Cybersecurity

CISO Perspectives on Complying with Cybersecurity Regulations

Compliance requirements are meant to increase cybersecurity transparency and accountability. As cyber threats increase, so do the number of compliance frameworks and the specificity of the security controls, policies, and activities they include. For CISOs and their teams, that means compliance is a time-consuming, high-stakes process that demands strong organizational and communication skills on top […]

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New Webinar: Avoiding Application Security Blind Spots with OPSWAT and F5

Mar 28, 2024The Hacker NewsApplication Security / Webinar Considering the ever-changing state of cybersecurity, it’s never too late to ask yourself, “am I doing what’s necessary to keep my organization’s web applications secure?” The continuous evolution of technology introduces new and increasingly sophisticated threats daily, posing challenges to organizations all over the world and across […]

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CISA Warns: Hackers Actively Attacking Microsoft SharePoint Vulnerability

Mar 27, 2024NewsroomThreat Intelligence / Network Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a security flaw impacting Microsoft Sharepoint Server to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog based on evidence of active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-24955 (CVSS score: 7.2), is a critical remote code execution flaw […]

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Critical Unpatched Ray AI Platform Vulnerability Exploited for Cryptocurrency Mining

Cybersecurity researchers are warning that threat actors are actively exploiting a “disputed” and unpatched vulnerability in an open-source artificial intelligence (AI) platform called Anyscale Ray to hijack computing power for illicit cryptocurrency mining. “This vulnerability allows attackers to take over the companies’ computing power and leak sensitive data,” Oligo Security researchers Avi Lumelsky, Guy Kaplan, […]

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CISA Alerts on Active Exploitation of Flaws in Fortinet, Ivanti, and Nice Products

Mar 26, 2024NewsroomCyber Attack / Vulnerability The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday placed three security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities added are as follows – CVE-2023-48788 (CVSS score: 9.3) – Fortinet FortiClient EMS SQL Injection Vulnerability CVE-2021-44529 (CVSS score: 9.8) – […]

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Over 2,300,000 records of Family Entertainment Business Were Exposed in Data breach

Cybersecurity Researcher, Jeremiah Fowler, discovered and reported to vpnMentor about a non-password protected database that contained over 2.3 million documents belonging to Kids Empire, an US operator of recreational centers. The publicly exposed database contained 2,363,222 documents in.PDF and.PNG formats with a total size of 92.3 GB. These included reservations, injury waivers, and receipts with […]

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US Federal Budget Proposes $27.5B for Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity Spending , Government , Industry Specific Budget Proposes Incremental Increases, Not Leaps, But Small Budget Cut for CISA David Perera (@daveperera) • March 11, 2024     U.S. federal cybersecurity spending is set for billion dollar increases. (Image: Shutterstock) The Biden administration doesn’t propose huge leaps in cybersecurity funding in an annual spending blueprint […]

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Funding round secures $20M for Reach Security

California-based cybersecurity startup Reach Security has pulled in $20 million from a Series A funding round, which will be used toward the development of tools that would help organizations navigate cybersecurity solutions and strengthen network visibility, SecurityWeek reports. Reach Security, which seeks to provide insights from threat intelligence, cybersecurity product configurations, and security incidents, has touted having […]

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CISA forced to take two systems offline last month after Ivanti compromise

Hackers breached the systems of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in February through vulnerabilities in Ivanti products, officials said. A CISA spokesperson confirmed to Recorded Future News that the agency “identified activity indicating the exploitation of vulnerabilities in Ivanti products the agency uses” about a month ago. “The impact was limited to two […]