Ransomware Cyber Attack on Molson Coors | IT Security News 12. March 2021 Brewery company Molson Coors has made it official that its IT infrastructure was reigning under a major cyber attack that has brought its Beverage production to a complete standstill. According to an update released through SEC filing, the company acknowledged the attack…
Endpoint Security , Governance & Risk Management , Internet of Things Security ‘Arson Cat’ Hacker Tillie Kottmann Says She’s Not Worried About Law Enforcement Jeremy Kirk (jeremy_kirk) • March 12, 2021 Photo: Verkada Tales of unsecure internet-connected cameras come along regularly. But the latest installment seems especially egregious because it involves California-based Verkada,…
A massive Covid financial relief plan will mean many Americans getting cheques for $1,400 (£1,008). Donna Kelly-Yu told BBC World News of the relief she felt, knowing the money was coming. Donna was laid off from her job as an order taker and cashier at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas last March. She said the…
There is no clear reason to link the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine with blood clots, the professor of European Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine has said. Prof Martin McKee told BBC World News the countries suspending use of the vaccine were being “ultra cautious”. He said people should be “reasonably…
Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management , Governance & Risk Management $2 Billion for Security and IT, Rather Than $10 Billion as Originally Proposed Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • March 11, 2021 President Joe Biden in the Oval Office (Source: Wikipedia) The $1.9 trillion economic relief package known as the American Rescue…
The European Union approved the use of the Johnson & Johnson’s single dose coronavirus vaccine on Thursday, making it the fourth jab to be used in the EU. Johnson and Johnson’s chief scientific officer Paul Stoffels told BBC World News that they would start delivering the vaccine to the EU in the second half of…
Cybercrime , Forensics , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Some Attacks Predate Microsoft Being Alerted to the Vulnerabilities, ESET Says Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • March 11, 2021 Microsoft Exchange attack timeline (Source: ESET) Serious vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange have been exploited by at least 10 advanced persistent threat groups that have been collectively been…
BBC Click’s LJ Rich looks at some of the best technology news stories of the week including: Up to 150,000 security cameras were hacked in schools, hospitals and businesses – the company that makes the cameras is investigating Ride-hailing company Ola announces plans to build the world’s largest two-wheeler factory in India A robot uses…
COVID-19 , Governance & Risk Management , IT Risk Management Joe Nocera and Vikas Agarwal Analyze PwC Survey Findings Nick Holland (nickster2407) • March 10, 2021 Joe Nocera & Vikas Agarwal, partners at PwC The 2021 PwC Global Digital Trust Insights survey shows 96% of businesses will adjust…
There are more than 10 different advanced persistent threat (APT) groups exploiting recent Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities, according to ESET research. Last week, Microsoft released out-of-band patches to fix multiple zero-day vulnerabilities believed to be being exploited by Chinese state-sponsored group Hafnium. The step was taken to protect customers running on-premises versions of Microsoft Exchange Server….
