Governance & Risk Management , Government , Incident & Breach Response OMB Memo Describes Steps Agencies Must Take to Report Cyber Incidents Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • August 31, 2021 Acting OMB Director Shalanda Young (Photo: U.S. Senate Banking Committee) The White House is ordering U.S. agencies to improve their logging capabilities to better…
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) this week announced sanctions against several companies over cybersecurity failures that resulted in email accounts getting hacked and the exposure of customer information. A total of eight entities belonging to three companies have been sanctioned by the SEC, including Cetera (Advisor Networks, Investment Services, Financial Specialists, Advisors, and…
Former Afghan finance minister Omar Zakhilwal says there is no alternative to working with the Taliban. He travelled to Kabul after the city’s fall to the Taliban. Like the rest of Afghanistan he is waiting to see what the Taliban decide to do, but says he is in the capital trying to help form an…
Beheshta Arghand, an anchor for Tolo News, made headlines when she interviewed the Taliban just days after they took control of Afghanistan. Two weeks later, she has fled the country amid fears for her life. Arghand spoke to the BBC’s Christian Fraser about the fears she has for her country’s future.
A Taliban spokesman has been asked if women and ethnic minorities will have a place in the new Afghan government. In an interview with BBC Pashto, the deputy head of the Taliban political office in Qatar said women could continue in their work but in the top posts or cabinet there “may not” be a…
Finance & Banking , Industry Specific , Security Operations Regulator Cites Email Takeovers, Inadequate Incident Response Dan Gunderman (dangun127) • September 1, 2021 (Photo: Securities and Exchange Commission via Flickr) The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sanctioned eight financial firms for alleged failures related to cybersecurity policies and procedures, each stemming from email…
Microsoft today announced plans to launch Windows 11 on October 5th, inviting us to a world of exciting new features like rounded corners and a new default desktop wallpaper. As new named versions of Windows goes, 11 seems a smaller upgrade than from, say, Windows 3.1 to Windows 95, or from Window 8 to straight-up…
Boston Public Library Hit With Cyberattack | IT Security News 30. August 2021 This article has been indexed from SecurityWeek RSS Feed The Boston Public Library was hit with a cyberattack earlier this week that crippled its computer network, the library said in a statement Friday. There is no evidence that sensitive employee or patron…
The federal agency urges organizations to ditch the bad practice and instead use multi-factor authentication methods The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added the use of single-factor authentication to its brief list of bad practices that it considers to be exceptionally risky when it comes to cybersecurity. “Single-factor authentication is a common low-security…
Windows Hello is a biometrics-based technology that enables Windows 10 users (and those who update to Windows 11) to authenticate secure access to their devices, apps, online services and networks with just a fingerprint, iris scan or facial recognition. The sign-in mechanism is essentially an alternative to passwords and is widely considered to be a…
