A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. For a daily selection see our twitter feed at #ionCube24. Cast your mind back to the Ashley Madison breach and the black-mailing of members revealed in that breach. I don’t recall another like it until recently. This time though, with how common ransomware has become, are we going to see more victims approached as well as the source of the data breach?

Data visualization techniques provide organizations with strong allies in their fight against cyber threats. In this article, we took a closer look at the importance and techniques of cyber data visualization. Cybersecurity has been gaining more and more importance due to the increasing number of cyber attacks and hackers threatening organizations of every size. As a result, new methods and approaches regarding cybersecurity are being discussed.

Last updated: 20th January, 9.45am. A critical Citrix vulnerability (CVE-2019-19781) is currently under mass exploitation. To detect if your organisation is compromised, Redscan has developed a script that will examine your host.

Data destruction is an aggressive attack technique observed in several nation-state campaigns. This technique under MITRE ATT&CK 1485, describes actions of adversaries that may “..destroy data and files on specific systems or in large numbers on a network to interrupt availability to systems, services, and network resources. Data destruction is likely to render stored data irrecoverable by forensic techniques through overwriting files or data on local and remote drives”.

For some organizations, even the best isn’t quite enough. That’s why JFrog Xray provides a way for you to specify your own additional data, to detect even more sensitive issues in your binaries before they can reach production. JFrog Xray is a tool for DevSecOps teams to gain insight into the open source components used in their applications.

There are many SecurityScorecard alternatives that offer the same core functionality your organization needs to successfully manage first-party, third-party and fourth-party risk. SecurityScorecard is one of the most well-known security ratings platforms but let's look at an alternative and see how they stack up. These security ratings providers are promising to reduce cybersecurity risk by continuously monitoring the security posture of any company in the world, instantly and non-intrusively.

Canadian online pharmacy PlanetDrugsDirect.com has contacted customers warning them that their data might have been exposed in what they euphemistically describe as a “data security incident”. In an email seen by Bleeping Computer, the website warned that exposed personal data could include the following: The email is, unfortunately, somewhat lacking in detail – meaning that concerned customers may have to contact PlanetDrugsDirect via email or telephone to ask questions.

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