Exchange Servers Under Active Attack via ProxyShell Bugs

Ne’er-do-wells leaked personal data — including phone numbers — for some 553 million Facebook users this week. Facebook says the data was collected before 2020 when it changed things to prevent such information from being scraped from profiles. To my mind, this just reinforces the need to remove mobile phone numbers from all of your…

John McAfee testifying via video during an extradition hearing at the National Court in Madrid on June 15. (AP pic) BARCELONA: Anti-virus software pioneer John McAfee’s lawyer said on Thursday he had seen no sign before the entrepreneur’s death in a Spanish prison that he would take his own life. Spanish coroners were conducting an…

Hackers with suspected ties to Iran are actively targeting academia, government agencies, and tourism entities in the Middle East and neighboring regions as part of an espionage campaign aimed at data theft. Dubbed “Earth Vetala” by Trend Micro, the latest finding expands on previous research published by Anomali last month, which found evidence of malicious…

Written by Tim Starks Jul 9, 2021 | CYBERSCOOP Ransomware has never been more of a national security concern after a string of hacks against the fuel supplier Colonial Pipeline, meat giant JBS and perhaps thousands of others compromised after a breach at a large IT firm. Few people, if any, seem to grasp the…

If you’re a member of the US military who’s gotten friendly Facebook messages from private-sector recruiters for months on end, suggesting a lucrative future in the aerospace or defense contractor industry, Facebook may have some bad news. On Thursday, the social media giant revealed that it has tracked and at least partially disrupted a long-running…

Governance & Risk Management , IT Risk Management , Patch Management If Exploited, Flaws Could Open Door to Theft of Admin Credentials Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • April 1, 2021     VMware has issued patches for two critical vulnerabilities in its IT operations management platform, vRealize Operations, which, if exploited, could allow attackers to steal…