With continued debate around responsible disclosure and increased attention around security research techniques, Tripwire wanted to get a pulse on what the community considers responsible practices today. In surveying 147 attendees at the RSA Conference in San Francisco a couple weeks ago, we found out a number of interesting perspectives. Most...

Last week, I had the pleasure of talking to Tripwire’s own marketing specialist, Cindy Valladares. Marketing fits a valuable and overlooked need in the cybersecurity field. Cindy’s creative talent for bringing out the best in people helps Tripwire shine in this industry. This time, I got to chat with pen testing whiz Leanne Williams. Enjoy! Kim...

Most organizations have already adopted or are moving towards adopting a DevOps model into their work culture for improved productivity and workflow. In simple terms, DevOps is an application delivery methodology that encourages collaboration and communication between the developers and operations teams across all phases of the Software Development...

When hackers broke into the email account of a New Zealand grape-grower with the intent of stealing NZD $90,000 (approximately US $70,000) their plan came so very close to fruition. As Stuff New Zealand reports, it was only because of the careful eye of Kathryn Walker, the general manager of Marlborough Vintners (who - notably - previously had a 12...

An unidentified hacker is attempting to sell information pertaining to more than 6,000 Indian enterprises on a DarkNet forum. Researchers at Seqrite, the enterprise security brand of IT security firm Quick Heal, found an advertisement for the data on DarkNet. As of this writing, whoever is behind the posting is currently offering the information,...

October is here once again, and you know what means: National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) is back with more advice on how Americans can bolster their digital security. Now in its 14th year, NCSAM 2017 kicks off its first week with STOP. THINK. CONNECT.™. This campaign is relatively straightforward: STOP to make sure security measures are...

Europol, the European Union's police agency, has warned of the significantly rising threat posed by ransomware. As Associated Press reports, delegates at an international conference were told by Europol Executive Director Rob Wainwright that ransomware had taken the cybercrime threat to "another level." An 80-page report published by the agency...

A new variant of the BankBot malware family is exclusively targeting Google Play in a bid to steal Android users' credit card details. Infection begins when an unsuspecting user downloads Jewels Star Classic, a mobile game created by a developer named "GameDevTony." Upon successful installation, the app's malicious functionality waits 20 minutes...

Over 10 billion transactions are performed every year at ATMs, and there are over 425,000 of these cash-dispensing machines throughout the U.S. for a total of 3,000,000 used globally. ATMs hold anywhere from $3,000 to upwards of $100,000 per machine, so they naturally become a prime target for thieves. Physically breaking open an ATM is not trivial,...

Have you seen the stories about the warrantless devices searches by various border agents? It seems that many folks have had their cell phones confiscated (sometimes forcibly) in order to protect the borders as people travel into the United States. Many of the folks subject to these searches are American citizens, some of whom work for the...

A threat actor known as APT33 is actively targeting organizations in the aerospace and energy sectors with spear phishing campaigns. Between mid-2016 and early 2017, the suspected Iranian digital espionage group attacked a U.S. organization in the aerospace sector, a Saudi Arabian conglomerate with aviation holdings, and a South Korean company known...

In September 2017, I created a list of 10 essential bug bounty programs for 2017. Readers with a keen eye for detail might have noticed that nearly half of the companies included in that catalog host their vulnerability research programs, otherwise known as vulnerability disclosure programs and responsible disclosure programs, through HackerOne. A...

UPDATED 19/9/17 to correct the fact that US Info Search never sold any data to Ngo Equifax made headlines on September 7, 2017, when it announced its discovery of a data breach earlier in the year. In the security incident, computer criminals leveraged a "U.S. website application vulnerability" to view some of the consumer credit reporting agency's...

Insider threat relates to malicious activity from an organization’s internal employees, contractors, or ex-employees who abused access to the company’s internal systems and applications to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, or availability concerns to critical information systems or data with or without malicious intent. Insider threat...

Researchers have uncovered several zero-day flaws affecting billions of Bluetooth-enabled devices, including smartphones, TVs, laptops, watches, smart TVs and more. Dubbed “BlueBorne,” the attack vector enables malicious actors to leverage the short-range wireless protocol to take full control over targeted devices, access data and spread malware to...

Today’s VERT Alert addresses the Microsoft September 2017 Security Updates. VERT is actively working on coverage for these vulnerabilities and expects to ship ASPL-742 on Wednesday, September 13th. In-The-Wild & Disclosed CVEs CVE-2017-8759 This vulnerability, discovered by researchers at FireEye, has been exploited as part of the spread of the...

A backdoor known as Tizi installs spyware onto Android devices in an effort to steal data from their owners' social media profiles. The Google Play Protect security team first detected the digital threat in September 2017 when they found an app with rooting capabilities. Since then, they've come across other apps that exhibit the same malicious...

As we introduced in part 1 of this “word crimes” series, cybersecurity terminology is important. Cybersecurity, IT professionals and legal professionals routinely abuse the terms “policy” and “standard” as if these words were synonymous. In reality, these terms have quite different implications, and those differences should be kept in mind since the...

For as long as I can remember, members of the public have been losing money to scammers, as they've been tricked into sending their hard-earned cash via Western Union. Scammers prey on the vulnerable and gullible, tricking them into wiring money via Western Union with the promise that it will help with medical bills, pay for for a new internet...

With the rise in popularity of containers, development and DevOps paradigms are experiencing a massive shift while security admins are left struggling to figure out how to secure this new class of assets and the environments they reside in. While containers do increase the complexity of the ecosystem that security admins are responsible for securing...