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Insights from more than 300 sanctioned adversaries, otherwise known as ‘ethical’ hackers, reveal that around two thirds are able to collect and exfiltrate data within just five hours of gaining access
Vulnerable configurations, software flaws, and exposed Web services allow hackers to find exploitable weaknesses in companies' perimeters in just hours, not days.
In recent court testimony two Facebook engineers were asked what information, precisely, does Facebook store about us, and where is it? Surprisingly they said, they don’t know. Details on how brand new employees of companies are being “spearmished” (hat tip to @ErinInfosec and @RachelTobac via Twitter), and how thousands of Colorado residents found themselves locked The post Facebook Doesn’t Know Where Your Data Is, New Hire Spearmishing Attack, Smart Thermostat Lock Out appeared first on The Shared Security Show.
TikTok has denied reports that it was breached by a hacking group, after it claimed they have gained access to over 2 billion user records, the Los Angeles school district, the second-largest in the US, suffered a ransomware attack, and details on how one high school in Sydney Australia installed fingerprint scanners at the entrance The post TikTok Denies Data Breach, Los Angeles School District Ransomware Attack, Fingerprint Scanners in School Bathrooms appeared first on The Shared Security Show.
Popular password manager LastPass announced that some of their source code was stolen, but that no customer passwords were compromised in a recent data breach disclosure, an Israeli researcher has discovered a new method to exfiltrate data from air-gapped systems using the LED indicators on network cards, and details about the Twitter whistleblower Peiter “Mudge” The post LastPass Data Breach, ETHERLED: Air-Gapped Systems Attack, Twitter Whistleblower Complaint appeared first on The Shared Security Show.