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
Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management , Governance & Risk Management Move Away From Perimeter Designed to Help Agencies Battle Supply Chain Attacks Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • June 22, 2021 Acting CISA Director Brandon Wales The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency is moving its Einstein intrusion detection system deeper into federal…
Fancy Product Designer, a WordPress plugin installed on over 17,000 sites, has been discovered to contain a critical file upload vulnerability that’s being actively exploited in the wild to upload malware onto sites that have the plugin installed. Wordfence’s threat intelligence team, which discovered the flaw, said it reported the issue to the plugin’s developer…
Cybersecurity researchers on Monday disclosed two new vulnerabilities in Linux-based operating systems that, if successfully exploited, could let attackers circumvent mitigations for speculative attacks such as Spectre and obtain sensitive information from kernel memory.Discovered by Piotr Krysiuk of Symantec’s Threat Hunter team, the flaws — tracked as CVE-2020-27170 and CVE-2020-27171 (CVSS
Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management , Next-Generation Technologies & Secure Development Company Will Join Microsoft’s Cloud and AI Division Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • July 12, 2021 (Watch for updates on this developing story.) See Also: Live Panel | Zero Trusts Given- Harnessing the Value of the Strategy Microsoft announced…
Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management Coveware: Average Ransom Payment Hits $220,298, Presaging More Supply Chain Attacks Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • April 27, 2021 Average and median ransom payments per quarter, based on thousands of cases investigated (Source: Coveware) The zero-day attacks against Accellion File Transfer Appliance users…
Over one million CSV/JSON files with personal information of event registrants using Microsoft Teams – including phone numbers and email addresses – have been exposed to potential cyber-criminals worldwide. Security company Clario Tech, in partnership with cybersecurity researcher Bob Diachenko, discovered the exposure within EventBuilder, a virtual events integration tool for Microsoft products. Details can…