Monday, November 2, 2020

How to Develop Your Cybersecurity Skills – Marie Ketner – BSW #194

Marie Ketner from Cybrary joins BSW to discuss how to develop your cybersecurity skills to address your key use cases, including:

1. Skills Development
2. On-boarding
3. Industry Certifications
4. Career Paths

This segment is sponsored by Cybrary.

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Lax IoT, Adobe Flash Croaks, Link Preview Vulns, & Security Theatre! – ASW #128

Lax IoT security exposes smart-irrigation systems, Adobe Flash goes truly end of line in one last update, confidential computing gets a turbo boost with Nitro, link previews show security and privacy problems, and security theatre gets an encore!

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Lax IoT, Adobe Flash Croaks, Link Preview Vulns, & Security Theatre! – ASW #128

Lax IoT security exposes smart-irrigation systems, Adobe Flash goes truly end of line in one last update, confidential computing gets a turbo boost with Nitro, link previews show security and privacy problems, and security theatre gets an encore!

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Show Notes: https://wiki.securityweekly.com/asw128

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Mitigating Compliance Team Turnover Costs

We’re nearing the end of the year, a time when many people start to reflect and consider changes …

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$100M Botnet Scheme Lands Cybercriminal 8 Years in Jail

Aleksandr Brovko faces jail time after stealing $100 million worth of personal identifiable information (PII) and financial data over the course of more than 10 years.
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Survey: Cybersecurity Skills Shortage is ‘Bad,’ But There’s Hope

Automation, strategic process design and an investment in training are the keys to managing the cybersecurity skills gap, according to a recent survey from Trustwave.
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How Does HTTPS Work?

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We all know that HTTPS = secure. But do you know how HTTPS works under the hood? Let’s take a look at how HTTPS works to make the internet safer…

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Azure App Service & Cloud-Native Signal Sciences Deployments – Alfred Chung – ASW #128

Discussing what enterprises have to do while adapting legacy apps in to Azure, while doing in a secure, steady way without leaving any gaps. Signal Sciences site extension makes sure your apps are covered across the board, and will protect any app in Azure.

This segment is sponsored by Signal Sciences.

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Azure App Service & Cloud-Native Signal Sciences Deployments – Alfred Chung – ASW #128

Discussing what enterprises have to do while adapting legacy apps in to Azure, while doing in a secure, steady way without leaving any gaps. Signal Sciences site extension makes sure your apps are covered across the board, and will protect any app in Azure.

This segment is sponsored by Signal Sciences.

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Alert AA20-302A: Federal agencies warn about ransomware attacks targeting hospitals

“We have credible information of an increased and imminent cybercrime threat to U.S. hospitals and healthcare providers.” – FBI, CISA, and HHS

 A cybersecurity bulletin was released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency …

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Cryptocurrency: Fact vs. Fiction

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Paul Lee is the CISO of Uphold, a leading technology platform to trade between cryptocurrencies, precious metals and U.S. equities. Paul is considered a leading expert on blockchain and cryptocurrency. In this episode of “Cyber Heroes, Defenders of the Digital Universe,” Paul and I discuss the realities including strengths and limitations of cryptocurrency in general..

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Windows Zero-Day Used with Chrome Flaw in Targeted Attacks

Google’s Project Zero has disclosed a Windows kernel zero-day vulnerability being used with a known Chrome bug in targeted attacks.

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Trick or treat: that `twilio-npm` package is brandjacking malware in disguise!

As if the increasing attacks on the open source ecosystem and vulnerabilities making headlines weren’t scary enough events, this Halloween devs were exposed to another malicious trick

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XKCD ‘Probability Comparisons’

via the comic delivery system monikered Randall Munroe resident at XKCD !

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New NAT/Firewall Bypass Attack Lets Hackers Access Any TCP/UDP Service

A new research has demonstrated a technique that allows an attacker to bypass firewall protection and remotely access any TCP/UDP service on a victim machine.
Called NAT Slipstreaming, the method involves sending the target a link to a malicious site (or a legitimate site loaded with malicious ads) that, when visited, ultimately triggers the gateway to open any TCP/UDP port on the victim,
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Phishers Using Google Drive to Trick People into Visiting Malicious Websites

Reports emerged of phishers having abused a feature in Google Drive in an attempt to trick users into visiting malicious websites. In this scam wave, users reported having received Google Drive notifications in Russian or English asking them to collaborate on unfamiliar documents. Those documents contained links to scam websites. Some of those links tried […]… Read More

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WARNING: Google Discloses Windows Zero-Day Bug Exploited in the Wild

Google has disclosed details of a new zero-day privilege escalation flaw in the Windows operating system that’s being actively exploited in the wild.
The elevation of privileges (EoP) vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-17087, concerns a buffer overflow present since at least Windows 7 in the Windows Kernel Cryptography Driver (“cng.sys”) that can be exploited for a sandbox escape.
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Behavioral Biometrics: People-Friendly Zero Trust

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Behavioral biometrics bring a better user experience to authentication COVID-19 may very well redefine our work, our homes, our very lives for the foreseeable future. As we near the end of 2020, 75% of employees now work from home (WFH), compared to just 25% for the prior year, with 84% of U.S. companies likely to..

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Malware, Ransomware and Everything In Between: What Happens When You Click on the Malicious Files in Your Inbox

In 2021, it is forecasted that one organization will experience a ransomware attack every 11 seconds. The plethora of security vulnerabilities within enterprises’ networks, coupled with the ease of luring employees into engaging with spear phishing emails, are primary reasons why ransomware attacks have rapidly increased. One recent attack against a food and drink manufacturer…

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What Is the R.U.D.Y. Attack

R.U.D.Y. (R-U-Dead Yet) is a denial-of-service attack tool. Unlike most DoS and DDoS attack tools, the R.U.D.Y. attack tool uses Layer 7 (it is an application layer attack). The attack technique of the R.U.D.Y. tool is very similar to the Slowloris attack. It uses slow…

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Barbary Pirates and Russian Cybercrime

In 1801, the United States had a small Navy. Thomas Jefferson deployed almost half that Navy—three frigates and a schooner—to the Barbary C...