A senior official at the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has said that ransomware attacks in America are to be investigated with a similar urgency as incidences of terrorism. The official told news agency Reuters that cyber-assaults using this particular type of malware are to be prioritized more highly now following a passel of ransomware attacks against entities…
Executive Summary Informations Name CVE-2021-1525 First vendor Publication 2021-06-04 Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2021-06-04 Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3 Cvss vector : N/A Overall CVSS Score NA Base Score NA Environmental Score NA impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA Exploitabality Sub Score NA Calculate full CVSS 3.0 Vectors scores Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2 Cvss…
Cybercrime , Cybercrime as-a-service , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Company Shut Down Part of Its Network That Was Compromised Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • June 3, 2021 Japanese conglomerate Fujifilm has shut down part of its network after it was compromised in a suspected ransomware attack, the company said in an update on Wednesday….
Necro Python Malware Upgrades With New Exploits and Crypto Mining Capabilities | IT Security News 3. June 2021 This article has been indexed from The Hacker News New upgrades have been made to a Python-based “self-replicating, polymorphic bot” called Necro in what’s seen as an attempt to improve its chances of infecting vulnerable systems and…
From a bike lock which emits a foul smell if you try to cut it, to a motion sensor alarm and bicycle with an in-built tracking device, Tom Brada looks at some of the tech that could help keep your two-wheeler more secure. See more at Click’s website and @BBCClick
A survey of 15 countries has shown that anxieties about side effects and uncertainties around safety are the main reasons for coronavirus vaccine hesitancy. Imperial College London’s Melanie Leis, who co-led the project, told BBC World News that in the vast majority of countries surveyed more than 50% of the population had trust in the…
Attempts to stop Hongkongers marking the 32nd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown is having the opposite effect of what was intended, the managing director of the Hong Kong Democracy Council, Samuel Chu, has said. A public vigil to mark the anniversary has been banned by Hong Kong for the second year running citing coronavirus…
Nasa has said it will send two missions to Venus at the end of the decade in order to examine the planet’s atmosphere and geological features. Dhara Patel, an astronomer at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich told BBC World News on Thursday that the missions could shed light on why Venus, which had very similar…
Endpoint Security , Governance & Risk Management , Internet of Things Security Low-Bandwidth Network Can Share Internet Connections Among Amazon Devices Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • June 3, 2021 Devices such as Amazon’s Ring cameras will be part of the company’s Sidewalk low-bandwidth network. Internet of things security professionals are expressing concern over Amazon’s…
BBC Click’s Marc Cieslak looks at the best tech news stories of the week including: Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and the European Union announce a $1bn (820m euro, £710m) partnership to accelerate clean technology A drone films itself crashing into Iceland’s erupting Fagradalsfjall volcano A robot which can mimic the expressions of people around it…
