Swedish Public Health Agency Says Disease Database Targeted in Cyberattacks | IT Security News 1. June 2021 This article has been indexed from SecurityWeek RSS Feed The Swedish Public Health Agency (Folkhälsomyndigheten) is currently investigating several attempts to hack into SmiNet, a database that stores reports of infectious diseases, including COVID-19 cases. read more Like…
Governance & Risk Management , IT Risk Management , Patch Management Vulnerability Affects Siemens SIMATIC S7-1200 and S7-1500 CPU Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • June 1, 2021 (Photo: Siemens) Siemens has released patches for certain automation products that have a critical memory protection vulnerability, which attackers could exploit to run arbitrary code to access…
Softpedia News / Security 1. June 2021 This article has been indexed from Softpedia News / Security Nobelium, the Russian hacking group responsible for last year’s big SolarWinds hack, has struck again. This time, it used cloud email marketing firm Constant Contact in a phishing attempt that compromised 3,000 email accounts across 150 companies, according…
Meat-packing Giant JBS USA Shuts Down Systems Following Cyberattack | IT Security News 1. June 2021 This article has been indexed from SecurityWeek RSS Feed JBS USA, the US subsidiary of the world’s largest meat processing company, said Monday that some operations were shut down following a cyberattack that affected its North American and Australian…
World’s Largest Meat Supplier Says Servers Hit in North America and Australia Jeremy Kirk (jeremy_kirk) • June 1, 2021 The U.S. headquarters of meat supplier JBS in Greeley, Colorado. The world’s largest meat supplier, JBS, says an “organized cybersecurity attack” has led it to shut down servers in North America and Australia, and…
UK online grocery retailer Ocado has been expanding its operations during the coronavirus pandemic. The company’s largest warehouse opened in 2018 and has 2,400 robots which pick orders from a range of 50,000 products. But they are also developing robots to work in other areas too including machines designed to collaborate with human workers to…
Industrial cybersecurity company Claroty has discovered a severe memory protection bypass vulnerability in Siemens programmable logic controllers (PLC) that could enable attackers to remain undetected while running code of their choice. Claroty has been able to achieve native code execution on the Siemens SIMATIC S7-1200 and S7-1500 PLC CPUs by bypassing the PLC sandbox within…
US President Joe Biden’s proposed budget includes US$750 million for the government agencies hit by the SolarWinds hack to pay for cybersecurity improvements to prevent another attack. The money comes on top of a US$500 million fund for federal cybersecurity as the U.S. government recovers from the cyber attack that hit nine agencies including the…
Recently, APT group or the state-sponsored hackers have exploited the vulnerabilities in an unpatched Fortinet VPN to compromise the webserver of a U.S. municipal government web server, as reported by the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation). The APT (Advanced Persistent Threat) hackers created new servers, domain controllers, and workstation user accounts just after gaining access…
Researchers Demonstrate 2 New Hacks to Modify Certified PDF Documents | IT Security News 29. May 2021 This article has been indexed from The Hacker News Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed two new attack techniques on certified PDF documents that could potentially enable an attacker to alter a document’s visible content by displaying malicious content over…
