Mayflower: Ship to sail across Atlantic without a crew

Mayflower: Ship to sail across Atlantic without a crew

A fully autonomous ship will attempt a ground-breaking journey across the Atlantic ocean without a crew later this month. The Mayflower 400 will travel 3,500 miles (5,630km) from Plymouth in the UK to Massachusetts in the US, conducting scientific experiments during its journey. BBC Click’s Paul Carter meets the team behind the project to find…

Baron Samedit Tryhackme Writeup. This is a Writeup of Tryhackme room… | by Shamsher khan | Apr, 2021

Baron Samedit Tryhackme Writeup. This is a Writeup of Tryhackme room… | by Shamsher khan | Apr, 2021

This is a Writeup of Tryhackme room “Baron samedit” https://tryhackme.com/room/sudovulnssamedit Room link: https://tryhackme.com/room/sudovulnssameditNote: This room is free In January 2021, Qualys released a blog post detailing a terrifying new vulnerability in the Unix sudo program. Specifically, this was a heap buffer overflow allowing any user to escalate privileges to root — no misconfigurations required. This…

Experts Warn About Ongoing AutoHotkey-Based Malware Attacks

Experts Warn About Ongoing AutoHotkey-Based Malware Attacks

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered an ongoing malware campaign that heavily relies on AutoHotkey (AHK) scripting language to deliver multiple remote access trojans (RAT) such as Revenge RAT, LimeRAT, AsyncRAT, Houdini, and Vjw0rm on target Windows systems. At least four different versions of the campaign have been spotted starting February 2021, according to researchers from Morphisec…

CMMC Accreditation Body Appoints Melanie Kyle Gingrich as First Vice President for Training and Development

[ This article was originally published here ] BETHESDA, Md.–()–The (CMMC-AB) today announced the selection of Melanie Kyle Gingrich as the CMMC-AB’s first vice president for training and development. In this role, Ms. Gingrich will oversee the day-to-day development and management of the CMMC-AB training, education, and curricula management programs to support and ensure the…

CMMC board adds new training head, board members — FCW

CMMC board adds new training head, board members — FCW

Defense CMMC board adds new training head, board members By Lauren C. Williams May 16, 2021   The governing body for the Defense Department’s unified cybersecurity standard has a new training lead. Melanie Kyle Gingrich will take over training daily operations for the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Accreditation Body as the vice president…

Hackers Using Microsoft Build Engine to Deliver Malware Filelessly

Hackers Using Microsoft Build Engine to Deliver Malware Filelessly

Threat actors are abusing Microsoft Build Engine (MSBuild) to filelessly deliver remote access trojans and password-stealing malware on targeted Windows systems. The actively ongoing campaign is said to have emerged last month, researchers from cybersecurity firm Anomali said on Thursday, adding the malicious build files came embedded with encoded executables and shellcode that deploy backdoors,…

Trump ‘unhinged’, says Republican election official

Trump ‘unhinged’, says Republican election official

“Enough with the defamation. Enough with the unfounded allegations,” Richer tweeted on Thursday. “I came to this office to competently, fairly, and lawfully administer the duties of the office. Not to be accused by own party of shredding ballots and deleting files for an election I didn’t run. Enough.” Loading The board, led by Republican…

Toshiba unit hacked by DarkSide, conglomerate to undergo strategic review

Toshiba unit hacked by DarkSide, conglomerate to undergo strategic review

A Toshiba Corp (6502.T) unit said it was hacked by the DarkSide ransomware group, overshadowing an announcement of a strategic review for the Japanese conglomerate under pressure from activist shareholders to seek out suitors. Toshiba Tec Corp (6588.T), which makes products such as bar code printers and is valued at $2.3 billion, was hacked by…

Ransomware Attack Leads to IT Shutdown for Irish Hospitals

Ransomware Attack Leads to IT Shutdown for Irish Hospitals

Business Continuity Management / Disaster Recovery , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Governance & Risk Management Conti Ransomware Blamed; No Ransom Paid Tony Morbin (@tonymorbin) • May 14, 2021     Rotunda Hospital Dublin, where the attack was spotted (Photo: Rotunda Hospital) Watch for updates on this developing story. See Also: Live Webinar | Software…