Critical Infrastructure Security , Cybercrime , DDoS Protection NZ CERT: Intermittent Disruptions at Financial Organizations Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • September 8, 2021 CERT NZ warns of DDoS attack. (Source: CERT NZ) New Zealand’s Computer Emergency Response Team, or CERT, says it is aware of ongoing distributed denial-of-service attacks that have disrupted services at…
E Hacking News – Latest Hacker News and IT Security News 8. September 2021 This article has been indexed from E Hacking News – Latest Hacker News and IT Security News Washington, D.C’s Howard University, one of the largest Black Schools in the United States, has canceled online and hybrid classes as it continues…
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Microsoft on Tuesday warned of an actively exploited zero-day flaw impacting Internet Explorer that’s being used to hijack vulnerable Windows systems by leveraging weaponized Office documents. Tracked as CVE-2021-40444 (CVSS score: 8.8), the remote code execution flaw is rooted in MSHTML (aka Trident), a proprietary browser engine for the now-discontinued Internet Explorer and which is…
The term “zero-trust” may sound gimmicky at first glance, but in reality, organizations are increasingly adopting this approach to shore up network security from multiple angles. Forrester coined the term zero-trust in 2010 to describe the idea that nothing is inherently safe and that everything must be continuously verified. You may have heard the motto,…
Howard University in Washington DC has been hit by a ransomware attack which has forced it to cancel classes for two days running. The university stated on Monday 6 September that its technology team detected “unusual activity on the university’s network” on 3 September which caused it to shut down its network to investigate the…
New 0-Day Attack Targeting Windows Users With Microsoft Office Documents | IT Security News 8. September 2021 This article has been indexed from The Hacker News Microsoft on Tuesday warned of an actively exploited zero-day flaw impacting Internet Explorer that’s being used to hijack vulnerable Windows systems by leveraging weaponized Office documents.Tracked as CVE-2021-40444 (CVSS…
Breach Notification , Critical Infrastructure Security , Cybercrime Classes Canceled as the University’s IT Staff Repairs Damage Dan Gunderman (dangun127) • September 7, 2021 Howard University detected the cyberattack late last week. (Photo: Derek E. Morton via Wiki/CC) Stay tuned for updates on this developing story. See Also: Top 50 Security Threats …
Microsoft today shared mitigation for a remote code execution vulnerability in Windows that is being exploited in targeted attacks against Office 365 and Office 2019 on Windows 10. The flaw is in MSHTML, the browser rendering engine that is also used by Microsoft Office documents. Ongoing attacks against Office 365 Identified as CVE-2021-40444, the security issue…
Five security vulnerabilities in commonly used infusion pump products from B. Braun Medical Inc. could collectively allow malicious actors to dangerously modify the dose of medicines delivered to patients, says Douglas McKee, a security researcher on a team at security vendor McAfee Enterprise, which recently discovered the flaws. The vulnerabilities exist in both the B….
