3rd Party Risk Management , Critical Infrastructure Security , Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks Review Confirms Disinformation Campaigns, But No Signs Hackers Altered Vote Tallies Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • March 16, 2021 A pair of U.S. intelligence agency reports released Tuesday conclude that Russia and Iran attempted to interfere in the 2020 presidential election…
Industrial cybersecurity vendor Dragos has expanded into Australia and New Zealand, establishing a new regional headquarters in Melbourne. Dragos specialises in detecting and responding to cyber threats that target industrial control systems, which are critical to the continued operations of power plants, water and energy supplies, and other critical infrastructure. The company expanded into Australia…
Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Forensics , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Hackers Used Backdoor to Access Production Environment Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • March 17, 2021 Email security vendor Mimecast, which was targeted by the SolarWinds supply chain hack in January, reports in a Tuesday update that the hackers used the “Sunburst” backdoor as…
Cryptocurrency Fraud , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Social Engineering Graham Clark Sentenced to Serve 3 Years in Juvenile Facility Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • March 17, 2021 Graham Ivan Clark (Photo: Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office) The Florida teen whom prosecutors call the mastermind behind last year’s hack of 130 high-profile Twitter accounts to…
The pandemic has shown that the US needs to rebuild its public health infrastructure, Dr Minor says.
Application Security & Online Fraud , Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Google Ad Leads to Malicious App Disguised as Telegram Jeremy Kirk (jeremy_kirk) • March 17, 2021 Jannis Kirschner, an independent security researcher based in Basel, Switzerland, searched on Sunday for the desktop version of the popular messaging application Telegram. See Also:…
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Augmented reality app, Museum Alive, is a continuation of Sir David Attenborough’s Bafta award-winning series of the same name. Featuring a Saber-toothed tiger (Smilodon), a flying reptile (Dimorphodon) and a sea creature (Opabinia), the app allows you close encounters with the animals and the opportunity to learn about the worlds they lived in. BBC Click’s…
The latest update patches a total of five vulnerabilities affecting the browser’s desktop versions Google has rolled out an update for its Chrome web browser that fixes five security flaws, including a zero-day vulnerability that is known to be actively exploited by malicious actors. The bugs affect the Windows, macOS, and Linux versions of the…
Several European countries have paused their use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine over reports of blood clots in a small number of individuals who have received the jab. But lives have been put at risk by not giving people the vaccine, the director of the vaccine centre at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine…
