Afghanistan’s former central bank governor has said that he will not return to the country despite assurances from the Taliban that former officials can return with amnesty to their jobs. Ajmal Ahmady told BBC World News that the Taliban had been looking for him, knocking on doors at properties where he had previously lived. Mr…
The thousands of people impacted by the data breach are now being notified by Colonial Pipeline. Colonial Pipeline has discovered a data breach involving the personal information of more than 5,800 individuals. The data breach comes after the headline-grabbing ransomware attack in May. According to Bleeping Computer, Darkside operators collected and exfiltrated documents containing the…
Multiple Flaws Affecting Realtek Wi-Fi SDKs Impact Nearly a Million IoT Devices | IT Security News 17. August 2021 This article has been indexed from The Hacker News Taiwanese chip designer Realtek is warning of four security vulnerabilities in three software development kits (SDKs) accompanying its WiFi modules, which are used in almost 200 IoT devices made…
The cybersecurity mantra at Jefferson Health is “if we can’t do it well, we’re not going to do it” says Mark Odom, CISO of the Philadelphia-based healthcare organization. Such an approach has proved integral to Jefferson Health’s fast-tracked transition to a cloud-first, remote model to meet the demands of the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, by…
Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Governance & Risk Management Security Experts Size Up Impact of US Rush to Leave Afghanistan Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • August 17, 2021 It’s unlikely that the U.S. abandoning its embassy and other facilities in Afghanistan poses cyber risks, thanks to the emergency planning…
It seems like we can’t go a week without hearing about another massive security breach at a mega-corporation. This week’s shocker comes courtesy of T-Mobile, at least according to one self-reported hacker claiming to sell the company’s customer data. T-Mobile says it’s “investigating” the possible theft of data from over 100 million people. If true,…
Endpoint Security , Internet of Things Security Researchers: Kalay Protocol Flaw Could Affect Millions of Connected Devices Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • August 17, 2021 Example of how an attacker could exploit a vulnerability in ThroughTek’s Kalay protocol (Source: FireEye) FireEye researchers and the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency are warning about a…
Globally, 90 per cent of enterprises among those surveyed are yet to achieve their digital-first goals with 49 per cent admitting that cyber security is the top-most priority for their business, a report showed on Monday. While 45 per cent of enterprises lost productivity during the crisis due to problems of connectivity, 41 per cent…
Afghanistan has gone through a lot of transformation in the last 20 years and is a different country to the one the Taliban left in 2001, the author of The Kite Runner has said. Khaled Hosseini told BBC World News that his one sliver of hope was that the Taliban would realise the country had…
Breach Notification , Governance & Risk Management , Incident & Breach Response Firm Pays $1 Million Settlement After Regulator Says It Misled Investors and Victims Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • August 17, 2021 When is a data exposure not just a data exposure? See Also: Live Webinar | Password Management: Securing Hybrid Work…
