There is excitement in Ghana at becoming the first country to receive coronavirus vaccines through the Covax vaccine-sharing initiative, the One campaign’s executive director for Africa has said. Edwin Ikhuoria told BBC World News the delivery of the vaccine had been long awaited and was welcome news. The Covax programme was set up by World…
Nearly eight in 10 businesses globally feel that the pandemic has increased the likelihood of a state-led or -sponsored cyberattack on their organisation, revealed a new survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and the Cybersecurity Tech Accord on Monday. The businesses call for greater international political cooperation to mitigate these state-sponsored threats. The survey…
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has said that the Johnson & Johnson single-dose vaccine appears to be safe and effective at preventing serious illness. The announcement paves the way for the drug to be approved later this week. If approved it will be the third Covid-19 vaccine to be authorised in the US….
Feb 23 (Reuters) – Top executives at Texas-based software company SolarWinds, digital giant Microsoft and cybersecurity firms FireEye and CrowdStrike are expected on Tuesday to defend their companies’ responses to a sprawling series of breaches blamed on Russian hackers when they face the U.S. Senate’s Select Committee on Intelligence. The four are expected to argue…
A former British diplomat and long-standing friend of Myanmar’s elected leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, says he has heard nothing from her since she was put under house arrest. Sir Robert Cooper told BBC World News: “I don’t know how she is. She’s kind of use to this. She doesn’t give in easily, but what…
Researchers: ‘Jian’ Hacking Tool Targeted Zero-Day Flaw in Windows Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • February 22, 2021 A Chinese hacking group reportedly “cloned” and deployed a zero-day exploit developed by the U.S. National Security Agency’s Equation Group before Microsoft patched the Windows vulnerability that was being exploited in 2017, according to an analysis published…
The New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) has issued an alert to instant-quote websites, particularly car insurers, warning of a growing campaign to steal nonpublic information (NPI). The agency says it learned of the threat after receiving reports from auto insurers that cybercriminals were targeting their premium quote sites to steal driver’s license numbers….
The hacking group behind the recent cyber-attack targeting Accellion’s FTA file transfer service appears to be linked to a threat actor known as FIN11, security researchers with FireEye’s Mandiant division reveal. The attacks on FTA, a soon-to-be-retired service, started in mid-December 2020 and resulted in the compromise of data pertaining to multiple Accellion customers. As…
During the 1980s the BBC ran the Computer Literacy Project exploring the world of computing. A series of home computers known as BBC Micros were created and viewers were taught how to program them. The project helped inspire a generation of coders. The BBC’s Alex Humphrey’s visits the National Computing Museum to find out more….
At the beginning of the week, Accellion File Transfer Appliance (FTA) was subject to a security breach and extortion campaign orchestrated by the FIN11 group. Following the attacks, Accellion issued an official statement announcing that they have patched four FTA vulnerabilities that were known to be exploited by the threat actors, and incorporated new monitoring…
