Cyber attack hits State Department in ‘possible serious breach’

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Pats Itself on the Back. The June patch set from Intel brings its vulnerabilities total to 132 for the first six months of 2021, with 70 percent of those having been discovered and mitigated before they were publicly disclosed, Bryant said. Quiet, nonpublic discovery and mitigation is a nice turnaround for Intel, Bryant said.
The Russian, Chinese and Cuban Embassies in Washington did not immediately return messages seeking comment. The Iranian mission to the United Nations and the Venezuelan Ministry of Information also did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Moscow, Beijing and Tehran routinely deny allegations of cyberespionage and subterfuge. The new report said Putin knew of…
Cybercriminals took advantage of WFH to target financial services companies, says Financial Stability Board report | IT Security News 14. July 2021 This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Home WiFi was an obvious target, but evildoers also knew to probe cloudy connections Criminals targeted security gaps at financial services firms as…
Global systems integrator Wipro has acquired Melbourne-based managed services provider Ampion for an undisclosed sum. Based in Melbourne, Ampion specialises in cyber security, DevOps and quality engineering services. The company was formed last year following the merger of MSPs Revolution IT and Shelde. Wipro said adding Ampion’s offerings in engineering transformation, DevOps and security consulting…
Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management Agency Says Blocking Outgoing Connections From Orion Would Have Stopped Malware Jeremy Kirk (jeremy_kirk) • June 22, 2021 Federal agencies could have prevented follow-on attacks after the SolarWinds supply chain attack by using recommended firewall configurations, but this step isn’t…
Owners of Gigaset Android phones have been repeatedly infected with malware since the end of March after threat actors compromised the vendor’s update server in a supply-chain attack. Gigaset is a German manufacturer of telecommunications devices, including a series of smartphones running the Android operating system. Starting around March 27th, users suddenly found their Gigaset…