets online, and flight operations have been forced to switch to manual procedures. The airline confirmed the disruption to local media but has not provided a timeline for restoring normal service.…
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New ransomware Yurei adopts open-source tools for double-extortion campaigns
Tags: access, attack, authentication, backup, breach, ciso, cloud, control, data, edr, extortion, flaw, intelligence, Internet, mfa, network, open-source, phishing, powershell, ransomware, resilience, risk, service, switch, threat, tool, windowsBigger risks beyond downtime: The double-extortion ransomware appears to be an early version, as it has loopholes. Ransomware often targets and deletes shadow copies to block victims from using Windows’ built-in recovery options. But Yurei did not delete the shadow copies, which, if enabled, can allow the victim to restore their files to a previous…
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Wie realistisch ist der Kill Switch? – Können die USA Europa den Stecker ziehen?
First seen on security-insider.de Jump to article: www.security-insider.de/us-kill-switch-europa-digitale-souveraenitaet-a-626d158e1c8ba1883eb0cc03ea2af5b5/
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TDL001 – Cybersecurity Explained: Privacy, Threats, and the Future – Chester Wisniewski
Tags: access, ai, attack, backdoor, breach, business, ciso, computer, country, crime, crimes, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data-breach, defense, detection, edr, email, finance, firewall, gartner, government, guide, hacker, hacking, Hardware, infosec, Internet, jobs, linkedin, mail, malicious, microsoft, military, monitoring, network, password, phishing, phone, privacy, programming, ransomware, risk, russia, scam, skills, software, sophos, spam, sql, strategy, switch, technology, threat, update, virus, vulnerability, wifi, windowsSummary “The Defenders Log” Episode 1 features host David Redekop and guest Chet Wisniewski discussing the dynamic world of cybersecurity. Wisniewski, with decades of experience, traces his journey from early BBS and phone network exploration to becoming a cybersecurity expert. They delve into the evolution of hacking, the emergence of profitable cybercrime like email spam,…
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TDL003 – Breaking Barriers: IPv6 Adoption and DNS Transformation with Tommy Jensen
Tags: access, ai, apple, attack, backup, banking, browser, business, ceo, chrome, ciso, compliance, computer, computing, control, country, credentials, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, ddos, dns, encryption, endpoint, google, government, group, international, Internet, jobs, law, microsoft, mobile, network, phishing, phone, privacy, programming, radius, risk, service, smishing, strategy, switch, technology, threat, update, vpn, windows, zero-trustSummary This episode of the Defender’s Log features special guest Tommy Jensen, an internet technologist specializing in IPv6, Zero Trust, and standards. Jensen’s career path, from an AppleCare contractor to a key figure in advancing internet technologies, is explored. The discussion highlights the critical importance and challenges of migrating to IPv6 and the necessity of…
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Developer Sentenced to Four Years for Sabotaging Employer’s Systems
Davis Lu was convicted in March of deploying malicious code in the systems of his employer, Eaton, when his job responsibilities change and then deployed a kill switch that denied employees access to the systems when he was fired in 2019. He was sentenced this month to four years in prison. First seen on securityboulevard.com…
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Chinese Hacker Sentenced for Kill Switch Attack on Ohio Firm’s Global Network
A federal court has handed down a four-year prison term to a former software developer who sabotaged his employer’s global network with a custom “kill switch,” crippling operations and inflicting hundreds of thousands in losses. Davis Lu, 55, a Chinese national legally residing and working in Houston, was sentenced on August 21 by U.S. District…
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Windows Security Update turns smooth NDI streams into jittery messes
Users told to switch protocols or delay installation while Redmond investigates First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/08/22/windows_update_ndi/