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By Dr. Torsten Saab, Principal Engineering Fellow, Raytheon The 2020 Internet Crime Report includes information from 791,790 complaints of suspected internet crime—an increase of more than 300,000 complaints from 2019 and reported losses exceeding $4.2 billion. The most hacked industries include government, retail, and technology, due to the high level of personal identifying information that they are known to hold – making a cyberattack very profitable. In October 2021, the White House Office of Science…

Transferring data between password managers is a serious undertaking. Learn how to safely transfer data from LastPass to 1Password. Image: VectorMine/Adobe Stock Must-read security coverage There is no doubt that LastPass and 1Password have served as quality password manager tools for many years, both at the individual and enterprise levels. They both have great features on how to manage passwords securely, thereby making it difficult to separate one from the other. However, there comes a…

An analysis from cybersecurity firm Cyble has found over 900,000 Kubernetes (K8s) exposed across the internet and thus vulnerable to malicious scans and/or data-exposing cyberattacks. The researchers clarified that while not all exposed instances are vulnerable to attacks or the loss of sensitive data, these misconfiguration practices might make companies lucrative targets for threat actors (TA) in the future. For context, Kubernetes is an open-source system designed to automate the deployment, scaling and administration of containerized applications….

With the persistence of security issues in software development, there is an urgent need for software development companies to prioritize security in the software development life cycle. Image: Shutterstock/Funtap Apart from helping them maintain a good reputation and avoid a declining customer base, integrating security in the software development life cycle (SDLC) is also key to protecting organizations from data breaches and other cyberattacks. Therefore, software engineers should take a proactive approach to security during…

Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky uncovered an attack campaign targeting unpatched Microsoft Exchange servers in different Asian countries. According to an advisory released by the company on Monday, once they gained initial access via the above vulnerabilities, the threat actors deployed the ShadowPad malware on the industrial control systems (ICS) of telecommunications companies in Pakistan and Afghanistan and a logistics and a transport organization in Malaysia. Kaspersky said it first spotted the threat in October 2021, with the hackers exploiting…