The federal government is pushing hard for agencies to adopt zero-trust cybersecurity architectures, with new guidance released Tuesday from the administration’s policy arm—the Office of Management and Budget—and lead cybersecurity agency—the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. The administration released several documents Tuesday for public comment, seeking feedback on the overarching federal policy from OMB and draft…
3rd Party Risk Management , Critical Infrastructure Security , Cybercrime CISA and OMB Creating Road Maps So Departments Can Adopt by 2024 Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • September 8, 2021 Source: Flickr The White House is preparing executive branch agencies to adopt “zero trust” network architectures by September 2024, with the U.S. Cybersecurity and…
3rd Party Risk Management , Application Security , Breach Notification Server Taken Offline Following Exploitation of Vulnerability Mihir Bagwe • September 8, 2021 Last weekend’s confirmed attack on the Jenkins project – an open-source automation server used in software development – using a recently discovered vulnerability in the Atlassian Confluence service, could be…
Critical Infrastructure Security , Cybercrime , DDoS Protection NZ CERT: Intermittent Disruptions at Financial Organizations Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • September 8, 2021 CERT NZ warns of DDoS attack. (Source: CERT NZ) New Zealand’s Computer Emergency Response Team, or CERT, says it is aware of ongoing distributed denial-of-service attacks that have disrupted services at…
E Hacking News – Latest Hacker News and IT Security News 8. September 2021 This article has been indexed from E Hacking News – Latest Hacker News and IT Security News Washington, D.C’s Howard University, one of the largest Black Schools in the United States, has canceled online and hybrid classes as it continues…
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Microsoft on Tuesday warned of an actively exploited zero-day flaw impacting Internet Explorer that’s being used to hijack vulnerable Windows systems by leveraging weaponized Office documents. Tracked as CVE-2021-40444 (CVSS score: 8.8), the remote code execution flaw is rooted in MSHTML (aka Trident), a proprietary browser engine for the now-discontinued Internet Explorer and which is…
The term “zero-trust” may sound gimmicky at first glance, but in reality, organizations are increasingly adopting this approach to shore up network security from multiple angles. Forrester coined the term zero-trust in 2010 to describe the idea that nothing is inherently safe and that everything must be continuously verified. You may have heard the motto,…
Howard University in Washington DC has been hit by a ransomware attack which has forced it to cancel classes for two days running. The university stated on Monday 6 September that its technology team detected “unusual activity on the university’s network” on 3 September which caused it to shut down its network to investigate the…
New 0-Day Attack Targeting Windows Users With Microsoft Office Documents | IT Security News 8. September 2021 This article has been indexed from The Hacker News Microsoft on Tuesday warned of an actively exploited zero-day flaw impacting Internet Explorer that’s being used to hijack vulnerable Windows systems by leveraging weaponized Office documents.Tracked as CVE-2021-40444 (CVSS…
