From Click: Home car charger owners urged to install updates
Security vulnerabilities in two domestic electric car chargers were discovered by researchers.
Toll Group concedes it did not work with Australian Signals Directorate fast enough to fend off major hack
Toll was the only company contacted by the parliamentary inquiry that failed to rule itself out. A number of other companies hit by cyber attacks in recent years – Telstra, Optus, Atlassian, Qantas, Google Cloud and Australian Gas Infrastructure Group – said they did not believe they were the company singled out by Ms Noble….
Biden Issues Memorandum Aimed at Improving Cybersecurity | Foley Hoag LLP – Security, Privacy and the Law
On July 28, 2021, President Biden issued a Memorandum on Improving Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure Control Systems. The Memo recognizes that the protection of the nation’s critical infrastructure lies not only with government, i.e., at the federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial levels, but with critical infrastructure owners and operators. In addition, the Memo states…
PwnedPiper flaws in PTS systems affect 80% of major US hospitals
PwnedPiper flaws in PTS systems affect 80% of major US hospitals | IT Security News 2. August 2021 This article has been indexed from Security Affairs Cybersecurity researchers disclosed multiple flaws, dubbed PwnedPiper, that left a widely-used pneumatic tube system (PTS) vulnerable to attacks. Researchers from cybersecurity Armis disclosed a set of nine vulnerabilities collectively…
China securities watchdog seeks closer cooperation with U.S.
A Chinese national flag flutters outside the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) building on the Financial Street in Beijing, China July 9, 2021. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang BEIJING, Aug 1 (Reuters) – China’s securities regulator said on Sunday it will seek closer cooperation with its U.S. counterpart and will support overseas listings, after U.S. regulators tightened disclosure…
Netsurion Named Finalist for Top 10 MSSPs for 2021 by Cyber
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Aug. 02, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Netsurion, a leading managed security service provider (MSSP), today announced that it has been named a Finalist for the Top 10 MSSPs 2021 Black Unicorn Awards. The awards are hosted by Cyber Defense Magazine (CDM), the industry’s foremost electronic information security magazine. “We are honored to…
Apple stops signing iOS 14.7, blocking downgrades from iOS 14.7.1
A week after releasing iOS 14.7.1 to the public, Apple today stopped signing iOS 14.7. That means users who have updated their devices or iOS 14.7.1 or even iOS 15 beta can no longer downgrade to iOS 14.7. iOS 14.7.1 was released on July 26 with a fix for a bug that prevented users from…
CVE-2021-22446 – Alert Detail – Security Database
Executive Summary Informations Name CVE-2021-22446 First vendor Publication 2021-08-02 Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2021-08-02 Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3 Cvss vector : N/A Overall CVSS Score NA Base Score NA Environmental Score NA impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA Exploitabality Sub Score NA Calculate full CVSS 3.0 Vectors scores Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2 Cvss…
Cybersecurity Lessons from the Pandemic: Why Not
You might notice there’s no question mark at the end of the title. That is intentional. In a May 18, 2021 Opinion article in The New York Times by Dr. Sema K. Sgaier, with the title: “Meet Four Kinds of People Holding Us Back from Full Vaccination,” which is available at Opinion | Meet the…
Zoom Agrees to Settle Lawsuit Over ‘Zoombombing’
Zoom Video Communications, the videoconferencing company whose internet app became a mainstay of American life during the coronavirus pandemic, has agreed to pay $85 million and improve its security practices to settle a lawsuit claiming it violated the privacy of its users. Filed in March 2020, not long after the pandemic reached the United States,…