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Governance & Risk Management , Patch Management Alert Urges Organizations to Patch as Vulnerabilities Are Exploited Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • August 27, 2021     Four months after Microsoft released the first security update for three vulnerabilities in several versions of its on-premises Exchange Server software – collectively called ProxyShell – the company has issued…

Unknown attackers recently attempted to carry out a large-scale supply-chain attack by introducing malicious code to the official PHP GIT repository. If the developers hadn’t noticed the backdoor in time, it could have ended up on many Web servers and led to the largest supply-chain attack in history. What happened with PHP The programmers who…

Google is still racing to pull Android apps that commit major privacy violations. Ars Technica notes that Google has removed nine apps from the Play Store after Dr. Web analysts discovered they were trojans stealing Facebook login details. These weren’t obscure titles — the malware had over 5.8 million combined downloads and posed as easy-to-find…

Matt Gaetz’s longtime friend and partner in alleged crimes Joel Greenberg has pleaded guilty to six of the charges against him: identity theft, stalking, wire fraud, conspiracy to bribe a public official, and sex trafficking of a minor. While all of those crimes are incredibly serious, that last one carries a mandatory minimum sentence of…

Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Liquid says hackers have compromised some of its wallets and stolen more than $90 million. The firm’s operations and technology teams detected unauthorised access to “warm” wallets early Thursday. Warm wallets are based online. Crooks took over $91 million in crypto assets, of which just over $16 million was frozen thanks…

LONDON : Hackers behind one of the biggest ever digital coin heists have now returned over half of the US$610 million-plus they stole, the cryptocurrency platform targeted by the hack said on Thursday. Poly Network, a platform that facilitates peer-to-peer transactions, said on Twitter https://twitter.com/PolyNetwork2/status/1425733950614360064 that, as of 0818 GMT, hackers had returned US$342 million…