Yet Another Security Blog

  Summary Mostly SCADA stuff the last two weeks.  It seems that the bad guys like to coordinate and cycle.  On a positive note, Biden signed 2 cybersecurity bills in to law! News SCADA/IOC general Researchers with Forescout have announced 56 issues in 26 devices from 10 different companies (enough numbers for you?).  They have named the collective issues  OT:ICEFALL (link below).  The devices all suffer from poor design practices that made them insecure out of the box.  To keep from having more numbers, I will reframe from too deep a dive into the different issues, but if you have any of the affected devices, you should remediate them to the best of your ability. ( https://thehackernews.com/new-images/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0y073EMjXAssRTlpNziUUmiFxyzSK0i0GB-nY48yG2x90XiNqXt2YfNYZ2DAc4zpyvKeU1vSUF7Z1Cior65QiVpZMGgYkgY-tIIVdDaPQ5uGwlssXoIwzydDptaGdUGjlKfgqI-mfr4qxyu3LxmBrCNcLzdTaETnJIqay2H1tgZEuITeT3Hf1U2l_/s728-e100/flaws.jpg ) Here are the CVE's so it ...

 Summary Not a lot of regular news, but we had both the Verizon and Sophos annual reports came out. News The Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report for 2022 indicated that while the education sector continues to be a favorite target, the motivator is mostly financial (somewhat confirming the Sophos report) and Medical Data is actually the least sought after.  The largest sector they indicated as a target was Professional, followed closely matched Finance, Information Technology, Manufacturing, and Public Administration.   https://cyware.com/news/education-sector-under-constant-cyberattacks-f2fbd34f https://www.verizon.com/business/resources/reports/dbir/ Education The FBI issued an alert that they have become aware of cybercriminals selling usernames and passwords from university breaches.  The sales are occurring on a variety of dark websites.  The biggest takeaway for me was that just because you recover from an initial attack it does not mean it is ov...

Summary Hopefully, these will be a bit more regular now that the semester is over.   We are seeing attacks against all infrastructure areas increasing.  This week's report has school breaches, SLTT breaches, SCADA news, and several healthcare attacks. News SLTT Texas Department of Transportation had a data breach that impacted over 7,000 records.  This included employee information with PII including Social Security Numbers (SSN).   https://www.databreaches.net/another-texas-state-agency-data-breach-this-time-its-the-department-of-transportation/?web_view=true The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) announced that 1.9 million people in the state who filed claims for compensation had their information publically available from March 2019 to January 2022.  https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/personal-information-two-million/?&web_view=true https://www.tdi.texas.gov/news/2022/tdi03242022.html https://www.tdi.texas.gov/data-security-event/additi...

Summary Sorry for the delay.  Work, life, and school got in the way.   As expected, most of the news can be wrapped around the growing war between Russia and Ukraine.  There is growing fear of either intentional or unintentional escalation in the cyber world outside those two countries. News SLTT Several state and local governments were targeted by a Chinese government-backed hacking gang.  The breaches occurred in at least 6 different states in The United States.  It appears that the group used the Log4J (i.e. LogJam) vulnerability.     https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/08/politics/china-hacking-state-governments-mandiant/index.html Western Australia announced it will invest $25.5 million AU to expand state cybersecurity.   https://www.zdnet.com/article/wa-government-allocates-au25-5m-to-expand-cybersecurity-services/?&web_view=true New Mexico in the United States (U.S.) appointed its first senior advisor for cybersecurity and critic...

 Summary A lot of news from the last 2 weeks.  I am trying to be more timely with these summaries as the war in Ukraine is in progress.  There has been observed quite a bit of activity around SLTT and infrastuctre targets.   News SLTT The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) of the United States (U.S.) released a list of free cybersecurity tools and services for SLTT's that they pledge to keep updated.  The goal is to help better the overall cybersecurity posture of U.S. critical infrastructure sectors and as such are usable by those out of the SLTT arena. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisa-compiles-list-of-free-cybersecurity-tools-and-services/?&web_view=true Tool: https://www.cisa.gov/free-cybersecurity-services-and-tools CISA also released a bulletin outlining APT group MuddyWater and their attempt to target SLTT and critical infrastructure entities.   https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ncas/current-activit...