Category: HelpnetSecurity

18
Aug
2023

Reinventing OT security for dynamic landscapes

From understanding the challenges of disparate OT protocols and the increasing convergence with IT to grappling with the monumental role…

18
Aug
2023

New infosec products of the week: August 18, 2023

Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from Action1, MongoDB, Bitdefender, SentinelOne and…

18
Aug
2023

30% of phishing threats involve newly registered domains

Phishing remains the most dominant and fastest growing internet crime, largely due to the ubiquity of email and the ceaseless…

18
Aug
2023

Federal agencies gear up for zero trust executive order deadline

Federal agencies are prepared to meet the zero trust executive order requirements from the Biden Administration with just over a…

17
Aug
2023

Phishers use QR codes to target companies in various industries

A phishing campaign using QR codes has been detected targeting various industries, with the aim to acquire Microsoft credentials. “The…

17
Aug
2023

The road ahead for ecommerce fraud prevention

Ecommerce platforms are incorporating sophisticated fraud detection measures, but fraudsters, too, are refining their strategies. In this Help Net Security…

17
Aug
2023

Heavy workloads driving IT professionals to resign

A quarter of IT professionals are seriously contemplating leaving their current jobs within the next six months, potentially costing US…

17
Aug
2023

Findlargedir: Find all “blackhole” directories with a huge amount of filesystem entries

Findlargedir is a tool written to help quickly identify “black hole” directories on any filesystem having more than 100k entries…

16
Aug
2023

LinkedIn users targeted in account hijacking campaign

LinkedIn users are being targeted in an ongoing account hijacking campaign, are getting locked out of their accounts; the hacked…

16
Aug
2023

(Re)check your patched NetScaler ADC and Gateway appliances for signs of compromise

Administrators of Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway appliances should check for evidence of installed webshells even if they implemented fixes…

16
Aug
2023

Ivanti Avalanche vulnerable to attack by unauthenticated, remote attackers (CVE-2023-32560)

Two stack-based buffer overflow bugs (collectively designated as CVE-2023-32560) have been discovered in Ivanti Avalanche, an enterprise mobility management solution….

16
Aug
2023

Why the “voluntary AI commitments” extracted by the White House are nowhere near enough

Representatives from Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI recently convened at the White House for a meeting with…