Computer security world in mourning over death of Dan Kaminsky, aged 42

Computer security world in mourning over death of Dan Kaminsky, aged 42

Computer security world in mourning over death of Dan Kaminsky, aged 42 | IT Security News 25. April 2021 DEF CON hails ‘an icon in all the positive ways’ Obit  Celebrated information security researcher Dan Kaminsky, known not just for his technical ability but also for his compassion and support for those in his industry,…

Facebook Disrupts Palestinian APT Activities

Facebook Disrupts Palestinian APT Activities

Cybercrime as-a-service , Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Endpoint Security Social Media Giant says 2 Groups Were Conducting Cyberespionage Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • April 25, 2021     Facebook says it has disrupted the activities of two Palestinian advanced persistent threat groups that targeted victims across the Middle East as part of cyber espionage campaigns….

Cryptomining Campaign Leverages MS Exchange Server Flaw

Cryptomining Campaign Leverages MS Exchange Server Flaw

Application Security , Critical Infrastructure Security , Cybercrime as-a-service Cybereason Says Russian Hacking Group Prometei is Behind the Campaign Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • April 25, 2021     A Russian botnet group called Prometei is exploiting critical Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerabilities to mine cryptocurrency from various organizations across the world, a new report by security…

NVD – CVE-2021-0229

NVD – CVE-2021-0229

CVE-2021-0229 Detail Awaiting Analysis This vulnerability is currently awaiting analysis. Description An uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability in Message Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT) server of Juniper Networks Junos OS allows an attacker to cause MQTT server to crash and restart leading to a Denial of Service (DoS) by sending a stream…

Deep Instinct’s neural networks for cybersecurity attract $100M

Deep Instinct’s neural networks for cybersecurity attract $100M

Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. The increasingly rich data companies are collecting makes them a more tantalizing target for attacks. But Deep Instinct wants to turn that same data into an enterprise’s greatest defensive asset. Deep Instinct is applying end-to-end deep learning to cybersecurity, an approach…

Rapid7 Acquires Open-Source Community Project Velociraptor

Rapid7 Acquires Open-Source Community Project Velociraptor

Application Security , Cloud Security , Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) Zscaler Is Also Boosting Cloud Capabilities by Picking Up Trustdome Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • April 24, 2021     Rapid7 is acquiring Velociraptor, an open-source, endpoint-monitoring, digital forensics and incident response organization and professional community that it will continue to operate as a stand-alone…

CVE-2021-20590 – Alert Detail – Security Database

CVE-2021-20590 – Alert Detail – Security Database

Executive Summary Informations Name CVE-2021-20590 First vendor Publication 2021-04-22 Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2021-04-22 Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3 Cvss vector : N/A Overall CVSS Score NA Base Score NA Environmental Score NA impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA Exploitabality Sub Score NA   Calculate full CVSS 3.0 Vectors scores Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2 Cvss…

Rapid7 Acquires Open-Source Community Project Velociraptor

Rapid7 Acquires Open-Source Community Project Velociraptor

Application Security , Cloud Security , Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) Zscaler Is Also Boosting Cloud Capabilities by Picking Up Trustdome Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • April 24, 2021     Rapid7 is acquiring Velociraptor, an open-source, endpoint-monitoring, digital forensics and incident response organization and professional community that it will continue to operate as a stand-alone…