Tripwire recently held its annual Energy and NERC Compliance Working Group. This year's attendees included more than 200 Tripwire customer utility personnel representing over 80 different registered entities from all across the US and Canada. The company sizes ranged from public utility districts and city municipalities to medium and larger-sized investor-owned utilities, including many of the Fortune 500 and 1000 power entities.

Insights and recommendations to stay ahead of emerging security issues.

Forming partnerships with new vendors can be a complicated and risk-intensive process for any organization. The best way to manage the risks associated with new partnerships and establish successful vendor management practices is to create an effective vendor onboarding policy. Organizations create vendor onboarding policies to standardize the onboarding process, streamline vendor evaluation, and manage vendor risk and vendor compliance.

LDAP, which stands for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, provides an open-source, vendor-neutral application protocol for distributed directory services and user authentication. This article provides a brief overview of LDAP uses, followed by a description of LDAP exposure risks and cybersecurity protection strategies.

On August 10, 2023, CrushFTP released an advisory regarding a vulnerability affecting versions of CrushFTP lower than 10.5.1. Since then, the vulnerability has been tracked as CVE-2023-43177 and the security researchers at Converge published a blog sharing their findings on November 16. CVE-2023-43177 is a mass assignment vulnerability related to how CrushFTP parses request headers for the AS2 protocol. Successful exploitation could lead to unauthenticated, remote code execution (RCE).

Beginning on at least October 20, 2023, a North Korea-linked threat actor, tracked as Diamond Sleet by Microsoft, leveraged a modified CyberLink installer to compromise victim assets. CyberLink Corp. is a Taiwan-based multimedia software company that develops media editing and recording software.

At Corelight, we’re always striving to make the life of threat hunters and security analysts a little easier. It’s the reason we developed our Open NDR Platform that provides comprehensive, correlated network data and forensic evidence about everything happening on the network. If you’re familiar with Corelight, you probably already know that.

If you’re the victim of a ransomware attack, there are no guarantees that you can recover your stolen data. The best you can do is mitigate the effects of the attack and remove the ransomware from your device. The steps to recover from a ransomware attack include isolating your device, removing the ransomware, restoring your backed-up data and changing any compromised login credentials.

Keeper Security is excited to announce that our government solution, Keeper Security Government Cloud has been honored with three ASTORS Homeland Security Awards. The FedRAMP Authorized password and privileged access management platform was recognized for Best Cyber Security Solution, Best Privileged Access Security Solution and Best Cyber Encryption Solution at the annual ASTORS awards ceremony held in New York City.

Huntress has released a report finding that business email compromise (BEC) attacks have risen in the third quarter of 2023. “64% of identity-focused incidents in Q3 2023 involved malicious forwarding or other malicious inbox rules, a key indicator of business email compromise (BEC),” the researchers write. “Another 24% of identity-focused incidents involved logins from unusual or suspicious locations.