Cyber attack hits State Department in ‘possible serious breach’

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Researchers who discovered a massive flaw in the main databases stored in Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform have now urged all users to change their digital access keys, not just the 3300 it notified this week. Researchers at a cloud security company called Wiz discovered this month they could have gained access to the primary digital…
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…
Lawmakers and Witnesses See Expanded Role for CISA Following Attack Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • February 26, 2021 (Clockwise from top left): Reps. James Comer, Bennie G. Thompson, John Katko and Carolyn Maloney led the joint committee hearing on Friday examining the supply chain attack that targeted SolarWinds. A pair of U.S. House committees…
Black Kingdom Ransomware Hunting Unpatched Microsoft Exchange Servers | IT Security News 25. March 2021 More than a week after Microsoft released a one-click mitigation tool to mitigate cyberattacks targeting on-premises Exchange servers, the company disclosed that patches have been applied to 92% of all internet-facing servers affected by the ProxyLogon vulnerabilities.The development, a 43% improvement from the previous…
E Hacking News – Latest Hacker News and IT Security News 5. September 2021 This article has been indexed from E Hacking News – Latest Hacker News and IT Security News Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center has published technical facts regarding a now-patched, 0-day remote code execution exploit affecting SolarWinds Serv-U managed file transfer service…
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…