PHP’s Git Server Hacked to Insert Secret Backdoor to Its Source code

Governance & Risk Management , Patch Management Companies Address a Range of Vulnerabilities Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • July 22, 2021     (Image: Pixabay) A patch is forthcoming for a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Windows operating system that can allow hackers to gain a foothold. Meanwhile, Linux OS users also need to adopt system…

3rd Party Risk Management , Governance & Risk Management , IT Risk Management NIST, CISA Highlight Key Steps to Take Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • April 28, 2021     The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the National Institute of Standards and Technology have released a report providing insights on how to enhance supply…

LONDON/SINGAPORE/HONG KONG (REUTERS) – Hackers behind one of the biggest ever cryptocurrency heists have returned more than a third of US$613 million (S$830 million) in digital coins they stole, the company at the center of the hack said on Wednesday. Poly Network, a decentralised finance platform that facilitates peer-to-peer transactions, said on Twitter that US$260…

Mr. Biden says tone of Putin talks was ‘good, positive’ Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin sought to cool tensions in the combustible U.S.-Russian relationship at their first summit in Geneva on Wednesday. However, there was no hiding their differences on issues such as human rights, where Mr. Biden said the consequences for Russia would be…

Safe Security, a Silicon Valley cyber risk management startup, has secured a $33 million investment from U.K. telco BT.  Founded in 2012, Safe Security — formerly known as Lucideus — helps organizations measure and mitigate enterprise-wide cyber risk using its security assessment framework for enterprises (SAFE) platform. The service, which is used by a number…

Washington: Websites run by the ransomware gang REvil suddenly became unreachable on Tuesday (Wednesday AEST), sparking widespread speculation that the group had been knocked offline. The Russia-linked cybercrime ring has collected tens of millions of dollars in ransom payments in return for restoring computer systems it has hacked. In recent weeks it claimed responsibility for…