The rollout of coronavirus vaccines in Europe is “unacceptably slow” the World Health Organization’s director for Europe Dr Hans Kluge has said in a statement. Speaking to BBC World News he said: “Four months ago the WHO approved the first vaccines which means the de facto Covid-19 has become a vaccine preventable disease.” Delaying the…
The sentencing of seven of Hong Kong’s most prominent pro-democracy campaigners for unlawful assembly will send a message not just to Hong Kong, but to Beijing and the rest of the world about whether there is still an independent judiciary, the former Democratic Party chairperson and legislator Emily Lau has said. “We would like to…
Alexander Matheou, the Asia Pacific director of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies says aid workers are facing intimidation and attacks in Myanmar, also known as Burma. He told BBC World News that more than 30 incidents on health workers had been recorded although most of the Myanmar Red Cross activity…
An unknown malicious actor has compromised the official PHP Git repository in attempt to add backdoors to the code base of the PHP project. According to PHP programming language developer and maintainer Nikita Popov, the incident took place last Saturday, on March 28. He said that two malicious commits were pushed to the…
MobiKwik CEO Bipin Preet Singh on Tuesday said the company is investigating claims of some users that their data was available on the dark web. He said the company would get a third party to conduct a forensic data security audit. Responding to reports of a massive data breach in MobiKwik’s servers, Singh came…
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Cyber NIST issues draft election security framework By Justin Katz Mar 31, 2021 To help local election officials prepare for and respond to cyber threats, the National Institute of Standards and Technology has published a draft framework that takes NIST’s pre-existing cybersecurity best practices and applies them to the voting equipment and information systems…
In yet another instance of a software supply chain attack, someone hacked the official Git server of the PHP programming language and pushed unauthorized updates to insert a secret backdoor into its source code.The two malicious commits were pushed to the self-hosted “php-src” repository hosted on the git.php.net server, illicitly using the names of Rasmus…
Application Security , Governance & Risk Management , IT Risk Management Experts Note Patching Alone Will Not Mitigate Threats Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • March 31, 2021 Although SolarWinds has released a second round of patches for flaws in its Orion network monitoring platform that was targeted in a supply chain attack, some security…
Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Endpoint Security , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Agency Describes How to Apply Its Cybersecurity Framework Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • March 30, 2021 The National Institute of Standards and Technology has drafted guidelines for how to use its cybersecurity framework to address cyberthreats and other security issues that can…
