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Cloudflare sheds more light on Thanksgiving security breach in which tokens, source code accessed by suspected spies
Atlassian systen compromised via October Okta intrusion Cloudflare has just detailed how suspected government spies gained access to its internal Atlassian installation using credentials stolen via a security breach at Okta in October.… This article has been indexed from The…
Biden will veto attempts to kill off SEC’s security breach reporting rules
Senate, House can try but won’t make it past the Prez, says White House The Biden administration has expressed to congressional representatives its strong opposition to undoing the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) strict data breach reporting rule.… This article…
Rise of deepfake threats means biometric security measures won’t be enough
Defenses need a rethink in face of increasing sophistication Cyber attacks using AI-generated deepfakes to bypass facial biometrics security will lead a third of organizations to doubt the adequacy of identity verification and authentication tools as standalone protections.… This article…
Biden will veto attempts to rip up SEC breach reporting rule
Senate, House can try but won’t make it past the Prez, says White House The Biden administration has expressed to congressional representatives its strong opposition to undoing the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) strict data breach reporting rule.… This article…
LockBit shows no remorse for ransomware attack on children’s hospital
It even had the gall to set the ransom demand at $800K … for a nonprofit Ransomware gang LockBit is claiming responsibility for an attack on a Chicago children’s hospital in an apparent deviation from its previous policy of not…
Congress told how Chinese attackers plan to incite ‘societal chaos’ in the US
American public are way ahead of them Chinese attackers are preparing to “wreak havoc” on American infrastructure and “cause societal chaos” in the US, infosec, and law enforcement bosses told a US House committee on Wednesday.… This article has been…
Ransomware payment rates drop to new low – only 29% of victims are forking over cash
It’s almost like years of false assurances have made people realize payments are pointless Trusting a ransomware crew to honor a deal isn’t the greatest idea, and the world seems to be waking up to that. The number of victims…
FBI confirms it issued remote kill command to blow out Volt Typhoon’s botnet
Remotely disinfects Cisco and Netgear routers to block Chinese critters China’s Volt Typhoon attackers used “hundreds” of outdated Cisco and NetGear routers infected with malware in an attempt to break into US critical infrastructure facilities, according to the Justice Department.……
Nearly 4-year-old Cisco vuln linked to recent Akira ransomware attacks
Evidence mounts of an exploit gatekept within Russia’s borders Security researchers believe the Akira ransomware group could be exploiting a nearly four-year-old Cisco vulnerability and using it as an entry point into organizations’ systems.… This article has been indexed from…
We know nations are going after critical systems, but what happens when crims join in?
This isn’t going to end well Volt Typhoon, the Chinese government-backed cyberspies whose infrastructure was at least partially disrupted by Uncle Sam, has been honing in on other US energy, satellite and telecommunications systems, according to Robert Lee, CEO of…
Ivanti releases patches for VPN zero-days, discloses two more high-severity vulns
Many versions still without fixes while sophisticated attackers bypass mitigations Ivanti has finally released the first round of patches for vulnerability-stricken Connect Secure and Policy Secure gateways, but in doing so has also found two additional zero-days, one of which…
US shorts China’s Volt Typhoon crew targeting America’s criticals
Invaders inveigle infrastructure The US Justice Department and FBI may have scored a win over Chinese state-sponsored snoops trying to break into American critical infrastructure.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read the original article: US…
Jenkins jitters as 45,000 servers still vulnerable to RCE attacks after patch released
Multiple publicly available exploits have since been published for the critical flaw The number of public-facing installs of Jenkins servers vulnerable to a recently disclosed critical vulnerability is in the tens of thousands.… This article has been indexed from The…
Reg story prompts fresh security bulletin, review of Juniper Networks’ CVE process
Vendor gets tangled in its own web of undisclosed vulnerabilities Juniper Networks has disclosed separate vulnerabilities it was previously accused of concealing, and apologized to customers for the error in communication.… This article has been indexed from The Register –…
UK biometrics boss bows out, bemoaning bureaucratic blunders
Questionable institutional change and myriad IT issues pervade the governance landscape The farewell report written by the UK’s biometrics and surveillance commissioner highlights a litany of failings in the Home Office’s approach to governing the technology.… This article has been…
SolarWinds slams SEC lawsuit against it as ‘unprecedented’ victim blaming
18,000 customers, including the Pentagon and Microsoft, may have other thoughts SolarWinds – whose network monitoring software was backdoored by Russian spies so that the biz’s customers could be spied upon – has accused America’s financial watchdog of seeking to…
750 million Indian mobile subscribers’ info for sale on dark web
ALSO: Samsung turns to Baidu for Galaxy AI in China; Terraform Labs files for bankruptcy; India’s supercomputing ambitions Asia In Brief Indian infosec firm CloudSEK last week claimed it found records describing 750 million Indian mobile network subscribers on the…
Tesla hacks make big bank at Pwn2Own’s first automotive-focused event
ALSO: SEC admits to X account negligence; New macOS malware family appears; and some critical vulns Infosec in brief Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) held its first-ever automotive-focused Pwn2Own event in Tokyo last week, and awarded over $1.3 million…
Microsoft sheds some light on Russian email heist – and how to learn from Redmond’s mistakes
Step one, actually turn on MFA Microsoft, a week after disclosing that Kremlin-backed spies broke into its network and stole internal emails and files from its executives and staff, has now confirmed the compromised corporate account used in the genesis…