India: ‘A broken country, a country in torment’
The country was too complacent in preparing for a second Covid-19 wave, journalist Barkha Dutt says.
Supernova Attack Leveraged SolarWinds, Pulse Secure
Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management CISA Describes APT Group’s Methods Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • April 23, 2021 Secureworks says the Bronze Spiral APT group was involved in the attack described by CISA. An advanced persistent threat group gained long-term access to an unnamed entity’s network through its Ivanti…
Prof Niklas Höhne: China cautious on climate change promises
The international community has made a good start in tackling climate change, says Prof Dr Niklas Höhne of the New Climate Institute. But he told BBC World News more still needed to be done and China was still cautious with its commitments. He said: “The developed countries need to go first and I think they…
Joker Malware Targets More Android Devices
Application Security , Endpoint Security , Next-Generation Technologies & Secure Development Trojan Spreads Through Malicious Apps in Huawei App Store Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • April 22, 2021 Huawei’s App Gallery contained malicious apps (Source: Doctor Web) Joker malware has targeted more than 500,000 Android devices across the world through malicious apps in AppGallery,…
India: ‘The worst humanitarian crisis I’ve witnessed’
A narrative of Indian exceptionalism led people to believe they were more immune to Covid-19, resulting in them taking fewer precautions and allowing the virus to spread rapidly in the country, the director of the Centre for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy has said. The country avoided a crisis last year due to a lockdown…
Hackers Exploit VPN to Deploy SUPERNOVA malware on SolarWinds Orion
Hackers Exploit VPN to Deploy SUPERNOVA malware on SolarWinds Orion | IT Security News 23. April 2021 The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has disclosed details of a new advanced persistent threat (APT) that’s leveraging the Supernova backdoor to compromise SolarWinds Orion installations after gaining access to the network through a connection to…
DNA-based robots designed rapidly and other tech news
BBC Click’s LJ Rich looks at some of the best technology news stories of the week including: Apple unveils a new iPad and colourful iMacs containing its new M1 chip Instagram says it will let users filter out abusive messages using a new tool Software which helps scientists quickly develop DNA-based structures complete with rotors…
Crooks stole driver’s license numbers from Geico auto insurer
Crooks stole driver’s license numbers from Geico auto insurer | IT Security News 20. April 2021 Car insurance provider Geico has suffered a data breach, attackers have stolen the driver’s licenses for policyholders for several weeks. Geico, the second-largest auto insurer in the U.S., has suffered a data breach, threat actors exploited a now-fixed bug in…
Call of Duty: Warzone goes back to the 1980s
The much-anticipated third season of Call of Duty: Warzone has been released, resetting the title to a 1980s-based storyline. Publisher Activision recently revealed that the online game had attracted more than 100 million players. BBC Click’s Marc Cieslak spoke exclusively to Rob Kostich, the firm’s president, about keeping those players interested in the free-to-play first-person…
CVE-2021-2293 – Alert Detail – Security Database
Executive Summary Informations Name CVE-2021-2293 First vendor Publication 2021-04-22 Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2021-04-22 Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3 Cvss vector : CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Overall CVSS Score 4.9 Base Score 4.9 Environmental Score 4.9 impact SubScore 3.6 Temporal Score 4.9 Exploitabality Sub Score 1.2 Attack Vector Network Attack Complexity Low Privileges Required High User Interaction…