LJ Rich looks at some of the best technology news stories of the week including: Royal Mail announces a trial of autonomous drones to deliver packages remotely from the mainland UK to the Isles of Scilly Tesla suspends the option to purchase its vehicles using Bitcoin due to climate change concerns, its CEO Elon Musk…
Endpoint Security , Governance & Risk Management , Internet of Things Security Researcher: If Exploited, an Attacker at Close Range Could Inject Malicious Code Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • May 14, 2021 A Belgian security researcher says he uncovered vulnerabilities that affect all modern Wi-Fi security protocols and most wirelessly connected devices, including smartphones,…
Israel’s ambassador to the UK, Tzipi Hotovely, has expressed her concern about the ongoing violence between Jewish and Israeli-Arab mobs in the country. “Jerusalem is a city of peace and a city of co-existence,” she told BBC Hardtalk’s Stephen Sackur. “What we have seen this week is actually the result of a horrible incitement of…
Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management Affiliate-Driven Ransomware-as-a-Service Operations Keep Generating Big Profits Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • May 11, 2021 Statements posted to DarkSide’s data leak site “It’s not personal, Sonny. It’s strictly business.” See Also: Live Webinar | Software Security: Prescriptive vs. Descriptive That immortal…
Israel’s military was trying to minimise civilian casualties in Gaza, but Hamas was effectively using Palestinian civilians as human shields, the Israeli Defence Forces spokesperson has said. “Hamas, purposely embeds its military infrastructure within the civilian population creating an almost impossible situation where they are using Palestinian civilians as their human shields while they fire…
Cybersecurity firm Rapid7 revealed that an unauthorized party accessed some of its source code in a security incident linked to the Codecov supply-chain attack. Last month, Codecov disclosed a security incident involving its Bash Uploader script, a tool that provides a framework and language-agnostic method for sending coverage reports to Codecov. The company…
The current situation which has seen increasing violence in Gaza and Israel was entirely started by Israel, the foreign affairs adviser to Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has said. It was not about telling militants to stop firing rockets, but in the beginning “stopping Israeli aggression,” Dr Nabil Shaath told BBC World News on Thursday. Weeks…
The Israeli-Gaza conflict can be ended if Hama stops firing rockets, Jerusalem’s deputy mayor Fleur Hassan-Nahoum has said. She told BBC World News on Thursday that Hamas had been looking for a war for some time: “They have been planning this for months. The Palestinian Authority are trying to distract people from cancelling an election.”…
The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report features an analysis of the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack and the response. In this report, you’ll hear (click on player beneath image to listen): The ISMG Security Report appears on this and other ISMG websites on Fridays. Don’t miss the April 30 and May 7 editions, which…
[co-author: Tawanna Lee] On May 12, 2021, President Biden issued the long-expected Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity (“EO” or “Order”). The EO comes amidst a series of high-profile cyber-attacks on the Nation and its critical infrastructure, Information and Communications Technology (ICT) supply chain providers, and federal contractors, adding a heightened sense of urgency…
