CVE-2021-35392

Cybercrime , Cybercrime as-a-service , DDoS Protection Matthew Gatrel Offered Subscription-Based Computer Attack Platforms Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • September 19, 2021     An Illinois man has been found guilty of running subscription-based distributed denial of service attacks that flood targeted computers with information and prevent them from being able to access the internet, reports…

A British train company has been criticized for running a cybersecurity test that made employees think they would receive a bonus for working hard during the pandemic. West Midlands Trains sent an email purporting to be from the company’s managing director, Julian Edwards, out to its approximately 2,500 employees. The missive thanked staff for toiling through…

On Jan. 15, a hacker tried to poison a water treatment plant that served parts of the San Francisco Bay Area. It didn’t seem hard. The hacker had the username and password for a former employee’s TeamViewer account, a popular program that lets users remotely control their computers, according to a private report compiled by the…

BRUSSELS: US President Joe Biden told fellow NATO leaders on Monday (Jun 14) the defence of Europe, Turkey and Canada was a “sacred obligation” for the United States, a marked shift from his predecessor Donald Trump’s threats to withdraw from the military alliance. Arriving in Brussels from the weekend’s G7 summit in England, Biden again sought to…

Boston Public Library Hit With Cyberattack | IT Security News 30. August 2021 This article has been indexed from SecurityWeek RSS Feed The Boston Public Library was hit with a cyberattack earlier this week that crippled its computer network, the library said in a statement Friday. There is no evidence that sensitive employee or patron…

A high severity security vulnerability found in Qualcomm’s Mobile Station Modem (MSM) chips (including the latest 5G-capable versions) could enable attackers to access mobile phone users’ text messages, call history, and listen in on their conversations. Qualcomm MSM is a series of 2G, 3G, 4G, and 5G capable system on chips (SoCs) used in roughly 40%…