April 2020 - Page 3 of 3

5 Good Cybersecurity Lessons Learned From FTC Law Enforcement Actions

Cybercrime, Cybersecurity Articles, Regulations & Laws, Standards & Guidelines / Frank Crast / April 5, 2020 / CVE-2017-5638, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Framework, FTC, law

Several years ago, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released a good video that is still highly relevent today. The video explains how companies can leverage NIST’s Cybersecurity Framework to greatly improve security in their organization. In this article, we highlight the five key tenants from the framework and how they could have possibly prevented FTC action and penalties.

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FBI warns of video-teleconferencing hijacking “Zoom-bombing”

Cybersecurity Attacks, Network Security, Security Updates & Patches, Vulnerabilities & Exploits / Frank Crast / April 4, 2020 / Cisco, Webex, Zoom, Zoom-bombing

As the COVID-19 crisis continues to spread, larger numbers of enterprises and learning organizations are moving meetings and classrooms online via video-teleconferencing (VTC) platforms. The FBI has issued a new warning of recent VTC attacks and also offered guidance on how to better security VTC platforms.

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Firefox security update (74.0.1) patches two zero-day critical vulnerabilities

Security Updates & Patches, Vulnerabilities & Exploits / Frank Crast / April 4, 2020 / CVE-2020-6819, CVE-2020-6820, Firefox, Mozilla

The Mozilla Foundation released a new security update for Firefox 74.0.1 that patches two zero-day Critical vulnerabilities (CVE-2020-6819 and CVE-2020-6820) under active attack.

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APT41 launches broad cyber campaign with multiple exploits

Network Security, Security Updates & Patches, Vulnerabilities & Exploits / Frank Crast / April 1, 2020 / APT41, Citrix, CVE-2019-1652, CVE-2019-1653, CVE-2019-19781, CVE-2020-10189, RV320, RV325, Zoho

Researchers from FireEye have discovered Chinese cyber threat group APT41 carry out a broad cyber campaign between January 20 and March 11, 2020. The actors have attempted to exploit vulnerabilities in Citrix NetScaler/ADC, Cisco routers, and Zoho ManageEngine Desktop Central products against 75 FireEye customers.

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Google releases Chrome security update (80.0.3987.162)

Mobile Security, Security Updates & Patches, Vulnerabilities & Exploits / Frank Crast / April 1, 2020 / Android, Chrome, Chrome 80, CVE-2020-6450, CVE-2020-6451, CVE-2020-6452

Google has released Chrome 80.0.3987.162 for Windows, Mac and Linux, as well as a new version of Chrome for Android.

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