Amazon Web Services (AWS) is hosting its re:Inforce 2022 conference these days and the cloud giant has taken the opportunity to unveil several enhancements to its security offerings.
Security, privacy, compliance and identity
European Lawmaker Targeted With Cytrox Predator Surveillance Spyware
A security audit by the European Parliament has unearthed attempts to plant high-end surveillance software on the phone of a Greek lawmaker and there are fresh reports linking the hack attempt to a known North Macedonia spyware vendor.
Understanding the Evolution of Cybercrime to Predict its Future
An analysis of the evolution of cybercrime from its beginnings in the 1990s to its billion-dollar presence today has one overriding theme: the development of cybercrime as a business closely mimics the evolution of legitimate business, and will continue to evolve to improve its own ROI.
Moussouris: U.S. Should Resist Urge to Match China Vuln Reporting Mandate
A prominent cybersecurity executive is calling on the U.S. government to resist the urge to match China’s reported mandates around early vulnerability disclosure, warning that such a move would “meaningfully and dramatically increase the risk” of zero-day flaws landing in the wrong hands.
Microsoft Releases Open Source Toolkit for Generating SBOMs
Software giant Microsoft has open-sourced its internal tool for generating SBOMs (software bill of materials) as part of a move to help organizations be more transparent about supply chain relationships between components used when building a software product.
Microsoft Patch Tuesday: 84 Windows Vulns, Including Already-Exploited Zero-Day
Microsoft has issued an urgent Patch Tuesday bulletin to warn of in-the-wild zero-day exploitation of a privilege escalation flaw in the Windows operating system.
Adobe Patch Tuesday: Critical Flaws in Acrobat, Reader, Photoshop
Software maker Adobe has rolled out a major security update for its flagship Acrobat and Reader products to fix at least 22 documented vulnerabilities, some serious enough to cause arbitrary code execution attacks.
Free Decryptors Released for AstraLocker Ransomware
Cybersecurity firm Emsisoft has released free decryptor tools for AstraLocker, a “smash-and-grab” ransomware family that was recently retired.
Election Officials Face Security Challenges Before Midterms
Election officials preparing for the upcoming midterms face a myriad of threats, both foreign and domestic, as they look to protect voting systems and run a smooth election while fighting a wave of misinformation that has been undermining public confidence in U.S. elections.
OpenSSL Patches Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
OpenSSL has issued an urgent advisory to warn of a memory corruption vulnerability that exposes servers to remote code execution attacks.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-2274, was introduced in OpenSSL 3.0.4 and could potentially allow malicious hackers to launch remote code attacks on unpatched SSL/TLS server side devices.
