Security News > 2023 > November
Okta is warning nearly 5,000 current and former employees that their personal information was exposed after a third-party vendor was breached. The data breach notification warns of a security incident that impacted Rightway Healthcare, which provides healthcare coverage for Okta employees and their families.
The code of conduct provides guidelines for AI regulation across G7 countries and includes cybersecurity considerations and international standards. The Group of Seven countries have created a voluntary AI code of conduct, released on October 30, regarding the use of advanced artificial intelligence.
A Microsoft study found that 44 million Microsoft users were reusing passwords over a 3-month period, while a more recent LastPass survey estimates 62% of knowledge workers reuse the same password or a close variation. There is no way to know which users are reusing passwords, but there are ways to reduce the potential impact if a reused password is compromised.
The unexpected drop in malicious activity connected with the Mozi botnet in August 2023 was due to a kill switch that was distributed to the bots. "First, the drop manifested in India on August...
Multiple top leaders of India's opposition parties and several journalists have received a notification from Apple, saying that "Apple believes you are being targeted by state-sponsored attackers who are trying to remotely compromise the iPhone associated with your Apple ID.". For India to uphold fundamental rights, authorities must initiate an immediate independent inquiry, implement a ban on the use of rights-abusing commercial spyware, and make a commitment to reform the country's surveillance laws.
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The Iranian nation-state actor known as MuddyWater has been linked to a new spear-phishing campaign targeting two Israeli entities to ultimately deploy a legitimate remote administration tool from...
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As many as 34 unique vulnerable Windows Driver Model (WDM) and Windows Driver Frameworks (WDF) drivers could be exploited by non-privileged threat actors to gain full control of the devices and...
The Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) has officially announced CVSS v4.0, the next generation of the Common Vulnerability Scoring System standard, more than eight years after...