Security News

CERT-UA Warns of Cyber Scams Using Fake AnyDesk Requests for Fraudulent Security Audits
2025-01-21 05:27

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) is warning of ongoing attempts by unknown threat actors to impersonate the cybersecurity agency by sending AnyDesk connection requests....

CERT-UA warns against “security audit” requests via AnyDesk
2025-01-20 09:22

Attackers are impersonating the Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) via AnyDesk to gain access to target computers. The request (Source: CERT-UA) “Unidentified individuals are...

New HIPAA Rules Mandate 72-Hour Data Restoration and Annual Compliance Audits
2024-12-30 12:43

The United States Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has proposed new cybersecurity requirements for healthcare organizations with an aim to safeguard...

Major security audit of critical FreeBSD components now available
2024-11-18 15:19

The FreeBSD Foundation, in partnership with the Alpha-Omega Project, has released the results of an extensive security audit of two critical FreeBSD components: the bhyve hypervisor and the...

Audit finds notable security gaps in FBI's storage media management
2024-08-25 14:14

An audit from the Department of Justice's Office of the Inspector General (OIG) identified "significant weaknesses" in FBI's inventory management and disposal of electronic storage media...

Where internal audit teams are spending most of their time
2024-08-09 03:30

Over half of key stakeholders including audit committees, company boards, and chief financial officers are looking to internal audit teams to take on more risk-related work, according to AuditBoard. The study revealed that these expanding expectations are coming at a time when internal audit has limited bandwidth for advisory-related services - and increasing risk demand and insufficient risk management capacity are creating a risk coverage gap for the business.

SolarWinds fixes 8 critical bugs in access rights audit software
2024-07-18 15:51

SolarWinds has fixed eight critical vulnerabilities in its Access Rights Manager software, six of which allowed attackers to gain remote code execution on vulnerable devices. Access Rights Manager is a critical tool in enterprise environments that helps admins manage and audit access rights across their organization's IT infrastructure to minimize threat impact.

OWASP dep-scan: Open-source security and risk audit tool
2024-05-16 05:00

OWASP dep-scan is an open-source security and risk assessment tool that leverages information on vulnerabilities, advisories, and licensing restrictions for project dependencies. Depscan utilizes cdxgen to produce Software Bill-of-Materials, which allows us to support many different languages and source code configurations.

SolarWinds fixes critical RCE bugs in access rights audit solution
2024-02-16 18:32

SolarWinds has patched five remote code execution flaws in its Access Rights Manager solution, including three critical severity vulnerabilities that allow unauthenticated exploitation.Access Rights Manager allows companies to manage and audit access rights across their IT infrastructure to minimize insider threat impact and more.

Product showcase: DCAP solution FileAuditor for data classification and access rights audit
2023-12-21 07:30

According to the security policies, established in the organization, only 100 users had legitimate access rights to the file. Only a specialized advanced DCAP system is capable of revealing that a document with confidential content is kept in publicly available storage and that users inside corporate perimeter, who don't have legitimate access rights to the file, access or process it.