CVE-2021-22349

BEIJING – Among the main challenges that Beijing faces in its quest to become a cyber superpower is that of building a national ecosystem which encourages innovation and churns out talent with cyber skills, an expert told The Straits Times on Monday (June 28). A lack of talent is one of the main reasons why,…

from the so-it-went dept Five Years Ago This week in 2016, the DOJ dropped one of its big cases over iPhone encryption after the defendant suddenly remembered his passcode, while documents revealed that the FBI hid surveillance techniques from federal prosecutors in case they one day became defense lawyers. The FBI was also planning to…

Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Social Media ‘Tortoiseshell’ Group Used the Social Network to Contact Targets Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • July 15, 2021     Facebook’s threat intelligence team says it has disrupted an Iranian advanced persistent threat group that was using the social network as part of an effort…

DENVER, Sept. 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — TTEC Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTEC), one of the largest global CX (customer experience) technology and services innovators for end-to-end digital CX solutions, today resolved the cyber attack on its technology systems. TTEC became…

Microsoft stands to receive nearly a quarter of Covid relief funds destined for US cybersecurity defenders, sources told Reuters, angering some lawmakers who don’t want to increase funding for a company whose software was recently at the heart of two big hacks. Congress allocated the funds at issue in the COVID relief bill signed on…

Critical Infrastructure Security , Cybercrime , Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks Joint Effort with US to Maintain a Black List of Hackers Among Plan proposals Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • June 13, 2021     The U.K. says it plans to turn the country into a global leader in cybersecurity, in partnership with the U.S, to counter…