Breach Notification , Business Continuity Management / Disaster Recovery , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Unauthorized Access and Malware Also Among Top Causes, UK Privacy Watchdog Reports Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • June 1, 2021 Overview of personal data breach reporting requirements (Source: U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office) Phishing, ransomware and unauthorized access continue to…
Business Continuity Management / Disaster Recovery , COVID-19 , Cybercrime Reporting of COVID-19 Statistics Interrupted Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • June 1, 2021 SmiNet, Sweden’s infectious diseases database, was temporarily shut down last week by the country’s public health agency, Folkhälsomyndigheten, following several attempted cyber intrusions. The Thursday shutdown interrupted the reporting of COVID-19…
Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Governance & Risk Management FBI and CISA Continue to Probe Campaign That Targeted Marketing Firm Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • June 1, 2021 The Department of Justice announced Tuesday that it has seized two domains that were used during a recent phishing campaign that…
France, Germany and other European countries demanded answers on Monday following reports the U.S. spied on its allies using Danish underwater cables, as questions mounted over whether Denmark knew about the operation. In an investigative report on Sunday, Danish public broadcaster Danmarks Radio (DR) and other European media outlets said the U.S. National Security Agency…
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…
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…
