September 13th, 2021 by Admin
Network security solutions provider Fortinet confirmed that a malicious actor had unauthorizedly disclosed VPN login names and passwords associated with 87,000 FortiGate SSL-VPN devices.
“These credentials were obtained from systems that remained unpatched against CVE-2018-13379 at the time of the actor’s scan. While they may have since been patched, if the passwords were not reset, they remain vulnerable,” the company said in a statement on Wednesday.
[ Source : thehackernews ]
September 9th, 2021 by Admin
With more than 100 trillion objects in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and an almost unimaginably broad set of use cases, securing data stored in Amazon S3 is important for every organization. So, we’ve curated the top 10 controls for securing your data in S3. By default, all S3 buckets are private and can be accessed only by users who are explicitly granted access through ACLs, S3 bucket policies, and identity-based policies. In this post, we review the latest S3 features and Amazon Web Services (AWS) services that you can use to help secure your data in S3, including organization-wide preventative controls such as AWS Organizations service control policies (SCPs).
[ Source : Amazon AWS ]
September 9th, 2021 by Admin
The Government’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT NZ) is monitoring a cyber security attack which appeared to take down a number of major organisation’s websites this morning. Kiwibank, ANZ, NZ Post and MetService. NZ Police all acknowledged that their sites were slow at times. All came back online around midday, but CERT NZ posted a statement saying it was aware of a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) targeting a number of New Zealand organisations.
[Source : NZ Herald ]
September 9th, 2021 by Admin
A hacker using the name Sangkancil has claimed to have stolen the personal information of 7 million Israelis. The attacker said he stole the data from the CITY4U website, which is used by local authorities in Israel to process payments such as property taxes, fines and utility bills. Israel’s current population is some 9.4 million.
[ Source : timesofisrael ]
September 9th, 2021 by Admin
Cybersecurity has never been easy to achieve. With attack patterns evolving almost daily and hackers becoming more sophisticated, cybersecurity and appropriate measures must be clearly defined. However, cybersecurity is not defined uniformly and the term is not always welcomed. A short introduction and definition could hopefully shed some light into the darkness within the scope of the article.
[ Source : theladders ]