Cybersecurity

Commissioned by Trend Micro, The Ponemon Institute conducted the CRI survey to measure business risk based on the difference between organizations’ current security posture and their likelihood of attack, with the goal of helping CISOs and their teams better assess, protect, detect, respond, and recover from serious cyber threats. The survey will be issued twice…

This article talks about how the DHS is not reducing their efforts to stop the interference in elections. But that they are in fact "doubling down" on it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-cybersecurity-202/2019/02/15/the-cybersecurity-202-we-re-doubling-down-dhs-insists-it-s-not-reducing-election-security-efforts/5c65b46d1b326b71858c6b91/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.7b4708380cb6

Wordfence, distributors of the WP Cost Estimation and Payment Forms Builder plugin have been reporting exploits via this plugin placing backdoors to WP sites. (Security Week) https://www.securityweek.com/hackers-target-wordpress-sites-wp-cost-estimation-plugin

In current times new ways to prevent future hacks and manipulation / deletion of data. The article elaborates on; Big data, Machine learning, and block chain and what they do / mean. https://www.windpowerengineering.com/business-news-projects/how-big-data-machine-learning-may-help-companies-prevent-cyber-breaches/

https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/14/18224702/coffee-meets-bagel-data-breach-valentines-day The company running the dating app Coffee meets Bagel sent out an email today that some of their users personal information may have been breached. The timing(on Valentine's Day) is ironic and the company stated that if you had used the app before May 2018 you likely had some personal information leaked which included…

A former Intelligence agent for the US was found to be leaking classified information to Iran, and helping hackers. https://thehackernews.com/2019/02/iran-hacker-wanted-fbi.html

https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/89851-study-on-electric-grid-resiliency-finds-urgent-need-for-cybersecurity-investments

https://techhq.com/2019/02/email-provider-vfemail-suffers-catastrophic-cyber-attack/

The Xiaomi M365 electric scooter has a security vulnerability that attackers can use to take full control of the scooter's acceleration and deceleration capabilities, launch DDoS attacks over bluetooth which the scooter uses. These attacks can be carried out up to 100 meters away. Link- https://threatpost.com/xiaomi-m365-scooter-hack/141731/

24 people allegedly involved in a 13 million Turkish lra ($2.47 million) hack from an unarmed crypto firm in istanbul. https://cointelegraph.com/news/turkish-police-arrest-24-suspects-involved-in-hacking-crypto-firm-local-media-reports

"Given the emotions, it is no surprise that romance scam losses, averaging $2,600 each, are seven times greater than most other frauds,”

Not all cyber security attacks are targeted. Business owners supposedly don't get involved with cyber security because it's too complex for them. Neither true. Some things that people believe cause cyber security attacks because they don't see them as being good targets https://www.zdnet.com/article/two-cyber-security-myths-you-need-to-forget-right-now-if-you-want-to-stop-the-hackers/

Dirty Sock vulnerability lets attackers gain root access on Linux systems https://www.zdnet.com/article/dirty-sock-vulnerability-lets-attackers-gain-root-access-on-linux-systems/

Trickbot has created a variant that swipes credentials for various remote access services. https://www.scmagazine.com/home/security-news/trickbot-variant-steals-credentials-for-remote-computer-access/

VALLETTA (Reuters) - Bank of Valletta which accounts for almost half of Malta’s banking transactions, had to shut down all of its operations on Wednesday after hackers broke into its systems and shifted funds overseas. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bank-valetta-cyber/cyber-attack-on-malta-bank-tried-to-transfer-cash-abroad-idUSKCN1Q21KZ

Hackers and their tactics are continually evolving but one thing remains the same: retailers are prime targets for a cyber-attack. This is such a widespread issue that in nearly every cyber-security report in the past few years retail is the industry topping the list for attacked organisations. Given this, along with the sheer volume of…

A nasty virus has been discovered to attack Mac users through a Windows executable file. Found by various pirating websites, the malware uses Mono to cross-platform and execute on the targeted Mac machine, bypassing the computers' Gatekeeper, and stealing processor-related information. Although it is a Windows executable file, it will not run on Windows because…

https://www.securityweek.com/windows-app-caught-running-mac-installing-malware MacOS safeguards that prevents .exe files running on the OS gets through using Gatekeeper. Gatekeeper only takes into account of the Mac-only extension, thus bypassing it.

Retailers are big targets for hackers, and is the most commonly attacked industry. Consumer's personal information and payment credentials are very valuable to a hacker. https://www.forbes.com/sites/danpitman1/2019/02/12/cyber-security-risk-in-retail-and-how-to-handle-it/#2beda11549a0

While automobiles have been as vulnerable as other connected devices, the incidence of hacks has increased greatly. It has gotten so bad that the FBI has issued a warning about it. Also new standards have been published for autonomous vehicles. new measures are being put into place to detect problems and defend the cars. it's…