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Ubuntu Security Notice 5001-1 – Norbert Slusarek discovered a race condition in the CAN BCM networking protocol of the Linux kernel leading to multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities. A local attacker could use this issue to execute arbitrary code. Mathy Vanhoef discovered that the Linux kernel’s WiFi implementation did not properly clear received fragments from memory in…

Governance & Risk Management , IT Risk Management GAO Offers Recommendations to Improve Space Agency’s Cyber Protections Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • June 29, 2021     Photo: NASA via Flickr/CC A government watchdog is urging NASA‘s administrator to make multiple improvements to its cybersecurity and risk management policies to counter threats to the space agency’s…

Researchers Uncover Iranian State-Sponsored Ransomware Operation | IT Security News 3. May 2021 Iran has been linked to yet another state-sponsored ransomware operation through a contracting company based in the country, according to new analysis.“Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was operating a state-sponsored ransomware campaign through an Iranian contracting company called ‘Emen Net Pasargard’…

The cybersecurity authorities of the U.S. Cyber command have recently been notified regarding the increase in the number of scans and attempts to exploit a newly identified vulnerability in corporate servers along with the Atlassian Confluence wiki engine installed. CVE-2021-26084 in Confluence Server and Confluence Data Center software is the vulnerability that has been confirmed…

President Joe Biden plans to nominate Chris Inglis to serve as the country’s first national cyber director, Jen Easterly to direct the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and additional Homeland Security Department leaders. Lawmakers of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, where both nominees delivered input, praised their selection Monday.    Inglis, a former deputy director of the…

New York City’s law department was been hit with a cyberattack that forced officials to take the 1,000-lawyer agency offline, but Mayor Bill de Blasio said he believes no data was compromised in the hack. “To this hour we have not seen information compromised or a ransom demand,” the Democratic mayor said at a virtual…