Israel allegedly takes responsibility for Iran cyberattack – IT Security News 12. April 2021 Iran’s main nuclear facility suffered a cyberattack on Sunday, leading to a large scale blackout at Natanz, which Israel now appears to be taking responsibility for. Tehran’s nuclear energy chief described the attack as an act of…
Biden Nominates More Ex-NSA Officials to Top Cybersecurity Roles – 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 (339)2020-12-08 – Files…
By Oleg Mogilevsky, Product Marketing Manager, Threat Prevention In 2020, 97% of organizations faced mobile threats that used various attack vectors. 46% of organizations had at least one employee download a malicious mobile application. These staggering statistics have been published in our newly released Mobile Security Report 2021. The report covers the latest threats to…
Zerodium Will Triple Payouts for RCE Exploits for WordPress CMS – IT Security News 12. April 2021 Zerodium is an American security company, whose main business is to develop and acquire premium zero-day exploits from security researchers and report the research, along with protective measures and security recommendations, to its government…
The Kremlin spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, said Russia would intervene to prevent ethnic cleansing of Russian speakers by the Ukrainian government, a risk he compared to the ethnic massacres of the 1990s Balkan wars, though there are no signs that such violence is imminent in Ukraine today. “The situation on the contact line in Ukraine is…
3rd Party Risk Management , Critical Infrastructure Security , Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks Additional Money Would Address a Range of Cybersecurity Issues Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • April 11, 2021 President Joe Biden is asking Congress to boost the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency budget by $110 million to help enable the agency to…
A satellite photo shows Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility earlier this week.Credit:Planet Labs via AP Salehi’s comments to state TV did not explain what happened at the facility, but his words suggested a serious disruption. “While condemning this desperate move, the Islamic Republic of Iran emphasises the need for a confrontation by the international bodies and…
Breach Notification , Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Social Network Attempts ‘Not Hacking’ Spin on Theft of 533 Million Users’ Details Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • April 12, 2021 The road to Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California Facebook has been attempting to dismiss the appearance of a massive trove of user…
Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management , Governance & Risk Management Chris Inglis Nominated for Cyber Director; Jen Easterly Tapped to Lead CISA Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • April 12, 2021 The White House has nominated John “Chris” Inglis to become the nation’s first national cyber director and Jen Easterly to lead…
As announced company Zerodium, it became more interested in the exploits for vulnerabilities in WordPress, allowing remote code execution. For these exploits, she is even ready to pay three times more than before – $ 300 thousand. However, exploit sellers should hurry up as the offer is only valid for a limited period of time….
