Ransomware Cyber Attack Forced the Largest U.S. Fuel Pipeline to Shut Down

Android users’ privacy at risk as Check Point Research identifies vulnerability on Qualcomm’s mobile station modems | IT Security News Sponsors Endpoint Cybersecurity www.endpoint-cybersecurity.com – Consulting in building your security products– Employee awareness training– Security tests for applications and pentesting… and more. Daily Summary Categories CategoriesSelect Category(ISC)2 Blog  (323)(ISC)2 Blog infosec  (13)(ISC)² Blog  (351)2020-12-08 – Files for an…

Three former US intelligence and military operatives broke America’s weapons export and computer security laws by, among other things, helping the United Arab Emirates hijack and siphon data from people’s iPhones, it emerged on Tuesday. US citizens Marc Baier, 49, and Ryan Adams, 34, and ex-citizen Daniel Gericke, 40, were charged [PDF] with using “illicit,…

Indonesian authorities have found no evidence that the country’s main intelligence service’s computers were compromised after a US-based private cybersecurity company alerted them of a suspected breach of its internal networks by a Chinese hacking group, an official said. The Insikt Group, the threat research division of Massachusetts-based Recorded Future, said it discovered the…

According to security research network UpGuard, the types of data included personal information used for COVID-19 contact tracing, vaccination appointments, social security numbers for job applicants. A default permissions setting in Microsoft Power Apps might have exposed data of 38 million users online, cyber security researchers reported. According to security research network UpGuard, the types of…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Cybersecurity at eight federal agencies is so poor that four of them earned grades of D, three got Cs, and only one received a B in a report issued Tuesday by a US Senate Committee. “It is clear that the data entrusted to these eight key…

There is an Input Verification Vulnerability in Huawei Smartphone. Successful exploitation of insufficient input verification may cause the system to restart.