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Microsoft Confirms Exploited Zero-Day in Windows Management …
Ryan Naraine. October 8, 2024. Microsoft issued an urgent warning on Tuesday about an actively exploited code execution vulnerability in a Windows component used for system configuration and monitoring. The zero-day, tagged as CVE-2024-43572, is documented as a remote code execution issue in Microsoft Management Console (MMC), an oft-targeted ...
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Recent Veeam Vulnerability Exploited in Ransomware Attacks
October 11, 2024. Ransomware operators are exploiting a critical-severity vulnerability in Veeam Backup & Replication to create rogue accounts and deploy malware, Sophos warns. The issue, tracked as CVE-2024-40711 (CVSS score of 9.8), can be exploited remotely, without authentication, for arbitrary code execution, and was patched in early ...
Improving SecOps: How Simplification, Visibility, and Analytics Can ...
Oct 9, 2024 · Increasing visibility, particularly in hybrid and multicloud environments, is necessary. Empowering analysis and improving analytics can facilitate security investigations. Let’s dive in and have a closer look at each of these three points. Simplifying Complexity. Simplifying complexity is a topic most of us hear about regularly in the ...
CISO Salary Surge: Fewer Job Changes, Bigger Paychecks for …
Oct 3, 2024 · Experience is also important. “Two-thirds of CISOs with top-quartile compensation have at least eight years’ tenure, 69% have held the top security job at multiple companies and 61% have cross-industry experience,” notes the report.. “Our CISO compensation analysis found tenured CISOs (with eight to 15 years of CISO experience) who held CISO or senior security leader positions at more ...
Kaspersky, Pango Respond to User Backlash as Transition to …
Sep 27, 2024 · The transition kicked off on September 17, roughly two weeks after Kaspersky announced an agreement with Pango Group to take over its US user base following a ban and sanctions, and move it to UltraAV. The deal was struck as result of a long-standing relationship between the two companies, part of which involved Kaspersky licensing a Pango ...
Johnson Controls Ransomware Attack: Data Theft Confirmed, Cost …
February 1, 2024. Building technology giant Johnson Controls confirmed this week that the September 2023 ransomware attack resulted in the theft of data and the company said expenses associated with the incident exceed $27 million. In an SEC filing detailing its financial results for the last quarter of 2023, the company said the attack was ...
Hacktivism: What’s in a Name… It May be More Than You Expect
Nov 27, 2023 · It May be More Than You Expect. Hacktivism is evolving. It is important for both the law and cyber defenders to understand the current and potential activity of hacktivism to better understand how it should be treated. All hacktivists should be treated as if they are malicious hackers because the distance between hacking/activism, malevolence ...
In Other News: China Making Big Claims, ConfusedPilot AI Attack ...
Oct 18, 2024 · Chinese researchers break encryption using quantum computing. Chinese researchers reportedly managed to break a widely used encryption method using quantum computing, which “poses a ‘real and substantial threat’ to password-protection mechanisms employed across critical sectors,” according to Chinese media. However, Avesta Hojjati, head of R&D at DigiCert, told SecurityWeek that the ...