CISA published an insight document for critical infrastructure organizations to prepare for the transition to new post-quantum cryptography standards that NIST will announce soon.
Cyber Security
Cyber criminals, state-sponsored hackers and even the occasional disgruntled employee are constantly looking to gain unauthorized access for a variety of purposes: theft of money, cyber espionage, personal information for sale or for use in scams, and damage to critical infrastructure for just a few of the most common.
So how does an organization mitigate an entire world full of continual cyber attacks? Just as buildings have a number of necessary elements of physical security: access control, cameras, alarms and so on; there are similar key elements of cyber security that are absolutely vital for just about any modern business.
It starts with identifying and closing the most common doors that attackers use. For example, phishing attacks on employees are far and away the most common initial point of entry. The breach of even a low-level employee account can quickly turn into an escalation in access privileges and the ability to reach sensitive information. This is also true of smart devices, which are generally more poorly secured than computers and phones.
From 2017 to 2020 the edtech company experienced four serious data breaches, and the FTC finds that this was not simply a run of bad luck but rather an endemic lack of concern for cybersecurity.
Security researchers have found over 35,000 code repositories with malicious forks or clones leading back to a single source. Malware in the tainted code repositories is designed to steal environment variables, stored elements that serve as authentication for various online services.
Sprint claims recent data breach will not cause risk to fraud or identify theft but the compromised customer information could lead to SIM swap attacks and allow attackers to take over victim’s accounts.
For IT and security teams, the dramatic increase in demand for applications and digital services, coupled with these heightened expectations for flawless application performance, creates a huge challenge.
Hackers injected trojan code into the Roblox scripts by compromising the Synapse X engine, allowing them to install DLL libraries capable of breaking applications and destroying data.
The idea of continuously verifying access rather than assuming trust is more relevant than ever, but the challenge is that many organizations implemented Zero Trust as a fixed framework in environments that have since become highly dynamic.
Huawei’s dream of becoming a leader in 5G networks remains on hold as new study found many of its employees had prior links to Chinese intelligence and worked in projects eavesdropping on citizens or scooping up valuable data.
TLS certificates enable a website to offer an encrypted https:// connection to visitors. Many Russian businesses have found themselves placed on sanctions lists due to the sweeping actions taken by Western nations and cannot renew them.
With client-side security and JavaScript-related attacks staring us in the face these days, a probable question that many business owners or developers may ask is, “Can I truly determine if a third-party script is secure or not?”










