Breach Notification , Business Continuity Management / Disaster Recovery , Fraud Management & Cybercrime SEC Filing Predicts $10 Million to $15 Million Impact Marianne Kolbasuk McGee (HealthInfoSec) • May 5, 2021 SmileDirectClub, which sells teeth-straightening appliances, expects that a recent cyberattack, which disrupted the manufacturing of its products, will take a $10 million…
A new academic study has highlighted a number of privacy and security pitfalls associated with recycling mobile phone numbers that could be abused to stage a variety of exploits, including account takeovers, conduct phishing and spam attacks, and even prevent victims from signing up for online services. Nearly 66% of the recycled numbers that were…
Business Continuity Management / Disaster Recovery , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Governance & Risk Management Alejandro Mayorkas Says Attacks Increased 300% in Past Year Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • May 6, 2021 Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas About 50% to 70% of all ransomware attacks in the U.S. are targeting small and…
Today is World Password Day 2021, and while companies are touting the best password management practices, Google is hoping someday we won’t have to worry about them at all. According to the company, even the strongest passwords can be compromised. “You may not realize it, but passwords are the single biggest threat to your online…
Belgium”s parliament, universities, and scientific institutions have been targeted in a coordinated cyberattack. Belnet, the company that provides internet services to the country’s government agencies, said their network was “victim of a large-scale attack” on Tuesday. Unknown hackers committed a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack at 11:00 (CEST), Belnet said, designed to prevent the…
A Malian woman has recently given birth to nine babies – five girls and four boys at a clinic in Casablanca, Morocco. The nonuplets will have to spend “two to three months” in incubators, a director of the clinic has said, but both the mother, Halima Cissé, and her children are said to be doing…
Governance & Risk Management , IT Risk Management , Patch Management Qualys Says Vulnerabilities Open the Door to Attacks Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • May 6, 2021 Exim, one of the most-used message transfer agents, has issued patches for 21 flaws that could put thousands of users at risk of attacks, researchers at security…
The US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken’s visit to Ukraine represents a huge signal of support for the Ukrainian people and government, Nina Jankowicz, an Eastern European analyst and Global Fellow at The Wilson Centre has said. She told BBC World News the US had made clear its opposition to “Russian aggression” and its support…
Android users’ privacy at risk as Check Point Research identifies vulnerability on Qualcomm’s mobile station modems | IT Security News Sponsors Endpoint Cybersecurity www.endpoint-cybersecurity.com – Consulting in building your security products– Employee awareness training– Security tests for applications and pentesting… and more. Daily Summary Categories CategoriesSelect Category(ISC)2 Blog (323)(ISC)2 Blog infosec (13)(ISC)² Blog (351)2020-12-08 – Files for an…
Cybersecurity analysts Lloyd Macrohon and Rodel Mendrez have recently inspected a new piece of malware that they’ve encountered during a breach investigation. Dubbed “Pingback”, the malware uses ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol) tunneling for its backdoor communications and operates with various modes to escalate the chances of a successful attack. Pingback (“oci.dll“) achieves its purpose…
