Improve your AWS security posture, Step 2: Avoid direct internet access to AWS resources
[ This article was originally published here ] In the in this series, we discussed setting up IAM properly. Now we’re moving on to the…
Month: January 2023
Health3PT Council unites healthcare CISOs to solve third-party cyber risk
Amid heightened threats to the nation’s healthcare systems, more than 20 leading healthcare organizations have come together to identify effective, efficient, and new innovative approaches…
Australian Healthcare Sector Targeted in Latest Gootkit Malware Attacks
Jan 11, 2023Ravie LakshmananHealthcare / Cyber Threat A wave of Gootkit malware loader attacks has targeted the Australian healthcare sector by leveraging legitimate tools like…
Should we be worried about malicious use of AI language models?
More and more evidence is emerging into how large language models, such as Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3) used by the likes of OpenAI’s advanced…
9 Million Times Downloaded JsonWebToken Flaw
During the course of investigating the popular open-source project JsonWebToken, Unit 42 researchers discovered a new vulnerability. The cybersecurity analysts tracked the flaw as CVE-2022-23529…
Threema disputes crypto flaws disclosure, prompts security flap
‘Condescending’ response to vulnerability disclosure angers infosec community Security researchers have defended academics who discovered several serious security flaws in Threema following criticism of their…
A Police App Exposed Secret Details About Raids and Suspects
Last September, law enforcement agents from five counties in Southern California coordinated an operation to investigate, raid, and arrest more than 600 suspected sex offenders.…
Hack The Box raises $55 million to expand its business
Hack The Box announces a Series B investment round of $55 million led by Carlyle, alongside Paladin Capital Group, Osage University Partners, Marathon Venture Capital,…
Microsoft fixes EoP zero-day on January Patch Tuesday
Security teams face a busy few days after Microsoft’s first monthly Patch Tuesday drop of 2023, which contains fixes for 98 distinct vulnerabilities, 11 of…
The Federal Aviation Administration Faces Computer Outage
The Federal Aviation Administration, USA, temporarily grounded US flights due to a computer outage. The flight services slowly resumed after hours of uncertainty, reported Reuters. …
Crypto audit of Threema revealed many vulnerabilities
Researchers have discovered cryptographic vulnerabilities in Swiss-based secure messaging application Threema that may have allowed attackers to do things like break authentication or recover users’…
Internet shutdowns cost global economy $24bn in 2022
The economic toll of deliberate internet shutdowns by governments reached nearly $24bn globally in 2022, following 114 major outages across 23 countries, research has found.…