Business Continuity Management / Disaster Recovery , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Governance & Risk Management Information Handled by the Police Department Exposed Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • June 25, 2021 The city of Tulsa issued a warning this week that a ransomware group that attacked the city in May leaked more than 18,000…
BBC Click’s Romana Kreider looks at the best technology news stories of the week including: Dating app Bumble temporarily closes its offices and gives its staff a week off to combat workplace stress An autonomous ship’s voyage to the US is cut short when it develops a fault and has to return to the UK…
Legendary anchor Katty Kay signs off from the BBC for the final time.
Security researchers have warned that at least 30 million Dell computers may be at risk after discovering multiple vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code within the machines’ BIOS. Security vendor Eclypsium said 129 Dell models were affected by the chain of four bugs, which have a cumulative CVSS score of 8.4 (high). “These…
A Berlin startup has disclosed a remote-code-execution (RCE) vulnerability and a wormable cross-site-scripting (XSS) flaw in Pling, which is used by various Linux desktop theme marketplaces. Positive Security, which found the holes and is not to be confused with Russia’s Positive Technologies, said the bugs are still present in the Pling code and its maintainers…
Cybercrime as-a-service , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Next-Generation Technologies & Secure Development Secureworks: New Group Apparently Waging Attacks Using Same Code Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • June 24, 2021 Ransom note from attackers using LV malware (Source: Secureworks) A newly identified threat group is using a repurposed version of REvil ransomware to wage…
Business Continuity Management / Disaster Recovery , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Governance & Risk Management Director of HSE, Nation’s Healthcare System, Describes the Costs Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • June 24, 2021 The recovery costs for the May ransomware attack on Health Service Executive, Ireland’s publicly funded healthcare system, is likely to total…
Diplomacy and co-operation between the UK and EU could help ensure easier travel, Portuguese MEP Claudia Monteiro de Aguiar has said. Her comments came after German Chancellor Angela Merkel said all member states should quarantine arrivals from the UK considering the dangers of the spread of Delta variant. But the MEP told BBC World News:…
Eclypsium has discovered a number of vulnerabilities, the combined exploitation of which allows remote code execution on Dell computers. The vulnerabilities affect the BIOSConnect feature of intelligent technology to maximize the performance of SupportAssist computers. The vulnerability chain scored 8.3 out of a maximum 10 on the CVSS severity scale. The cumulative exploitation of the…
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…
