Britain needs to boost its capacity to conduct cyber attacks on foreign enemies, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said before the publication of a national security review this coming week. “Cyber power is revolutionising the way we live our lives and fight our wars, just as air power did 100 years ago,” Johnson said in a…
After Microsoft warned its customers against a Chinese nation-state cyberattack that is targeting the tech giant’s “Exchange Server” software, ransomware gangs have started to target vulnerable instances. Microsoft has confirmed that a new strain of ransomware is targeting vulnerable on-premise Microsoft Exchange Servers through ProxyLogon vulnerabilities as cybercriminal groups focus on those who haven’t (or…
Myanmar’s UN envoy, appointed by the disbanded parliament, says the world needs to co-ordinate its action against Myanmar’s military dictatorship. “It has to be targeted sanctions. It has to be tougher sanctions. There is no coordination. There is no targeting,” Dr Sasa told BBC World News. Dr Sasa fled Myanmar, also known as Burma, on…
Mixed-reality platform, Microsoft Mesh, will allow people to join and share the same virtual experience wherever they are in the world. The system was announced at the company’s Ignite digital conference, earlier this month. While augmented reality overlays virtual objects in front of you, mixed reality allows the user to interact with what they can…
Threat actors are now installing a new ransomware called ‘DEARCRY’ after hacking into Microsoft Exchange servers using the recently disclosed ProxyLogon vulnerabilities. Since Microsoft revealed earlier this month that threat actors were compromising Microsoft Exchange servers using new zero-day ProxyLogon vulnerabilities, a significant concern has been when threat actors would use it to deploy ransomware….
Breach Notification , Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Email Security & Protection Microsoft Investigating; Devcore Pentesters Say They’re in the Clear Jeremy Kirk (jeremy_kirk) • March 14, 2021 It has been an open question as to how a half-dozen hacking groups began exploiting Exchange servers in an automated fashion in the days leading…
Donald Trump’s efforts failed to persuade North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons North Korea has not responded to behind-the-scenes diplomatic outreach since mid-February by President Joe Biden’s administration, including to Pyongyang’s mission to the United Nations, a senior Biden administration official told Reuters on March 13. The disclosure of the so-far unsuccessful U.S….
Entrance to the Red Hat headquarters. The company’s distributions of Linux kernels appear to be particularly susceptible to vulnerabilities unearthed recently. (Red Hat) Three recently unearthed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel, located in the iSCSI module used for accessing shared data storage facilities, could allow root privileges to anyone with a user account. The trio…
The Biden administration warned Friday that organizations face enormous risks from the recently disclosed Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities that have affected thousands of private organizations. As attacks leveraging the vulnerabilities have escalated, the window for updating exposed servers is incredibly short — “measured in hours, not days,” a senior administration official told reporters. President Joe Biden…
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A senior US official said Friday the Biden administration is close to a decision on retaliation for state-sponsored hacking as fears grew over the fallout from the latest of two major cyberattacks. The official said the White House was working closely with the private sector to ramp up cyber defenses following…
