Violence in the Israel-Gaza conflict was instigated by Hamas, a global Jewish advocacy group which supports Israel has said. The American Jewish Committee spokesman Avi Mayer told BBC World News: “It is Hamas that has instigated this violence weeks ago and just this past weekend called on Palestinians in Jerusalem to acquire knives and behead…
Hamas is co-operating with international mediators to achieve a ceasefire and calm, a spokesperson for the Islamist militant group which runs Gaza has said. Bassem Naeem told BBC World News: “The key is very simple, to withdraw the security forces from the al-Aqsa compound and to stop ethnic cleansing of Palestinian people from Sheikh Jarrah.”…
Cybersecurity Biden signs much-anticipated cybersecurity executive order By Justin Katz May 12, 2021 President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed his long-awaited executive order designed to confront the myriad of cybersecurity challenges facing the country — ranging from the supply chain attack that compromised nine federal agencies to ransomware that ultimately shut down…
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – Colonial Pipeline began to slowly restart the nation’s largest fuel pipeline network on Wednesday (May 12) after a ransomware attack shut the line, triggering fuel shortages and panic buying in the south-eastern United States. It will take several days for the 5,500 mile (8,850km) pipeline to return to normal operations, Colonial said,…
Critical Infrastructure Security , Cybercrime , Cybercrime as-a-service Company Says It Will Take Several Days for Supply Chain to Return to Normal Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • May 12, 2021 Source: Flickr Colonial Pipeline Co. announced Wednesday that the company had restarted its operations following a ransomware attack last Friday that had forced the…
Critical Infrastructure Security , Cybercrime as-a-service , Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks Cybereason’s Sam Curry on DarkSide and New Breed of Ransomware Attack Tom Field (SecurityEditor) • May 12, 2021 Sam Curry, CSO, Cybereason In April, Cybereason published a blog describing its research into the DarkSide ransomware strain that infected…
Cybercrime , Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Kaspersky Describes ‘Operation TunnelSnake’ That Appears to Have China Connection Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • May 12, 2021 Architecture of the Moriya rootkit (Source: Kaspersky) An ongoing advanced persistent threat campaign dubbed “Operation TunnelSnake” has been using a Windows rootkit named Moriya to…
Executive Summary Informations Name CVE-2020-23575 First vendor Publication 2021-05-10 Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2021-05-11 Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3 Cvss vector : N/A Overall CVSS Score NA Base Score NA Environmental Score NA impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA Exploitabality Sub Score NA Calculate full CVSS 3.0 Vectors scores Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2 Cvss…
Business Continuity Management / Disaster Recovery , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Governance & Risk Management Acting CISA Director Tells Lawmakers FBI, Not Company, Alerted Agency Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • May 11, 2021 Acting CISA Director Brandon Wales testifying before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security…
Governance & Risk Management , IT Risk Management , Patch Management Patch Tuesday Update: These Vulnerabilities Not Yet Exploited in Wild Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • May 12, 2021 Microsoft issued patches Tuesday for four more vulnerabilities in on-premises versions of the Exchange Server corporate email platform, one of which is a zero-day flaw….
