BitSight, Mastercard and Tenable Make Acquisitions

BitSight, Mastercard and Tenable Make Acquisitions

3rd Party Risk Management , Blockchain & Cryptocurrency , Governance & Risk Management Risk Assessment, Improving DevSecOps, Cryptocurrency Risk Research Drive Deals Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • September 14, 2021     Merger and acquisition activity picked up again in September with BitSight, Tenable and Mastercard all making deals. See Also: An All-in-One Vulnerability Management, Detection,…

Millions of HP OMEN Gaming PCs Impacted by Driver Vulnerability

Millions of HP OMEN Gaming PCs Impacted by Driver Vulnerability

E Hacking News – Latest Hacker News and IT Security News 15. September 2021 This article has been indexed from E Hacking News – Latest Hacker News and IT Security News   On Tuesday, security experts revealed data about a high-severity weakness in the HP OMEN driver software, which affects millions of gaming laptops worldwide…

Massachusetts Attorney General Probing T-Mobile Breach

Massachusetts Attorney General Probing T-Mobile Breach

Breach Notification , Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Security Incident Exposed Personal Information for 54 Million People Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • September 14, 2021     Photo: T-Mobile Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey says her office is now probing the massive data breach at T-Mobile that exposed the personal information of 54 million people,…

Travis CI Flaw Exposed Secrets From Public Repositories

Travis CI Flaw Exposed Secrets From Public Repositories

Access Management , DevSecOps , Identity & Access Management Critics Say Travis CI’s Security Bulletin is Insufficient Jeremy Kirk (jeremy_kirk) • September 15, 2021     Travis CI, a Berlin-based continuous integration vendor, has patched a serious flaw that exposed signing keys, API keys and access credentials, putting thousands of organizations potentially at risk. See…

SEC Cybersecurity Actions Against Registered Firms for Business Email Compromises Emphasize Importance of MFA | BakerHostetler

SEC Cybersecurity Actions Against Registered Firms for Business Email Compromises Emphasize Importance of MFA | BakerHostetler

On August 30, 2021, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) announced three settled orders against several investment advisers, broker-dealers, and dual registrants for violations of Regulation S-P allegedly resulting from business email compromises that each exposed or potentially exposed the personal information of thousands of customers.[1] These enforcement actions underscore the following lessons for broker-dealers…

Anonymous hacks Texas Republican Party website against abortion law

Anonymous hacks Texas Republican Party website against abortion law

Anonymous hacks Texas Republican Party website against abortion law | IT Security News Android App Android App with push notifications Sponsors Endpoint Cybersecurity www.endpoint-cybersecurity.com – Consulting in building your security products– Employee awareness training– Security tests for applications and pentesting… and more. Daily Summary Categories CategoriesSelect Category(ISC)2 Blog  (323)(ISC)2 Blog infosec  (13)(ISC)² Blog  (429)2020-12-08 – Files for an…

Millions of HP OMEN gaming PCs impacted by CVE-2021-3437 driver flaw

Millions of HP OMEN gaming PCs impacted by CVE-2021-3437 driver flaw

Millions of HP OMEN gaming PCs impacted by CVE-2021-3437 driver flaw | IT Security News 14. September 2021 This article has been indexed from Security Affairs A high severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-3437, in HP OMEN laptop and desktop gaming computers exposes millions of systems to DoS and privilege escalation attacks. Millions of HP OMEN laptop…

Moody’s, BitSight Team On Cybersecurity Risk

Moody’s, BitSight Team On Cybersecurity Risk

Moody’s Corporation and BitSight announced a collaborative effort aimed at helping the companies’ customers identify and quantify cybersecurity risk and potential for financial exposure, according to a Monday (Sept. 13) press release. As part of the joint effort, Moody’s will invest $250 million in BitSight, a cybersecurity ratings platform. In turn, BitSight will purchase VisibleRisk,…

Major Viruses That Would Have Been Stopped By A Firewall | Avast

Major Viruses That Would Have Been Stopped By A Firewall | Avast

Computer viruses are code written to steal and destroy. They keep systems from functioning normally and they replicate relentlessly. Once inside your computers and devices, they can control programs, corrupt files and even permanently shut down your hardware. Once upon a time, the hackers who wrote viruses were amateurs playing pranks, just to prove their…

HP OMEN Gaming Hub Flaw Affects Millions of Windows Computers

HP OMEN Gaming Hub Flaw Affects Millions of Windows Computers

Cybersecurity researchers on Tuesday disclosed details about a high-severity flaw in the HP OMEN driver software that impacts millions of gaming computers worldwide, leaving them open to an array of attacks. Tracked as CVE-2021-3437 (CVSS score: 7.8), the vulnerabilities could allow threat actors to escalate privileges to kernel mode without requiring administrator permissions, allowing them…