Hacker Group Names Are Now Absurdly Out of Control

Hackers, particularly state-sponsored and organized cybercriminals, wreak havoc worldwide. However, their aliases, such as Fancy Bear and Refined Kitten, often undermine the seriousness of their actions, Wired argues. Microsoft’s cybersecurity division…

The Value of a Collaborative Security Community

Security has become a C-suite topic, a business problem, and that has prompted organizations of all sizes to dedicate resources to improve security resiliency and to prepare for a breach. Cisco is helping tackle some of these problems by taking a risk-based approach. Looking at the threat, the vulnerability, the probability, and the impact of a threat or threats, and then fortifying defenses, operations, and continuity plans accordingly.

Russian cybercrime group likely behind ongoing exploitation of PaperCut flaws

Print management software provider PaperCut confirmed ongoing active exploitation of CVE-2023-27350 vulnerability. On April 19th, Print management software provider PaperCut confirmed that it is aware of the active exploitation of the CVE-2023-27350 vulnerability. The company received two vulnerability reports from the cybersecurity firm Trend Micro) for high/critical severity security issues in PaperCut MF/NG.  Trend Micro announced they will […]

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Hackers can hack organizations using data found on their discarded enterprise network equipment

ESET researchers explained that enterprise network equipment that was discarded, but not destroyed, could reveal corporate secrets. ESET researchers purchased a few used routers to set up a test environment and made a shocking discovery, in many cases, previously used configurations had not been wiped. The experts pointed out that the data they found on […]

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Experts spotted first-ever crypto mining campaign leveraging Kubernetes RBAC

Experts warn of a large-scale cryptocurrency mining campaign exploiting Kubernetes (K8s) Role-Based Access Control (RBAC). Cloud security firm Aqua discovered a large-scale cryptocurrency mining campaign exploiting Kubernetes (K8s) Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) to create backdoors and run miners. The campaign was tracked as RBAC Buster, the experts reported that the attacks are actively targeting at […]

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Tesla Swerves on Interstate Into Truck and Kills Its Driver

An innocent truck driver has been killed by Tesla. Initial reports indicate the latest software release is abruptly launching Teslas like missiles across lanes into other vehicles traveling in the same direction. Recently I reported on Tesla software v…

Incident Response Policy

This policy from TechRepublic Premium provides information on defining an incident, assigning an incident response team, documenting a plan and conducting a response. It can be customized to meet the needs of your organization. Featured text from the p…