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…
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The Department of Defense expands its vulnerability disclosure program to include a broad range of new targets. The Department of Defense (DoD) has expanded its vulnerability disclosure program to include all publicly accessible defense information systems, officials announced this week. This program stems out of Hack the Pentagon, the first-ever federal bug bounty program the DoD…
DDoS Protection , Incident & Breach Response , Security Operations ISP Belnet Targeted by Waves of Attacks Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • May 5, 2021 The websites of about 200 public and private entities in Belgium were knocked fully or partially offline Tuesday by a distributed denial-of-service attack against the publicly funded internet service…
Ethical hackers now have many more targets within the Defense Department, DOD officials announced. The department is expanding its Vulnerability Disclosure Program to include all publicly accessible DOD information systems. The program grew out of the success of the “Hack the Pentagon” initiative that began in 2016. That initiative enabled the Defense Digital Service…
