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week in review
Week in review: VPNs vulnerable to TunnelCrack attacks, Cybertech Africa 2023

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Deception technology and breach anticipation strategies In this Help Net …

Zimbra
Zimbra users in Europe, Latin America face phishing threat

ESET researchers have uncovered a mass-spreading phishing campaign aimed at collecting Zimbra account users’ credentials. Zimbra Collaboration is an open-core collaborative …

Rohit Bohara
Reinventing OT security for dynamic landscapes

From understanding the challenges of disparate OT protocols and the increasing convergence with IT to grappling with the monumental role of human error, our latest interview …

New infosec products of the week
New infosec products of the week: August 18, 2023

Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from Action1, MongoDB, Bitdefender, SentinelOne and Netskope. Action1 platform update …

Fire
30% of phishing threats involve newly registered domains

Phishing remains the most dominant and fastest growing internet crime, largely due to the ubiquity of email and the ceaseless issue of human error that is preyed upon by …

zero trust
Federal agencies gear up for zero trust executive order deadline

Federal agencies are prepared to meet the zero trust executive order requirements from the Biden Administration with just over a year until the deadline, according to …

Citrix ShareFile
Citrix ShareFile vulnerability actively exploited (CVE-2023-24489)

CVE-2023-24489, a critical Citrix ShareFile vulnerability that the company has fixed in June 2023, is being exploited by attackers. GreyNoise has flagged on Tuesday a sudden …

QR codes
Phishers use QR codes to target companies in various industries

A phishing campaign using QR codes has been detected targeting various industries, with the aim to acquire Microsoft credentials. “The most notable target, a major …

Eduardo Mônaco
The road ahead for ecommerce fraud prevention

Ecommerce platforms are incorporating sophisticated fraud detection measures, but fraudsters, too, are refining their strategies. In this Help Net Security interview, Eduardo …

mental health
Heavy workloads driving IT professionals to resign

A quarter of IT professionals are seriously contemplating leaving their current jobs within the next six months, potentially costing US companies upwards of 145 billion …

findlargedir
Findlargedir: Find all “blackhole” directories with a huge amount of filesystem entries

Findlargedir is a tool written to help quickly identify “black hole” directories on any filesystem having more than 100k entries in a single flat structure. When a …

LinkedIn
LinkedIn users targeted in account hijacking campaign

LinkedIn users are being targeted in an ongoing account hijacking campaign, getting locked out of their accounts; the hacked accounts are held for ransom. Users discussing …

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