The White House Is Deciding Whether to Support a Bureau of Cyber Statistics
The White House Is Deciding Whether to Support a Bureau of Cyber Statistics
Recently, APT group or the state-sponsored hackers have exploited the vulnerabilities in an unpatched Fortinet VPN to compromise the webserver of a U.S. municipal government web server, as reported by the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation). The APT (Advanced Persistent Threat) hackers created new servers, domain controllers, and workstation user accounts just after gaining access…
In its April slate of patches, Microsoft rolled out fixes for a total of 114 security flaws, including an actively exploited zero-day and four remote code execution bugs in Exchange Server. Of the 114 flaws, 19 are rated as Critical, 88 are rated Important, and one is rated Moderate in severity. Chief among them is…
The prosecutor tasked with examining the U.S. government’s investigation into Russian election interference charged a prominent cybersecurity lawyer on Thursday with making a false statement to the FBI. The case against the attorney, Michael Sussmann, is just the second prosecution brought by special counsel John Durham in two-and-a-half years of work. Yet neither case brought…
(Pocket-lint) – The second major hotfix for Cyberpunk 2077 has been delayed to late March. CD Projekt Red claims this is due to the recent, major cyber attack on its IT infrastructure. Posting on Twitter, the developer cites the ransomware attack on its systems and theft of code as the reason the promised patch 1.2…
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…
History Shows Threats Ramp Up When Businesses Shut Down Labor Day weekend is upon us. Unfortunately, history has shown that, rather than resting, hackers and other threat actors take advantage of holidays to attack closed or understaffed businesses when they least expect it. To remind businesses not to let their guard down over the holiday…