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The India native has transitioned from a reverse-engineer hobbyist to a public speaker in just a few years   By Jon Munshaw.  Ninety percent of Asheer Malhotra’s work will never see the light of day. But it’s that 10 percent that keeps him motivated to keep looking for something new.  The Talos Outreach researcher spends most of his days looking into potential new threats. Many times, that leads to dead ends of threats that have already been discovered and blocked or don’t have any additional threads to pull on.  But eventually, the “lightbulb goes off,” as he puts it, which indicates something is a new threat the wider public needs to know about. During his time at Talos, Malhotra has spent much of his time looking into cyber attacks and state-sponsored threat actors in Asia, like the Transparent Tribe group he’s written about several times.  “At some point, I say ‘Hey, I don’t think I’ve seen this before.’ I start analyzing public disclosures, and slowly start gaining confidence and...

US lawmakers keep warning about the popular app. But until they can explain what makes it uniquely dangerous, it’s difficult to tailor a resolution.

Cybersecurity researchers have offered insight into a previously undocumented software control panel used by a financially motivated threat group known as TA505. "The group frequently changes its malware attack strategies in response to global cybercrime trends," Swiss cybersecurity firm PRODAFT said in a report shared with The Hacker News. "It opportunistically adopts new technologies in order

Managed firewalls are increasingly popular. This post examines the strengths and weaknesses of managed firewalls to help your team decide on the right approach.

Ubuntu Security Notice 5595-1 - Asaf Modelevsky discovered that the Intel 10GbE PCI Express Ethernet driver for the Linux kernel performed insufficient control flow management. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service. It was discovered that the virtual terminal driver in the Linux kernel did not properly handle VGA console font changes, leading to an out-of-bounds write. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Ubuntu Security Notice 5596-1 - Asaf Modelevsky discovered that the Intel 10GbE PCI Express Ethernet driver for the Linux kernel performed insufficient control flow management. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service. It was discovered that the framebuffer driver on the Linux kernel did not verify size limits when changing font or screen size, leading to an out-of-bounds write. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Popular short-form social video service TikTok denied reports that it was breached by a hacking group, after it claimed to have gained access to an insecure cloud server. "TikTok prioritizes the privacy and security of our users' data," the ByteDance-owned company told The Hacker News. "Our security team investigated these claims and found no evidence of a security breach." The denial follows

Not all security teams are born equal. Each organization has a different objective. In cybersecurity, adopting a proactive approach is not just a buzzword. It actually is what makes the difference between staying behind attackers and getting ahead of them. And the solutions to do that do exist! Most attacks succeed by taking advantage of common failures in their target's systems. Whether new or

By Owais Sultan Given the potent and rising threat of phishing, enterprises need an effective program that delivers real results. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hoxhunt Primed to Spread Gamified Phishing Awareness in the Enterprise

The US government and the Open Source Security Foundation have released guidance to shore up software supply chain security, and now it's up to developers to act.