The White House is Deciding Whether to Support a Bureau of Cyber Statistics – Nextgov
The White House is Deciding Whether to Support a Bureau of Cyber Statistics – Nextgov
Even as Microsoft expanded patches for the so-called PrintNightmare vulnerability for Windows 10 version 1607, Windows Server 2012, and Windows Server 2016, it has come to light that the fix for the remote code execution exploit in the Windows Print Spooler service can be bypassed in certain scenarios, effectively defeating the security protections and permitting…
Business Continuity Management / Disaster Recovery , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Governance & Risk Management Information Handled by the Police Department Exposed Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • June 25, 2021 The city of Tulsa issued a warning this week that a ransomware group that attacked the city in May leaked more than 18,000…
Behind the strategies and solutions needed to counter today’s cyber threats are—dedicated cybersecurity researchers. They spend their lives dissecting code and analyzing incident reports to discover how to stop the bad guys. But what drives these specialists? To understand the motivations for why these cybersecurity pros do what they do, we decided to talk with cybersecurity…
Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management , Governance & Risk Management Agency Says Exploits Pose ‘Unacceptable Risk’ Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • April 21, 2021 The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has issued an emergency directive requiring executive branch agencies to mitigate by Friday the risks posed by a zero-day vulnerability…
San Francisco: Google which has announced to invest $10 billion over the next five years to strengthen cybersecurity in the US, said that the governments and businesses are at a watershed moment in addressing cybersecurity. The company has also pledged, through the Google Career Certificate programme, to train 100,000 Americans in fields like IT support…
Entrance to the Red Hat headquarters. The company’s distributions of Linux kernels appear to be particularly susceptible to vulnerabilities unearthed recently. (Red Hat) Three recently unearthed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel, located in the iSCSI module used for accessing shared data storage facilities, could allow root privileges to anyone with a user account. The trio…