The U.S. government’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday released the final version of its IPv6 security guidance for federal agencies.
CISA Releases Final IPv6 Security Guidance for Federal Agencies
Prolific Chinese APT Caught Using ‘MoonBounce’ UEFI Firmware Implant
Threat hunters at Kaspersky have spotted a well-known Chinese APT actor using an UEFI implant to maintain stealthy persistence across reboots, disk formatting or disk replacements.
Red Cross Falls Victim to Massive Cyberattack
The International Committee of the Red Cross was the victim of a massive cyberattack in which hackers seized the data of more than 515,000 extremely vulnerable people, some of whom had fled conflicts, it said on Wednesday.
Microsoft Edge Adds Security Mode to Thwart Malware Attacks
A new security feature in the latest beta of the Microsoft Edge browser can help protect web surfers from zero-day attacks.
Project Zero: Zoom Platform Missed ASLR Exploit Mitigation
A prominent security researcher poking around at the Zoom video conferencing platform found worrying signs the company failed to enable a decades-old anti-exploit mitigation, a blunder that greatly increased exposure to malicious hacker attacks.
Multi-Factor Authentication Bypass Led to Box Account Takeover
A vulnerability in Box’s implementation of multi-factor authentication (MFA) allowed attackers to take over victim’s accounts without having access to the victim’s phone, according to new research from Varonis.
VirusTotal Hacking Offers a Supercharged Version of Google Hacking
Chronicle’s VirusTotal (VT) is a boon to security researchers and a gift to potential criminals. Apart from virus samples it contains likely millions of user credentials readily available to anyone who knows where and how to look.
Details Published on AWS Flaws Leading to Data Leaks
Researchers at cloud security startup Orca Security have publicly documented a pair of vulnerabilities in AWS CloudFormation and AWS Glue that attackers could use to leak sensitive files or access other customers’ data.
FCC Chair Proposes New Policies for Carrier Data Breach Reporting
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel this week proposed updated policies around telecom providers’ reporting of data breaches.
Apple Patches iOS HomeKit Flaw After Researcher Warning
Apple has released an iOS security update with a fix for a persistent denial-of-service flaw in the HomeKit software framework but only after an independent researcher publicly criticized the company for ignoring his discovery.
