Target (TGT) and one of its security vendors, Trustwave, were hit with another lawsuit earlier this week over the wide-scale data breach at the retailer. Two banks, Trustmark (TRMK) and Houston-based Green Bank, are seeking damages of more than $5 million … Link: http://www.foxbusiness.com/industries/2014/03/26/banks-sue-security-firm-trustwave-over-target-breach-report-343636749/
Gameover malware targets accounts on employment websites – Techworld.com
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Tenable Launches Security “App Store” For SecurityCenter 4.7
“Tenable’s advanced analytics have allowed us to extend SecurityCenter as both a solution for security assessments and one for data center maintenance and operations. We are looking forward to the ‘security apps’ in 4.7,” said Russell Butturini, Senior Enterprise Security Architect at Healthways, a global disease management and well-being provider and ranked #8 on Information Week 500.
These analytics are directly accessible from within the SecurityCenter console and offer extensive visibility for multiple teams – network, security, operations, and compliance. The apps dramatically cut time and resources required to identify and respond to vulnerabilities, advanced threats, and compliance violations without the need to write complex scripts or rely on 3rd party tools.
Extended mobile device coverage to track mobile device types, users, and vulnerabilities through active, passive scanning and MDM integration.
“Tenable’s mandate is to protect its clients 24/7, so we realize that our solutions’ capabilities need to be as dynamic as the current threat landscape,” said Ron Gula, CEO of Tenable. “We provide customers with the only real-time vulnerability management platform with built-in scan, log, and network analysis technology to assess IT infrastructure risk. With this release, we’re making SecurityCenter even more strategic for our customers by providing direct access to the latest security and compliance intelligence as identified by our world class researchers.”
Cybercrime-as-a-Service, the rise of hacking services
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Handling Incident Management in a Virtualized Environment
… however, this is still reason for concern: a large majority of reported vulnerabilities allow an attacker to gain full control of a single hardware platform’s multi-server environment. Consequently, a close look at detection, containment, and response capabilities for the unique needs of VMs is an important step in integrating virtualization into the organization’s security program.
It is in this phase of incident management, security and infrastructure design teams address the unique challenges associated with virtualization.
A few simple steps – not always so simple to implement – will ensure an organization’s ability to detect unwanted behavior and effectively respond as virtual servers spread across the enterprise, including:
For example, critical or high-value breach targets might reside on a host with more than the recommended two NICs (one for partition management and one for VMs to access the physical network).
Implemented using VLANs configured in a virtual switch and VLAN access control lists (VACLs), this example is one way to help ensure unwanted traffic does not pass from a compromised VM to other VMs on the same host.
Remember that many controls you implement on the physical network must be configured in virtual environments, but VMs are by design isolated from controls on your physical network.
Security teams often face two challenges when trying to remove a physical server from service: retention of potential evidence in volatile storage or removal of a device from a critical business process.
For example, removing power from a server starts the process of mitigating business impact, but it also denies forensic analysis of data, processes, keys, and possible footprints left by an attacker. A VMware snapshot is a point-in-time image of a VM, including RAM and the virtual machine disk file (Siebert, 2011). Administrators typically strive to meet four goals when a virtual server is removed from service: 1) contain a breach or malware infestation by removing the affected server from the network; 2) prevent any further damage to, or loss of, information residing on local storage; 3) remove the server to a secure location for forensics analysis; and 4) restore services provided by the VM.
As I wrote in Step 3: Segment virtual networks, this is easily accomplished using documented steps to isolate one or more virtual network segments.
They examine and help remedy system, network, and process design challenges associated with VM placement, incident detection and containment, and business process recovery unique to virtualization.
Hackers break into Energy’s computer networks, put employees at risk
In 2011, Energy’s lab went offline for almost two weeks after a cyber attack against the Northwest National Laboratory in Washington state limited Internet access and took down its website.
Auditors said Energy maintained a number of independent, at least partially duplicative, cybersecurity incident management capabilities that created inefficiencies in the process and security of the network.
Since the report, Energy CIO Bob Brese told Federal News Radio in December he’s trying to modernize the agency’s network in layers and start up a new security operations center.
Former Energy Chief Information Security Officer Gil Vega said in April Energy faced a zero day attack earlier this year and responded quickly because of the cyber threat intelligence coming from the coordination center.