Cyber Threat Advisory

Cyber Threat Updates

• Before and After a Pen Test: Steps to Get Through It
  An effective cybersecurity strategy can be challenging to implement correctly and often involves many layers of security. Part of a robust security strategy involves performing what is known as a pene …
• Bug in Popular WinRAR Software Could Let Attackers Hack Your Computer
  A new security weakness has been disclosed in the WinRAR trialware file archiver utility for Windows that could be abused by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on targeted systems, underscori …
• Product Overview: Cynet SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM)
  Software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications have gone from novelty to business necessity in a few short years, and its positive impact on organizations is clear. It’s safe to say that most industries to …
• Malicious NPM Packages Caught Running Cryptominer On Windows, Linux, macOS Devices
  Three JavaScript libraries uploaded to the official NPM package repository have been unmasked as crypto-mining malware, once again demonstrating how open-source software package repositories are becom …
• U.S. Government Bans Sale of Hacking Tools to Authoritarian Regimes
  The U.S. Commerce Department on Wednesday announced new rules barring the sales of hacking software and equipment to authoritarian regimes and potentially facilitate human rights abuse for national se …

MS-ISAC Updates

• NGINX + CIS Hardened Images = Security at Top Efficiency
  Just under 25% of the internet’s busiest websites – including Dropbox, Netflix, and WordPress.com – served or proxied NGNIX in July 2021, according to Netcraft. But, how can organizations harden this …
• Why Are Authentication and Authorization So Difficult?
  Let’s say you’re tasked with selecting a strong authentication solution for your organization. Where do you begin? This blog is meant to be an introduction as well as provide links to additional resou …
• Enabling the Cooperative Ecosystem
  By Adam Montville The Center for Internet Security (CIS) has a mission to improve the actual practice of cyber defense, and we do this, in part, by ensuring that our best practice recommendations (in …
• Join CIS and MS-ISAC at Virtual 11th Annual Cyber Security Summit
  The Center for Internet Security (CIS) and the Multi-State Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) are proudly serving as partners for the Virtual 11th Annual Cyber Security Summit. This year’s ev …
• CIS Podcast Ep 17: Cybersecurity Awareness Month, It’s All About the Big Picture
  In this edition of Cybersecurity Where You Are, CIS Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Sean Atkinson welcomes Philippe Langlois of the Verizon Business Group and co-author of the Verizon Data …

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Last updated: 8/27/2018