CVE-2021-1572

JBS Foods has said it paid roughly $11 million to resolve a ransomware attack that crippled the company. JBS Foods is the world’s largest meat producer, with operations in the us, Canada and Australia. The company experienced a cyberattack on May 30 that crippled operations. At the time, company officials were not commenting on the…

Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Governance & Risk Management Agreement Comes in Advance of Biden Meeting With Putin on Wednesday Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • June 15, 2021     President Joe Biden met with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Monday. (Photo: NATO via Flickr/CC) The U.S. and its NATO…

WordPress core contributor proposes treating Google FLoC as a security vulnerability | IT Security News 19. April 2021 Let’s opt every WordPress site out of FLoC. Nice idea, but security update? Really? A proposal by a WordPress core contributor to treat Google’s FLoC ad tech as a security vulnerability, and therefore backport an automatic opt-out…

Entornointeligente.com / French President Emmanuel Macron is seen on a video screen during a joint press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, as part of a virtual Plenary Session of the Franco-German Council of Ministers in Berlin, Germany, May 31, 2021. [Photo/Agencies] Danes helped NSA snoop on leaders, say reports that reignite 2013 scandal Denmark’s…

Business Continuity Management / Disaster Recovery , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management Hackers Accessed System Containing PII Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • July 20, 2021     Campbell Conroy & O’Neil, a Boston-based law firm that serves Fortune 500 firms, including Apple and Pfizer, is continuing its investigation of a ransomware attack in…

Written by John Hewitt Jones Aug 3, 2021 | FEDSCOOP The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs has identified continued major cybersecurity failings across agencies and is calling for the Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA) to be reformed. A new report published Tuesday identifies IT security flaws across almost every major U.S….