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DoD Lets Researchers Target All Publicly Accessible …
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 Attack Knocks Belgian Websites Offline
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…
DOD Expands Hacker Program to All Publicly Accessible Defense Information Systems > U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE > Defense Department News
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…
21 nails in Exim mail server: Vulnerabilities enable ‘full remote unauthenticated code execution’, millions of servers at risk
21 nails in Exim mail server: Vulnerabilities enable ‘full remote unauthenticated code execution’, millions of servers at risk | IT Security News 5. May 2021 Nearly 4 million to be exact, say researchers Researchers at security biz Qualys discovered 21 vulnerabilities in Exim, a popular mail server, which can be chained to obtain “a full…
PHP Composer Flaw That Could Affect Millions of Sites Patched
Governance & Risk Management , IT Risk Management , Patch Management Experts Stress Importance of Upgrading the Tool and Auditing Files Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • May 5, 2021 A patch has been issued for a serious vulnerability that affects PHP Composer – a tool used to manage and install software dependencies in the…
‘Rural India’s hidden coronavirus epidemic’
There are a huge hidden number of coronavirus cases in rural India, the director of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy, Dr Ramanan Laxminarayan has said. The majority of India’s population live in rural areas where there are few medical facilities, he told BBC World News. “You won’t see long lines outside hospitals…
Covid: Saving Indian lives is a priority, says BJP
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has not rejected coronavirus lockdowns but has left it to individual states to impose measures from curfews to full lockdowns, the national spokesperson for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Shaina Nana Chudasama, has said. “Each state is given the choice to decide whether they want to impose a curfew,…
A Vulnerable Dell Driver Might Be Putting Millions of Systems at Risk
From the data gathered so far, it’s estimated that hundreds of millions of Dell desktops, laptops, and tablets have received the driver containing the vulnerability through various BIOS updates. Collectively tracked as CVE-2021-21551, five flaws have been discovered in DBUtil, a driver from that Dell machines. Kasif Dekel, a security researcher at cybersecurity company SentinelOne,…
Covid ‘Lockdown is only option left for India to save lives’
India’s opposition Congress party is calling for a full lockdown in order for the country to get on top of the current wave of coronavirus. Spokesman Pawan Khera said the government had ignored the warnings of experts and been too slow to react to the scale of the current epidemic. He told BBC World News:…