Cybersecurity
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Oct 03, 2023The Hacker NewsNetwork Security / XDR / SIEM Security Configuration Assessment (SCA) is critical to an organization’s cybersecurity strategy. SCA aims to discover vulnerabilities and misconfigurations that malicious actors exploit to gain unauthorized access to systems and data. Regular security configuration assessments are essential in maintaining a secure and compliant environment, as this […]
Cybercriminals launched approximately 7.9 million DDoS attacks in 1H 2023, representing a 31% year-over-year increase, according to NETSCOUT. Global events like the Russia-Ukraine war and NATO bids have driven recent DDoS attack growth. Finland was targeted by pro-Russian hacktivists in 2022 during its bid to join NATO. Turkey and Hungary were targeted with DDoS attacks […]
New regulations that went into effect on Sunday aim to make it more difficult to hack into medical devices by requiring vendors to beef up the security features of things like pacemakers and insulin pumps before they make it onto the market. The regulations from the Food and Drug Administration mandate that vendors of medical […]
Chalk is a free, open-source tool that helps improve software security. You add a single line to your build script, and it will automatically collect and inject metadata into every build artifact: source code, binaries, and containers. Gaining visibility Chalk enables complete visibility across the development process, from the first time a developer creates the […]
Oct 03, 2023THNCyber Attack / Vulnerability Arm has released security patches to contain a security flaw in the Mali GPU Kernel Driver that has come under active exploitation in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2023-4211, the shortcoming impacts the following driver versions – Midgard GPU Kernel Driver: All versions from r12p0 – r32p0 Bifrost GPU Kernel […]
Firewall and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack prevention mechanisms in Cloudflare can be circumvented by exploiting gaps in cross-tenant security controls, defeating the very purpose of these safeguards, it has emerged. “Attackers can utilize their own Cloudflare accounts to abuse the per-design trust-relationship between Cloudflare and the customers’ websites, rendering the protection mechanism ineffective,” Certitude researcher […]
Governance & Risk Management , Managed Detection & Response (MDR) , Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) MSSP, MDR Provider Lost Nearly 75% of Value During 8+ Years of Singtel Ownership Michael Novinson (MichaelNovinson) • October 2, 2023 A private equity affiliate of ex-Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff’s advisory firm has agreed to purchase […]
A school district in Virginia has managed to keep classrooms open despite facing an attack from a notorious Russian ransomware gang. Fauquier County Public Schools runs 20 elementary, middle and high schools for more than 11,200 students. The county is about an hour from Washington D.C. A spokesperson for the district confirmed to Recorded Future […]
One of the vulnerabilities allows remote unauthenticated attackers to execute code in the context of the service account. The other two vulnerabilities patched include a remote code execution bug and an information disclosure issue.