Some of the country’s leading technology companies have committed to investing billions of dollars to strengthen cybersecurity defences and to train skilled workers, the White House has announced, following President Joe Biden’s private meeting with top executives. The gathering was held Wednesday during a relentless stretch of ransomware attacks that have targeted critical…
Governance & Risk Management , Patch Management Alert Urges Organizations to Patch as Vulnerabilities Are Exploited Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • August 27, 2021 Four months after Microsoft released the first security update for three vulnerabilities in several versions of its on-premises Exchange Server software – collectively called ProxyShell – the company has issued…
Vulnerability Allows Remote Hacking of Annke Video Surveillance Product | IT Security News 27. August 2021 This article has been indexed from SecurityWeek RSS Feed Researchers at industrial and IoT cybersecurity firm Nozomi Networks have discovered a critical vulnerability that can be exploited to hack a video surveillance product made by Annke, a Hong Kong-based…
Governance & Risk Management , IT Risk Management , Next-Generation Technologies & Secure Development Microsoft Mitigates Flaw That Researchers Say Was ‘Trivial’ to Exploit Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • August 27, 2021 A vulnerability in Microsoft Azure’s database service Cosmos DB has potentially put at risk thousands of Azure customers, including many Fortune 500…
Critical Infrastructure Security , Cybercrime , Cybercrime as-a-service Uptick in Hive Ransomware Activity Spotted Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • August 28, 2021 FBI Warns of Hive Ransomware Tactics. (Source: US FBI) The Federal Bureau of Investigation has issued a warning about Hive ransomware after the group took down IT systems at Memorial Health System…
Facial recognition tech: Not just for IDing criminals By Susan Miller Aug 25, 2021 Federal agencies are expanding their use of facial recognition technology, especially for authenticating users before granting them digital access to devices. According to an Aug. 24 Government Accountability Office report, 18 of the 24 agencies surveyed used FRT for…
Governance & Risk Management , Incident & Breach Response , IT Risk Management Hacker Claiming Responsibility for Attack Calls Company’s Security ‘Awful’ Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • August 27, 2021 T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert on Friday issued an official mea culpa for the data breach that exposed information on 54…
Member organisations will be able to make committee nominations as the Council prepares to commence activities and develop the profession London – August 26th 2021 – The UK Cyber Security Council, the self-regulatory body for the cyber security education and skills sector, today announced that it has begun accepting applications from organisations for membership. Any…
Microsoft has warned thousands of its cloud computing customers, including some of the world’s largest companies, that intruders could have the ability to read, change or even delete their main databases, according to a copy of the email and a cyber security researcher. From a report: The vulnerability is in Microsoft Azure’s flagship Cosmos database….
Microsoft has issued a security alert, warning its customers of the actively exploited ProxyShell vulnerabilities affecting multiple on-premises Microsoft Exchange versions. “This past week, security researchers discussed several ProxyShell vulnerabilities, including those which might be exploited on unpatched Exchange servers to deploy ransomware or conduct other post-exploitation activities,” the Microsoft Exchange team wrote in a…
