Cyberpion warns of growing cloud attack surface
Another busy Patch Tuesday will mean plenty of work for sysadmins
WatchGuard is working on some important maintenance to our services.
On 17 September 2021, starting at 11:30pm UTC WatchGuard will be performing maintenance that may cause service interruptions, as well as some small changes to the product. The duration of this maintenance is expected to last from...
T-Mobile data breach under investigation by Massachusetts attorney general Maura Healey
Israeli-British cybersecurity company to buy leading VPN provider in deal worth nearly $1bn
Each month we publish numerous new articles and known issues to the WatchGuard Knowledge Base. Here is the new content published in August:
Articles
AuthPoint quarantines users synced from Active Directory when the name of their Active Directory group is changed
Discover shows an incorrect regulato...
Suffolk County employee accused of mining Bitcoin at his workplace
Most didn’t pay the ransom and could restore from backups
In this 25 minute video I’m explaining the foundations of Web Application Security.
The video covers the basic building blocks of web applications, such as HTML, HTTP, JavaScript and Cookies. Furthermore core web applications security concepts such as the Same-Origin Policy are discussed in detail....
Imperva warns of surging threat to on-premises data troves
The vulnerability was discovered after the spyware was found on the iPhone of an anonymous Saudi activist
The first in a series of blogs to ease your journey towards a zero trust architecture.
Hackers ridiculed the state’s Republican Party and went after Texas’ new ‘Heartbeat Act’
Chinese cyber-spies reportedly breach Indonesian government ministries and agencies
Stefanutti Stocks Holdings a découvert une cyberattaque sur ses systèmes informatiques le 31 août. L'entreprise a engagé des experts externes pour enquêter sur l'incident et a fermé tous ses systèmes informatiques pour remédier à la situation. Les opérations sur les sites ne seront pas affectées, ma...
Oklahoman imprisoned for money-laundering role in multi-million-dollar lonely hearts online fraud
Cyber Readiness Institute’s managing director, Kiersten Todt, named as CISA’s new chief of staff
On Unix/Linux users with a uid=0 are root. This means any security checks are bypassed for them.
An adversary might go ahead and create a new account, or set an existing account’s user identifier (uid) or group identifier to zero.
A simple way to do this is to update /etc/passwd of an account, or us...
The move sees the Facebook-owned company offer very different user security and privacy features than Apple
Kaspersky claims spyware is growing threat to industrial systems