White House stands down SolarWinds, Microsoft Exchange cyber response groups

NSA Shares Guidance for Government Employees on Securing Wireless Devices in Public | IT Security News 2. August 2021 This article has been indexed from SecurityWeek RSS Feed The National Security Agency (NSA) has published a new document to provide a series of recommendations on how governmental agencies in the United States can mitigate the…

Security agencies in the United States and United Kingdom issued an advisory on Thursday to warn organizations about an ongoing global campaign involving brute force techniques. The NSA, CISA, FBI and the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) have attributed the campaign to the Russian government, specifically a cyber espionage group linked to Russia’s General…

Moody’s Corporation and BitSight announced a collaborative effort aimed at helping the companies’ customers identify and quantify cybersecurity risk and potential for financial exposure, according to a Monday (Sept. 13) press release. As part of the joint effort, Moody’s will invest $250 million in BitSight, a cybersecurity ratings platform. In turn, BitSight will purchase VisibleRisk,…

A reverse engineer has discovered what is claimed to be “the first known malware targeting Windows containers to compromise cloud environments,” a sentence to put any system administrator on edge. Building on work published in December of last year on reverse-engineering Windows containers, security researcher Daniel Prizmant’s latest discovery – made during his day job…

While some organizations are improving their ability to share cyberthreat intelligence with other entities within the same sector, cross-sector cyber intelligence collaboration is still difficult. But cyber fusion centers can help automate that process, according to Errol Weiss of the Health Information Sharing & Analysis Center and Anuj Goel of security firm Cyware. “To this…

WhatsApp image filter function had a potential security flaw that could allow hackers to get hold of sensitive data. The major security vulnerability was discovered by security research firm Check Point Research (CPR). The research firm pointed out that the flaw rooted in the image filter function of WhatsApp for Android could be triggered when…