What Does It Take To Be a Cybersecurity Researcher?

What Does It Take To Be a Cybersecurity Researcher?

Behind the strategies and solutions needed to counter today’s cyber threats are—dedicated cybersecurity researchers. They spend their lives dissecting code and analyzing incident reports to discover how to stop the bad guys. But what drives these specialists? To understand the motivations for why these cybersecurity pros do what they do, we decided to talk with…

Compromised Microsoft Exchange Server Used to Host Cryptominer

Compromised Microsoft Exchange Server Used to Host Cryptominer

Compromised Microsoft Exchange Server Used to Host Cryptominer | IT Security News 13. April 2021 Researchers say an unknown attacker is targeting vulnerable Exchange Servers with a payload hosted on a compromised Exchange Server. Like this: Like Loading… Related Tags: Dark Reading: Sponsors Endpoint Cybersecurity www.endpoint-cybersecurity.com – Consulting in building your security products– Employee awareness…

Iran Nuclear Facility Potential Cyber Attack – What Expert Says

Iran Nuclear Facility Potential Cyber Attack – What Expert Says

Iran Nuclear Facility Potential Cyber Attack – What Expert Says | IT Security News Tags: Information Security Buzz 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  (340)2020-12-08 – Files for an ISC diary…

Star Trek inspired device sees drones fly off factory line

Star Trek inspired device sees drones fly off factory line

A commercial laser cutter has been transformed from a 2D machine to a 3D all-in-one assembler capable of creating devices which can fly straight off the factory line. LaserFactory is designed to create functional devices and robots, Martin Nisser, PhD student at MIT CSAIL said. “We wanted to be able to fabricate something which required…

NSA Discovers New Vulnerabilities Affecting Microsoft Exchange Servers

NSA Discovers New Vulnerabilities Affecting Microsoft Exchange Servers

In its April slate of patches, Microsoft rolled out fixes for a total of 114 security flaws, including an actively exploited zero-day and four remote code execution bugs in Exchange Server. Of the 114 flaws, 19 are rated as Critical, 88 are rated Important, and one is rated Moderate in severity. Chief among them is…

Mossad behind attack on Iran’s nuclear site: Israeli radio cites intelligence sources

Mossad behind attack on Iran’s nuclear site: Israeli radio cites intelligence sources

Israeli public radio cited intelligence sources as saying that Israel’s Mossad spy agency carried out a cyber-attack on Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility. Kan Radio’s report, which cited unnamed sources, said the attack on Natanz was “an Israeli cyber-attack in which the Mossad was involved… [and] the damage to the Iranian facility is greater than reported”…

White House Names National Cyber Director, CISA Chief

White House Names National Cyber Director, CISA Chief

President Joe Biden plans to nominate Chris Inglis to serve as the country’s first national cyber director, Jen Easterly to direct the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and additional Homeland Security Department leaders. Lawmakers of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, where both nominees delivered input, praised their selection Monday.    Inglis, a former deputy director of the…

Microsoft patches new Exchange CVEs, credits NSA with discovery — FCW

Microsoft patches new Exchange CVEs, credits NSA with discovery — FCW

Cybersecurity Microsoft patches new Exchange CVEs, credits NSA with discovery By Justin Katz Apr 13, 2021   Microsoft on Tuesday released patches for two newly discovered vulnerabilities in on-premise Exchange servers, separate from zero-day exploits found in March, and the company is crediting the National Security Agency with identifying the flaws. “These new…

Biden calls on Russia to de-escalate on Ukraine in call with Putin

Biden calls on Russia to de-escalate on Ukraine in call with Putin

Xinhua file photos of Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) and U.S. President Joe Biden  U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday called on Russia to de-escalate its tensions with Ukraine in his phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the White House said. The president voiced concerns over the sudden Russian military build-up in Crimea and…