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CISA Warns of Actively Exploited Apache Flink Security Vulnerability

By: Newsroom β€” May 23rd 2024 at 16:44
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a security flaw impacting Apache Flink, an open-source, unified stream-processing and batch-processing framework, to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. Tracked as CVE-2020-17519, the issue relates to a case of improper access control that
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Windows 11 to Deprecate NTLM, Add AI-Powered App Controls and Security Defenses

By: Newsroom β€” May 21st 2024 at 09:02
 Microsoft on Monday confirmed its plans to deprecate NT LAN Manager (NTLM) in Windows 11 in the second half of the year, as it announced a slew of new security measures to harden the widely-used desktop operating system. "Deprecating NTLM has been a huge ask from our security community as it will strengthen user authentication, and deprecation is planned in the second half of 2024," the
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New XM Cyber Research: 80% of Exposures from Misconfigurations, Less Than 1% from CVEs

By: The Hacker News β€” May 17th 2024 at 11:29
A new report from XM Cyber has found – among other insights - a dramatic gap between where most organizations focus their security efforts, and where the most serious threats actually reside. The new report, Navigating the Paths of Risk: The State of Exposure Management in 2024, is based on hundreds of thousands of attack path assessments conducted by the XM Cyber
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Timing is Everything: The Role of Just-in-Time Privileged Access in Security Evolution

By: The Hacker News β€” April 15th 2024 at 10:21
To minimize the risk of privilege misuse, a trend in the privileged access management (PAM) solution market involves implementing just-in-time (JIT) privileged access. This approach to privileged identity management aims to mitigate the risks associated with prolonged high-level access by granting privileges temporarily and only when necessary, rather than providing users with
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U.S. Cyber Safety Board Slams Microsoft Over Breach by China-Based Hackers

By: Newsroom β€” April 3rd 2024 at 15:32
The U.S. Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) has criticized Microsoft for a series of security lapses that led to the breach of nearly two dozen companies across Europe and the U.S. by a China-based nation-state group called Storm-0558 last year. The findings, released by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Tuesday, found that the intrusion was preventable, and that it became successful
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New Silver SAML Attack Evades Golden SAML Defenses in Identity Systems

By: Newsroom β€” February 29th 2024 at 15:21
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new attack technique called Silver SAML that can be successful even in cases where mitigations have been applied against Golden SAML attacks. Silver SAML β€œenables the exploitation of SAML to launch attacks from an identity provider like Entra ID against applications configured to use it for authentication, such as Salesforce,” Semperis
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Microsoft Expands Free Logging Capabilities for all U.S. Federal Agencies

By: Newsroom β€” February 24th 2024 at 11:49
Microsoft has expanded free logging capabilities to all U.S. federal agencies using Microsoft Purview Audit irrespective of the license tier, more than six months after a China-linked cyber espionage campaign targeting two dozen organizations came to light. "Microsoft will automatically enable the logs in customer accounts and increase the default log retention period from 90 days to 180 days,"
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VMware Alert: Uninstall EAP Now - Critical Flaw Puts Active Directory at Risk

By: Newsroom β€” February 21st 2024 at 05:34
VMware is urging users to uninstall the deprecated Enhanced Authentication Plugin (EAP) following the discovery of a critical security flaw. Tracked as CVE-2024-22245 (CVSS score: 9.6), the vulnerability has been described as an arbitrary authentication relay bug. "A malicious actor could trick a target domain user with EAP installed in their web browser into requesting and relaying
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Malicious 'SNS Sender' Script Abuses AWS for Bulk Smishing Attacks

By: Newsroom β€” February 16th 2024 at 10:49
A malicious Python script known as SNS Sender is being advertised as a way for threat actors to send bulk smishing messages by abusing Amazon Web Services (AWS) Simple Notification Service (SNS). The SMS phishing messages are designed to propagate malicious links that are designed to capture victims' personally identifiable information (PII) and payment card details, SentinelOne 
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U.S. State Government Network Breached via Former Employee's Account

By: Newsroom β€” February 16th 2024 at 07:40
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has revealed that an unnamed state government organization's network environment was compromised via an administrator account belonging to a former employee. "This allowed the threat actor to successfully authenticate to an internal virtual private network (VPN) access point," the agency said in a joint advisory published
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