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A recent Forbes article has alleged the Indian government for abusing private technology against China and Pakistan. Earlier this year, researchers at Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky witnessed a cyberespionage campaign targeting Microsoft Windows PCs at government and telecom entities in China and Pakistan, the Forbes article read. The software used by the digital spies was…

Critical Infrastructure Security , Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime DOJ: Wyatt Travnichek Allegedly Accessed Cleaning and Disinfecting System Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • April 2, 2021     This is the website of the Ellsworth County Rural Water District in Kansas. The facility was targeted in an attack in 2019, according to the Justice Department….

Windows-Admins kommen nicht zur Ruhe und müssen das Betriebssystem aufs Neue durch die Installation von Sicherheitspatches vor derzeit stattfindenden Attacken schützen. Diesen Monat kümmert sich Microsoft zum wiederholten Male um Drucker-Lücken und schließt ein Schlupfloch für NTLM-Relay-Angriffe. Am Patchday im August stellt Microsoft knapp 50 Sicherheitspatches über Windows Update bereit. Drei Sicherheitslücken (CVE-2021-36936 Windows Print…

The UK’s new Cyber Security Council is being urged not to “squander the opportunity” provided by the new organisation. Commissioned by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), the Cyber Security Council was set up by the members of the Cyber Security Alliance. It’s aim is to serve as a single governing voice…

The ransomware attack against Colonial Pipeline’s networks has prompted the U.S. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) to issue a regional emergency declaration in 17 states and the District of Columbia (D.C.). The declaration provides a temporary exemption to Parts 390 through 399 of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSRs), allowing alternate transportation of…

Geico has filed a data breach notice with the California attorney general’s office, admitting that fraudsters had stolen customers’ driver’s license numbers from its website. In the notice, discovered by TechCrunch, the American auto insurance titan said that from January 21st to March 1st this year, bad actors infiltrated its website using information on its…