<h2 id="the-oh-no-news.">The <em>Oh No!</em> news.</h2>
<h2 id="oh-no-news-is-good-news."><em>Oh No!</em> News is Good
News.</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>TAGS:</strong> Oh No, News, Threat analysis, InfoSec, Google
Dynamic Search Ads</li>
</ul>
<hr />
<h3 id="threat-analysis-your-attack-surface."><strong>Threat analysis;
your attack surface.</strong></h3>
<ul>
<li><p><strong>Source:</strong> <a
href="https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/media-centre/news-and-blogs/2023/11/former-nhs-secretary-found-guilty-of-illegally-accessing-medical-records/">Former
NHS secretary found guilty of illegally accessing medical
records</a><br />
</p>
<ul>
<li>A former NHS employee has been found guilty and fined for illegally
accessing the medical records of over 150 people.<br />
</li>
<li>Loretta Alborghetti, from Redditch, worked as a medical secretary
within the Ophthalmology department at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals
NHS Trust when she illegally accessed the records.<br />
</li>
</ul></li>
<li><p><strong>Supporting Source:</strong> <a
href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1875340#map=12/52.2917/-1.9485">Open
Street Map link to Redditch Worcestershire.</a><br />
</p></li>
<li><p><strong>Source:</strong> <a
href="https://thehackernews.com/2023/11/netsupport-rat-infections-on-rise.html">NetSupport
RAT Infections on the Rise. Targeting Government and Business
Sectors</a><br />
</p>
<ul>
<li>While NetSupport Manager started off as a legitimate remote
administration tool for technical assistance and support, malicious
actors have misappropriated the tool to their own advantage, using it as
a beachhead for subsequent attacks.<br />
</li>
</ul></li>
<li><p><strong>Source:</strong> <a
href="https://thehackernews.com/2023/11/beware-malicious-google-ads-trick.html">Beware:
Malicious Google Ads Trick WinSCP Users into Installing
Malware</a><br />
</p>
<ul>
<li>The threat actors are believed to leverage Google's Dynamic Search
Ads (DSAs), which automatically generates ads based on a site's content
to serve the malicious ads that take the victims to the infected
site.<br />
</li>
</ul></li>
<li><p><strong>Source:</strong> <a
href="https://thehackernews.com/2023/10/trojanized-pycharm-software-version.html">Trojanized
PyCharm Software Version Delivered via Google Search Ads.</a><br />
</p>
<ul>
<li>Victims who clicked on the ad were taken to a hacked web page with a
link to download the application, which turned out to install over a
dozen different pieces of malware instead.<br />
</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<hr />
<h3 id="infosec-the-language-of-security."><strong>InfoSec; the language
of security.</strong></h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Source:</strong> <a
href="https://thehackernews.com/2023/11/why-defenders-should-embrace-hacker.html">Why
Defenders Should Embrace a Hacker Mindset</a><br />
</li>
</ul>
<hr />
<ul>
<li><strong>Additional Information.</strong>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_breach"
title="From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.">What is a "Data
Breach"?</a> A data breach is a security violation, in which sensitive,
protected or confidential data is copied, transmitted, viewed, stolen,
altered or used by an individual unauthorized to do so.<br />
</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malware"
title="From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia">What is "Malware"?</a>
Malware (a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portmanteau"
title="From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia">portmanteau</a> for
malicious software) is any software intentionally designed to cause
disruption to a computer, server, client, or computer network, leak
private information, gain unauthorized access to information or systems,
deprive access to information, or which unknowingly interferes with the
user's computer security and privacy.<br />
</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payload_(computing)"
title="From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia">What is a "Payload"?</a>
In the context of a computer virus or worm, the payload is the portion
of the malware which performs malicious action; deleting data, sending
spam or encrypting data. In addition to the payload, such malware also
typically has overhead code aimed at simply spreading itself, or
avoiding detection.<br />
</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing"
title="From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.">What is "Phishing"?</a>
Phishing is a form of <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_engineering_(security)"
title="From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia">social engineering</a>
where attackers deceive people into revealing sensitive information or
installing malware such as <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ransomware"
title="From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia">ransomware</a>. Phishing
attacks have become increasingly sophisticated and often transparently
mirror the site being targeted, allowing the attacker to observe
everything while the victim is navigating the site, and transverse any
additional security boundaries with the victim.<br />
</li>
<li><a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_engineering_(security)">Social
engineering (security)</a> In the context of information security,
social engineering is the <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_manipulation">psychological
manipulation</a> of people into performing actions or divulging
confidential information. A type of confidence trick for the purpose of
information gathering, fraud, or system access, it differs from a
traditional "con" in that it is often one of many steps in a more
complex fraud scheme.<br />
</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_security"
title="From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia">What is "Information
Security" (InfoSec)?</a> Information security, sometimes shortened to
InfoSec, is the practice of protecting information by mitigating <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information"
title="From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia">information</a> risks. It
is part of <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_management_information_systems"
title="From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia">information risk
management</a>.
