The operator of the nation’s largest fuel pipeline confirmed it paid $4.4m to a gang of hackers who broke into its computer systems. Colonial Pipeline said Wednesday that after it learned of the 7 May ransomware attack, the company took its pipeline system offline and needed to do everything in its power to restart it…
Colonial Pipeline CEO explains his decision to pay ransom | IT Security News 20. May 2021 This article has been indexed from Cybersecurity The CEO of Colonial Pipeline told the Wall Street Journal he authorized a $4.4 million ransom payment because executives were unsure how badly the cyber attack breached its systems and how long…
It’s been less than two weeks since a criminal cybergang group known as DarkSide succeeding in shutting down a pipeline that transports 45% of the United State’s gas and fuel supply along the East Coast, causing severe outages from Georgia to Virginia. While Colonial Pipeline slowly resumed operation last week, service will likely be impacted…
How private are Android apps? Security researchers discovered 23 mobile applications leaking the personal data of their users, and making it public to the open internet. According to a new Check Point research, chat messages, emails, locations, passwords, photos, and other personal details associated with several Android apps can be accessed by anyone with internet…
This week Microsoft finally took a step that’s been years in the making: The company said it will retire its embattled Internet Explorer web browser on June 15, 2022. IE launched in 1995 and came preinstalled on every Windows device for almost 20 years beginning in 1997. But its ubiquity should not be confused with…
After examining 23 Android applications, mobile app developers potentially exposed personal data of over 100 million users through a variety of misconfigurations of third-party cloud services, a report said on Thursday. According to Check Point Research (CPR), it recently discovered that in the last few months, many application developers have left their data and millions…
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Executive Summary This vulnerability is currently undergoing analysis and not all information is available. Please check back soon to view the completed vulnerability summary Informations Name CVE-2021-1531 First vendor Publication 2021-05-22 Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2021-05-22 Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3 Cvss vector : N/A Overall CVSS Score NA Base Score NA Environmental Score NA…
Events , Governance & Risk Management , Privacy Global CISO, Privacy Officer Seeks to Always Push the Envelope Tom Field (SecurityEditor) • May 20, 2021 Rebecca Wynn, Global CISO and Privacy Officer As a global CISO and privacy officer, Rebecca Wynn has earned her…
Threat actors are cashing in on the rapid shift to cloud-based business services during the pandemic, by hiding behind ubiquitous, trusted services from Microsoft and Google to make their email phishing scams look legit. And it’s working. In fact, in the first three months of 2021 alone, researchers….
