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Lens Maker Hoya Scrambling to Restore Systems Following Cyberattack

Security Week - Fri, 04/05/2024 - 5:41am

Japanese lens maker Hoya says production processes and ordering systems were disrupted by a cyberattack.

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Ivanti CEO Vows Cybersecurity Makeover After Zero-Day Blitz

Security Week - Thu, 04/04/2024 - 2:22pm

Ivanti releases a carefully scripted YouTube video and an open letter from chief executive Jeff Abbott vowing to fix the entire security organization.

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Cyberattack Causes Disruptions at Omni Hotels

Security Week - Thu, 04/04/2024 - 9:37am

Omni Hotels & Resorts tells customers that recent disruptions have been caused by a cyberattack that forced it to shut down systems.

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US Cancer Center Data Breach Impacting 800,000

Security Week - Thu, 04/04/2024 - 8:47am

City of Hope is notifying 800,000 individuals of a data breach impacting their personal and health information.

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Critical Vulnerability in Progress Flowmon Allows Remote Access to Systems

Security Week - Thu, 04/04/2024 - 8:23am

A critical OS command injection in Progress Flowmon can be exploited to gain remote, unauthenticated access to the system.

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Cloud Threat Detection Firm Permiso Raises $18 million

Security Week - Thu, 04/04/2024 - 8:09am

Cloud security firm provides a detection platform able to detect and predict the likely behavior of ‘bad’ identities.

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SurveyLama Data Breach Impacts 4.4 Million Users

Security Week - Thu, 04/04/2024 - 8:09am

Data breach impacting users’ personal information prompts survey rewards platform SurveyLama to reset passwords.

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Pixel Phone Zero-Days Exploited by Forensic Firms

Security Week - Thu, 04/04/2024 - 7:59am

Google this week patched two Pixel phone zero-day vulnerabilities actively exploited by forensic companies to obtain data from devices.

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New HTTP/2 DoS Attack Potentially More Severe Than Record-Breaking Rapid Reset

Security Week - Thu, 04/04/2024 - 6:50am

New HTTP/2 DoS method named Continuation Flood can pose a greater risk than Rapid Reset, which has been used for record-breaking attacks.

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Microsoft’s Security Chickens Have Come Home to Roost

Security Week - Thu, 04/04/2024 - 6:00am

News analysis:  SecurityWeek editor-at-large Ryan Naraine reads the CSRB report on China's audacious Microsoft’s Exchange Online hack and isn't at all surprised by the findings.

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Zoom Paid Out $10 Million via Bug Bounty Program Since 2019

Security Week - Thu, 04/04/2024 - 6:00am

Video conferencing giant Zoom has paid out $10 million through its bug bounty program since it was launched in 2019.

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Number of Chinese Devices in US Networks Growing Despite Bans

Security Week - Wed, 04/03/2024 - 10:27am

An analysis by Forescout shows 300,000 Chinese devices in the US, up 40% compared to the previous year, despite bans.

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Know Your Audience When Speaking to Security Practitioners

Security Week - Wed, 04/03/2024 - 9:54am

How can security practitioners make sense of the vendor landscape and separate those who talk a good game from those who can execute, perform, and solve real problems for enterprises?

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CVE and NVD – A Weak and Fractured Source of Vulnerability Truth

Security Week - Wed, 04/03/2024 - 9:43am

MITRE is unable to compile a list of all new vulnerabilities, and NIST is unable to subsequently, and consequently, provide an enriched database of all vulnerabilities. What went wrong, and what can be done?

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Scathing Federal Report Rips Microsoft for Shoddy Security, Insincerity in Response to Chinese Hack

Security Week - Wed, 04/03/2024 - 9:08am

Cyber Safety Review Board, said “a cascade of errors” by Microsoft let state-backed Chinese cyber operators break into email accounts of senior U.S. officials.

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Critical Vulnerability Found in LayerSlider Plugin Installed on a Million WordPress Sites

Security Week - Wed, 04/03/2024 - 8:27am

A critical SQL injection vulnerability in the LayerSlider WordPress plugin allows attackers to extract sensitive information.

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Missouri County Hit by Ransomware

Security Week - Wed, 04/03/2024 - 8:01am

Jackson County, Missouri, discloses ‘significant disruptions’ to IT systems, says ransomware attack likely at fault.

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Google Patches Chrome Flaw That Earned Hackers $42,500 at Pwn2Own

Security Week - Wed, 04/03/2024 - 6:39am

Google pushes a new Chrome update to patch another zero-day vulnerability demonstrated at a hacking contest.

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XZ Utils Backdoor Attack Brings Another Similar Incident to Light

Security Week - Wed, 04/03/2024 - 6:23am

The discovery of the XZ Utils backdoor reminds an F-Droid developer of a similar incident that occurred a few years ago.

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Google Patches Exploited Pixel Vulnerabilities

Security Week - Wed, 04/03/2024 - 5:43am

Google patches 28 vulnerabilities in Android and 25 bugs in Pixel devices, including two flaws exploited in the wild.

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