3rd Party Risk Management , Active Defense & Deception , Critical Infrastructure Security Senators Asked Chris Inglis and Jen Easterly About Cyberthreats Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • June 10, 2021 John “Chris” Inglis is nominated to become the nation’s first national cyber director, while Jen Easterly has been asked to lead CISA. President Joe…
Electronic Arts, the publisher of the Battlefield series and many other popular video game franchises, has been hacked. On multiple underground hacking forums, Motherboard found hackers claiming they had taken more than 780GB of data from the company. According to screenshots seen by the outlet, the trove includes the source code for FIFA 2021 and both…
JBS, the world’s largest beef producer, has confirmed that they paid an $11 million ransom after the REvil ransomware operation initially demanded $22.5 million. On May 31, JBS was forced to shut down some of its food production sites after the REvil ransomware operators breached their network and encrypted some of its North American and Australian IT systems. JBS…
There will be a broad and deep agenda to be discussed between US President Joe Biden and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson ahead of the G7 summit, a former US ambassador to the EU has said. While there was some political differences between the two leaders it was important to focus on the important issues…
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…
Infecting mosquitoes with Wolbachia bacteria has reduced the insect’s ability to spread dengue fever by 77% in a trial, scientists have said. The Wolbachia bacteria persists in the mosquito population meaning the intervention only has to be done once to give a community protection from dengue for many years, the lead researcher on the project,…
Critical Infrastructure Security , Cybercrime , Cybercrime as-a-service With Nonstop Cryptocurrency Paydays, No Wonder Extortionists Love Ransomware Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • June 10, 2021 Ransom note for a REvil – aka Sodinokibi – ransomware infection (Source: Cisco Talos) Is it any wonder that criminals keep flocking to ransomware when their individual haul…
Beryl Voss is 88-years-old and is still very active – going hiking on a regular basis and volunteering twice a week at a food hall to help people who are hungry. She is also part of a study to find out why people like her have aged well and what scientists can learn from her….
Intel issued 29 security alerts to correct some severe bios firmware flaws for Intel processors, as well as in its Bluetooth products, the NUC Mini PC line, and in its own security library. Jerry Bryant, Intel’s senior director of communications, says the company is investigating these issues internally through its own security teams, as well…
Credit: Dreamstime Malware attacks against cloud containers are nothing new, but these attacks have primarily focused on Linux deployments because they are the most common and where containers were born. Now, attackers are targeting Docker deployments on Windows, and researchers have found a new malware program designed to escape from Windows Server Containers and infect…
