After its developers fixed several issues, DeathRansom ransomware is now actively infecting users and encrypting victims' data. DeathRansom wasn't actually crypto-ransomware when attackers first began distributing it. At that time, the threat pretended to encrypt users' information and appended the .wctc extension onto victims' files. Researchers...

Yet another company has been found lacking when it comes to securing its consumers' data. Utah-based InfoTrax Systems provides back-end services to multi-level marketing companies (MLMs) such as dōTERRA, ZanGo, and LifeVantage, providing website portals where individuals can register as a distributor, sign-up new distributors, and place orders for...

Today’s VERT Alert addresses Microsoft’s November 2019 Security Updates. VERT is actively working on coverage for these vulnerabilities and expects to ship ASPL-859 on Wednesday, November 13th. In-The-Wild & Disclosed CVEs CVE-2019-1429 A vulnerability in the scripting engine in Internet Explorer can lead to code execution. The attacker could...

When I meet with customers, I always ask about their primary objective in moving to the cloud. The majority of these customers have the same response: “to save money.” I can’t blame customers for taking this position. Google “cloud deployment” and the headers are dominated by positive articles that offer up anecdotal evidence of how the cloud can...

Today’s VERT Alert addresses Microsoft’s August 2018 Security Updates. VERT is actively working on coverage for these vulnerabilities and expects to ship ASPL-792 on Wednesday, August 15th. In-The-Wild & Disclosed CVEs CVE-2018-8373 A vulnerability exists within the scripting engine in Internet Explorer. An attacker exploiting this vulnerability...

In early August, I will be leading a couple of sessions at the Community College Cyber Summit about cyber security fundamentals. I've also been spending time working with my amazing colleagues thinking about DevOps. Spending so much time going back and forth from "back to basics" and "the future of development" had me thinking that securing DevOps...

When concepts like DevOps and Cloud computing come together, this powerful combination propels organizational growth at a rapid speed. Some trends in today’s industry have helped bring about the collaboration of these two most important change agents. Let’s take a look at them here: The world is witnessing an industry-wide shift wherein we are...

Compliance with version 3.2 of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a must for organizations that handle, process, transmit and store payment card data. But compliance isn’t always easy to establish or maintain. Indeed, there are certain challenges along the way that can make organizations’ compliance with PCI DSS 3.2...

Tripwire's July 2018 Patch Priority Index (PPI) brings together the top vulnerabilities from Microsoft and Adobe. First on the patch priority list this month are patches for Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Edge and Scripting Engine. These patches resolve 22 vulnerabilities, including fixes for security feature bypass, information disclosure, and...

Reddit said that a digital attacker infiltrated some of its systems and accessed user data during a recent security incident. On 1 August, the social news aggregation website revealed that an attacker had compromised a few of its employees' accounts with its cloud and source code hosting providers...

If you haven't been targeted already, you might have at least heard about the latest "sextortion scam" that surfaced a couple weeks ago. I've been seeing the email scam making its rounds since then, and sure enough, it's now hit my own inbox. Seeing this nefarious message firsthand, I wanted to share some things to watch out for with scams like this...

Zero-day attacks have businesses and consumers alike worried about how to protect data. If we don’t know what a threat looks like, can we really protect ourselves against it? For some time, security tools have been developed with the objective of helping organizations defend against the unknown, but the reality of zero-day attacks (the fact that...

A data breach that's being described as Singapore's "worst" digital attack on record exposed the personal information of an estimated 1.5 million people. On 20 July, multiple ministries Singapore's government held a press conference on what they believe was a state-sponsored attack. They didn't...

This summer, my family and I visited a few Arizona ghost towns, and the experience made me wonder what it might have been like to travel across the Old West with all your possessions in tow. What would it feel like to ride through mountains, deserts and territories with only a canvas-covered wagon protecting your valuables? I bet they were keenly...

Microsoft announced its Identity Bounty Program through which security researchers can earn up to $100,000 for an eligible submission. On 17 July, Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) unveiled the creation of a new bug bounty program to help it remediate vulnerabilities affecting its Identity services. Phillip Misner, principal security group...

A dating app geared towards connecting supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump exposed members' personal and account information. On 15 October, security researcher Baptiste Robert (who also goes by the name "Elliot Alderson") discovered security weaknesses in the Donald Daters dating app that exposed several pieces of users' information. https:/...

The Scottish Ambulance Service suffered a data breach in which it exposed its staff members' personal information online. On 12 October, the NHS Ambulance Services Trust, which is part of NHS Scotland, sent an email to its staff in which it disclosed the data breach. As quoted by BBC News:For a time, the names and telephone numbers of staff, as they...

Another National Cyber Security Awareness Month is upon us, and although I have recently wished for its demise through better automated protections, there are some things that cannot be automated. One such area of manual interaction is all the social networks that we use. Unless you are a celebrity with a public relations team behind your every post...