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Cyber Security Monitor Alerts News Notifications. We monitor and send notifications on the latest Cyber Security alerts, blogs, news on data breaches and emerging cyber threats.
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LockFile Ransomware Uses Never-Before Seen Encryption to Avoid Detection
Researchers from Sophos discovered the emerging threat in July, which exploits the ProxyShell vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange servers to attack systems. Read more
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HPE Warns Sudo Bug Gives Attackers Root Privileges to Aruba Platform
HPE joins Apple in warning customers of a high-severity Sudo vulnerability. Read more
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Microsoft Exchange ‘ProxyToken’ Bug Allows Email Snooping
The bug (CVE-2021-33766) is an information-disclosure issue that could reveal victims’ personal information, sensitive company data and more. Read more
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Vulnerability Summary for the Week of August 23, 2021
Original release date: August 30, 2021 High Vulnerabilities Primary Vendor — Product Description Published CVSS Score Source & Patch Info adobe — bridge Adobe Bridge version 11.0.2 (and earlier) are affected by a Heap-based Buffer overflow vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to achieve arbitrary code execution in the context of the… Read more
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CISA Adds Single-Factor Authentication to list of Bad Practices
Original release date: August 30, 2021 Today, CISA added the use of single-factor authentication for remote or administrative access systems to our Bad Practices list of exceptionally risky cybersecurity practices. Single-factor authentication is a common low-security method of authentication. It only requires matching one factor—such as a password—to a username to gain access to a system.… Read more
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Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB Guidance
Original release date: August 27, 2021 CISA is aware of a misconfiguration vulnerability in Microsoft’s Azure Cosmos DB that may have exposed customer data. Although the misconfiguration appears to have been fixed within the Azure cloud, CISA strongly encourages Azure Cosmos DB customers to roll and regenerate their certificate keys and to review Microsoft’s guidance… Read more
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Winning the Cyber-Defense Race: Understand the Finish Line
Kerry Matre, Mandiant senior director, clears up misconceptions about the value to business for enterprise cyber-defense. Hint: It’s not achieving visibility. Read more
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Parallels Offers ‘Inconvenient’ Fix for High-Severity Bug
Firm offers guidance on how to mitigate a five-months-old privilege escalation bug impacting Parallels Desktop 16 for Mac and all previous versions. Read more
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Critical Azure Cosmos DB Bug Allows Full Cloud Account Takeover
It’s unclear if Microsoft customers were breached during the months-long period where the #ChaosDB bug in Jupyter Notebooks was exploitable. Read more
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FBI Releases Indicators of Compromise Associated with Hive Ransomware
Original release date: August 27, 2021 The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has released a Flash report detailing indicators of compromise (IOCs) and tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) associated with ransomware attacks by Hive, a likely Ransomware-as-a-Service organization consisting of a number of actors using multiple mechanisms to compromise business networks, exfiltrate data and encrypt… Read more