Cybercriminals are scanning servers for the Microsoft Exchange ProxyShell RCE vulnerabilities after technical details presented at the Black Hat

Insurance company Geico recently filed a data breach notice with the attorney general of California. According to the disclosure, the breach occurred between January 21, 2021 and March 1, 2021 and exposed customers’ driver license numbers.  However, Geico did not disclose how many customers might have been affected nor whether the breach was limited to…

Security researchers from Eclypsium have discovered a total of four vulnerabilities in Dell’s SupportAssist software. As the software is pre-installed on the majority of Dell machines running Windows, millions of systems are at risk of remote attack. Eclypsium says that a total of 129 Dell models are affected by the security issues. The chain of…

Cryptocurrency platform Poly Network said on Monday that almost all of the $610 million (roughly Rs. 4,523 crores) stolen this month in one of the biggest crypto heists had now been returned by the unknown person or persons behind the attack. In a Twitter post, Poly Network said it had regained control of all the…

The head of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service has denied carrying out a cyber attack on software business SolarWinds which gave hackers access to large portions of the US government as well as hundreds of businesses. Sergei Naryshkin, the director of Russia’s SVR spy agency, said he was “flattered” by US and UK accusations that his…

Pegasus Project – how governments use Pegasus spyware against journalists | IT Security News 19. July 2021 This article has been indexed from Security Affairs Pegasus Project investigation into the leak of 50,000 phone numbers of potential surveillance targets revealed the abuse of NSO Group’s spyware. Pegasus Project is the name of a large-scale investigation…

Governance & Risk Management , Government , Incident & Breach Response OMB Memo Describes Steps Agencies Must Take to Report Cyber Incidents Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • August 31, 2021     Acting OMB Director Shalanda Young (Photo: U.S. Senate Banking Committee) The White House is ordering U.S. agencies to improve their logging capabilities to better…