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On August 30, 2021, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) announced three settled orders against several investment advisers, broker-dealers, and dual registrants for violations of Regulation S-P allegedly resulting from business email compromises that each exposed or potentially exposed the personal information of thousands of customers.[1] These enforcement actions underscore the following lessons for broker-dealers…

Anonymous hacks Texas Republican Party website against abortion law | IT Security News Android App Android App with push notifications Sponsors Endpoint Cybersecurity www.endpoint-cybersecurity.com – Consulting in building your security products– Employee awareness training– Security tests for applications and pentesting… and more. Daily Summary Categories CategoriesSelect Category(ISC)2 Blog  (323)(ISC)2 Blog infosec  (13)(ISC)² Blog  (429)2020-12-08 – Files for an…

Millions of HP OMEN gaming PCs impacted by CVE-2021-3437 driver flaw | IT Security News 14. September 2021 This article has been indexed from Security Affairs A high severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-3437, in HP OMEN laptop and desktop gaming computers exposes millions of systems to DoS and privilege escalation attacks. Millions of HP OMEN laptop…

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,…

Computer viruses are code written to steal and destroy. They keep systems from functioning normally and they replicate relentlessly. Once inside your computers and devices, they can control programs, corrupt files and even permanently shut down your hardware. Once upon a time, the hackers who wrote viruses were amateurs playing pranks, just to prove their…

Cybersecurity researchers on Tuesday disclosed details about a high-severity flaw in the HP OMEN driver software that impacts millions of gaming computers worldwide, leaving them open to an array of attacks. Tracked as CVE-2021-3437 (CVSS score: 7.8), the vulnerabilities could allow threat actors to escalate privileges to kernel mode without requiring administrator permissions, allowing them…

Critical Infrastructure Security , Cybercrime , Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks Group Specializing in Big Game Hunting Has Amassed Millions in Ransom Payments Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • September 13, 2021     REvil ransom note seen by victims of the ransomware attack involving Kaseya’s software (Source: Cisco Talos) Has the notorious REvil ransomware group resumed…