Microsoft stands to receive nearly a quarter of Covid relief funds destined for US cybersecurity defenders, angering some lawmakers who don’t want to increase funding for a company whose software was recently at the heart of two big hacks. Congress allocated the funds at issue in the Covid relief bill after two enormous cyber attacks…
A lapsed domain registration tied to WeLeakInfo, a wildly popular service that sold access to more than 12 billion usernames and passwords from thousands of hacked websites, “let someone plunder and publish account data on 24,000 customers who paid to access the service with a credit card,” reports Krebs on Security. This comes after the…
Application Security , Breach Notification , COVID-19 Experts Say Increase Owes to Lack of Funding, Virtual Learning Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • March 15, 2021 U.S. public schools faced a record number of cyber incidents in 2020, with over 400 attacks reported. This led to a spike in school cancellations, as IT staff members…
Microsoft stands to receive nearly a quarter of Covid relief funds destined for US cybersecurity defenders, sources told Reuters, angering some lawmakers who don’t want to increase funding for a company whose software was recently at the heart of two big hacks. Congress allocated the funds at issue in the COVID relief bill signed on…
Critical Infrastructure Security , Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime PM Boris Johnson Expected to Present National Security Review on Tuesday Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • March 15, 2021 UK to build “a cyber ecosystem fit for the future.” Source: UK Ministry of Defense Ahead of presenting a long-term review of…
Critical Infrastructure Security , Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime PM Boris Johnson Expected to Present National Security Review on Tuesday Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • March 15, 2021 UK to build “a cyber ecosystem fit for the future.” Source: UK Ministry of Defense Ahead of presenting a long-term review of…
Security researchers discovered last week a new IoT botnet that deploys honeypots to capture attacks from rival botnets and then uses that information to hijack its rivals’ infrastructure. Named ZHtrap, this new botnet was built on an improved version of the infamous Mirai IoT malware. Discovered by the Netlab network security division at Qihoo 360, the…
The 2021 Oscar nominations are the most diverse Oscars ever, with nine of the 20 acting nominees from non-white backgrounds. And two women were nominated for best director – the first time more than one woman has been shortlisted for that prize in the awards’ 93-year history. Anna Smith, a film critic and host of…
Rising Demand for DDoS Protection Software Market By 2020-2028 | IT Security News 15. March 2021 Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is a malicious form of attack that disrupts the regular network traffic by overwhelming the website with more traffic than the server can handle. The main aim of this kind of cyberattack is…
A cyber attack took place at Molson Coors breweries based in Milwaukee. It looks like the hack was crippling, leaving the brewery unable to produce beer at this time. Molson Coors has a huge portfolio of beer brands, including the well-known Coors and Miller brands, but also Molson Canadian, Blue Moon, Peroni, Grolsch, Killian’s, and…
