With system administrators eagerly waiting for a patch to CVE-2021-40444, this month’s Patch Tuesday comes with fixes for 86 vulnerabilities, including those previously released for Microsoft Edge, out of which three are classified as Critical and 56 as Important. Two zero-days have also been patched, one of which is being actively exploited. Needless to say,…
Critical Infrastructure Security , Cybercrime , Cybercrime as-a-service White House Has Been Identifying Top Suspects and Sharing Intelligence With Moscow Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • September 15, 2021 U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin meeting in Geneva on June 17, 2021 (Photo: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia via Twitter/CC)…
Three former US intelligence operatives who provided hacker-for-hire services to the United Arab Emirates are facing federal charges in the US for conspiring to violate export control, computer fraud and access device fraud laws. Marc Baier, 49, Ryan Adams, 34, and a former U.S. citizen, Daniel Gericke, 40 are accused of helping the UAE government…
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday announced that it has appointed Kiersten Todt as its new chief of staff. Before joining CISA as chief of staff, Todt served as managing director of the non-profit Cyber Readiness Institute (CRI). She also served as president and managing partner at risk management consulting firm…
In order to bypass the possibility of getting hit by hackers, Apple just issued emergency software updates and is asking that everyone update their devices as soon as possible. On Sept. 13, Ivan Krstić, Apple’s head of security engineering and architecture, told the NYT that he is urging customers to install iOS 14.8, MacOS 11.6, and…
Three former US intelligence and military operatives broke America’s weapons export and computer security laws by, among other things, helping the United Arab Emirates hijack and siphon data from people’s iPhones, it emerged on Tuesday. US citizens Marc Baier, 49, and Ryan Adams, 34, and ex-citizen Daniel Gericke, 40, were charged [PDF] with using “illicit,…
3rd Party Risk Management , Blockchain & Cryptocurrency , Governance & Risk Management Risk Assessment, Improving DevSecOps, Cryptocurrency Risk Research Drive Deals Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • September 14, 2021 Merger and acquisition activity picked up again in September with BitSight, Tenable and Mastercard all making deals. See Also: An All-in-One Vulnerability Management, Detection,…
E Hacking News – Latest Hacker News and IT Security News 15. September 2021 This article has been indexed from E Hacking News – Latest Hacker News and IT Security News On Tuesday, security experts revealed data about a high-severity weakness in the HP OMEN driver software, which affects millions of gaming laptops worldwide…
Breach Notification , Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Security Incident Exposed Personal Information for 54 Million People Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • September 14, 2021 Photo: T-Mobile Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey says her office is now probing the massive data breach at T-Mobile that exposed the personal information of 54 million people,…
Ahead of this week’s elections many opposition candidates have been prevented from running.
