Business Continuity Management / Disaster Recovery , Critical Infrastructure Security , Fraud Management & Cybercrime House Committee to Probe Ransomware Attack That Led to Pipeline Shutdown Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • May 21, 2021 Reps. Bennie Thompson (left) and John Katko of the House Homeland Security Committee called for the hearing. After revealing Colonial…
3rd Party Risk Management , Business Continuity Management / Disaster Recovery , Critical Infrastructure Security ‘Free’ Decryptors and Promises of Retirement Plans Are Empty Criminal Marketing Spin Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • May 21, 2021 “The affiliate program is closed. Stay safe and good luck,” DarkSide announced in this May 13 note. (Source:…
Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Ransomware FortiGuard Labs Describes Variant, Which Is No Longer Active Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • May 20, 2021 New DarkSide code found (Source: FortiGuard) Security researchers at FortiGuard Labs have uncovered another DarkSide ransomware variant with destructive capabilities that enabled attackers to seek disk partition information and encrypt the…
What will be the fallout from the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack? How will it shape the threat landscape in the coming months and potentially years? The Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack appears to be reaching its final stages. As a refresher, the Colonial Pipeline company operates a pipeline transporting gasoline, diesel, and natural gas from Texas…
Events , Governance & Risk Management , Legacy Infrastructure Security BlastWave CEO Tom Sego on Re-Envisioning How We Secure Networks Tom Field (SecurityEditor) • May 21, 2021 Tom Sego, co-founder and CEO, BlastWave Inc. You can see it in the latest high-profile attacks: Security requirements are ever more…
A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas came into effect early on Friday. Both Israel and Hamas have claimed victory in the recent conflict. But it may prove “difficult” for Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to label the military operation a political success, says former Israeli deputy foreign minister Danny Ayalon. It was a case of…
LJ Rich looks at some of the best technology news stories of the week including: Google previews a skin condition diagnosis app, a 3D video chat platform and more at its online I/O event Volocopter unveils an electric aircraft for suburban-to-city commuters A robot learns how to climb stairs without the aid of computer vision…
App developers exposed millions of Android users’ data Mobile app developers potentially exposed the private data of over 100 million Android users, by not following best security practices when integrating third party cloud-services into their applications. Researchers from Check Point recently analysed 23 Android apps, including a screen recorder, taxi app, fax service, logo maker…
Check Point Research (CPR) discovered that mobile app developers potentially exposed personal data of over 100 million users through a few misconfigurations of third-party cloud providers. Personal data included email addresses, chat messages, location, passwords, and images and could be gathered from 23 Android apps. In the world of mobile application development, modern cloud-based solutions…
Forensics , Next-Generation Technologies & Secure Development , Security Operations CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna Says Clues Come From Analysis of Virtual Builds Jeremy Kirk (jeremy_kirk) • May 20, 2021 At the RSA Conference, SolarWinds CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna said intruders were in the company’s systems in January 2019, eight months earlier than originally believed. (Photo:…