<ul>
<li><strong>Information Security Attributes:</strong> <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidentiality"
title="From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia">Confidentiality</a>, <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_integrity"
title="From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia">Integrity</a> and <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability"
title="From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia">Availability</a> (C.I.A.).
Information Systems are composed in three main portions, hardware,
software and communications with the purpose to help identify and apply
information security industry standards, as mechanisms of protection and
prevention, at three levels or layers: physical, personal and
organizational. Essentially, procedures or policies are implemented to
tell administrators, users and operators how to use products to ensure
information security within the organizations.<br />
</li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_management"
title="From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia">What is "Risk
management"?</a> Risk management is the identification, evaluation, and
prioritization of risks followed by coordinated and economical
application of resources to minimize, monitor, and control the
probability or impact of unfortunate events or to maximize the
realization of opportunities.<br />
</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulnerability_(computing)"
title="From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia">What is a "Vulnerability"
(computing)?</a> Vulnerabilities are flaws in a computer system that
weaken the overall security of the device/system. Vulnerabilities can be
weaknesses in either the hardware itself, or the software that runs on
the hardware.<br />
</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_surface"
title="From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia">What is an "Attack
Surface"?</a> The attack surface of a software environment is the sum of
the different points (for "attack vectors") where an unauthorized user
(the "attacker") can try to enter data to or extract data from an
environment. Keeping the attack surface as small as possible is a basic
security measure.<br />
</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_vector"
title="From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia">What is an "Attack
Vector"?</a> In computer security, an attack vector is a specific path,
method, or scenario that can be exploited to break into an IT system,
thus compromising its security. The term was derived from the
corresponding notion of vector in biology. An attack vector may be
exploited manually, automatically, or through a combination of manual
and automatic activity.<br />
</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standardization"
title="From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia">What is
"Standardization"?</a> Standardization is the process of implementing
and developing technical standards based on the consensus of different
parties that include firms, users, interest groups, standards
organizations and governments. Standardization can help maximize
compatibility, interoperability, safety, repeatability, or quality. It
can also facilitate a normalization of formerly custom processes.
<ul>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_computer_standards"
title="From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia">List of computer
standards.</a><br />
</li>
<li><a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_technical_standard_organizations"
title="From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia">List of technical standard
organizations.</a><br />
</li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replay_attack"
title="From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia">What is a "Replay
attack"?</a> A replay attack is a form of network attack in which valid
data transmission is maliciously or fraudulently repeated or delayed.
Another way of describing such an attack is: "an attack on a security
protocol using a replay of messages from a different context into the
intended (or original and expected) context, thereby fooling the honest
participant(s) into thinking they have successfully completed the
protocol run."<br />
</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-in-the-middle_attack"
title="From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia">What is a
"Man-in-the-middle attack"?</a> In cryptography and computer security, a
man-in-the-middle, ..., attack is a cyberattack where the attacker
secretly relays and possibly alters the communications between two
parties who believe that they are directly communicating with each
other, as the attacker has inserted themselves between the two
parties.<br />
</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security"
title="From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia">What is "Transport Layer
Security" (TLS)?</a> Transport Layer Security (TLS) is a cryptographic
protocol designed to provide communications security over a computer
network. The protocol is widely used in applications such as email,
instant messaging, and voice over IP, but its use in securing HTTPS
remains the most publicly visible.<br />
</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handshake_(computing)"
title="From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia">What is a "Handshake"
(computing)?</a>. In computing, a handshake is a signal between two
devices or programs, used to, e.g., authenticate, coordinate. An example
is the handshaking between a hypervisor and an application in a guest
virtual machine.<br />
</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_theater"
title="From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia">What is Security
theater?</a> The practice of taking security measures that are
considered to provide the feeling of improved security while doing
little or nothing to achieve it.<br />
</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
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