Crypto Hack Earned Crooks $600 Million
Crypto Hack Earned Crooks $600 Million
In 2018, industry and academic researchers revealed a potentially devastating hardware flaw that made computers and other devices worldwide vulnerable to attack. Researchers named the vulnerability Spectre because the flaw was built into modern computer processors that get their speed from a technique called “speculative execution,” in which the processor predicts instructions it might end up executing…
Endpoint Security , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Incident & Breach Response ISMG Editors Discuss Hot Topics, Including Health Data Breaches Anna Delaney (annamadeline) • April 9, 2021 Clockwise, from top left: Scott Ferguson, Anna Delaney, Marianne Kolbasuk McGee and Tom Field Four editors…
Istanbul: Iranian state television on Saturday named a suspect in an attack earlier on a critical nuclear site and provided new purported details about the nature of the attack, saying it involved a “small” blast caused by an explosive device. The suspect reportedly fled the country. Iranian officials had previously said the attack, on April…
Governance & Risk Management , Incident & Breach Response , Legislation & Litigation Judge Says Users Agreed With Arbitration When Accepting Terms and Conditions Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • August 3, 2021 Zynga develops mobile games such as Words With Friends 2 (Photo: Zynga) Yet another lawsuit filed in the wake of a…
Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Governance & Risk Management Security Experts Weigh the Impact of White House’s Latest Cyber Moves Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • July 20, 2021 Security experts are debating the impact of the Biden administration’s Monday condemnation of China for waging attacks on vulnerable Windows Exchange…
The US National Security Agency (NSA) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have released Kubernetes Hardening Guidance, a 59-page technical report detailing threats to Kubernetes environments. Kubernetes is a popular open source software that automates the deployment, scaling, and management of applications run in containers, making it an attractive target for malicious actors….