Vulnerability
CISA publishes directive of known exploited vulnerabilities
November 05 by Beth MaundrillThe CISA has published a catalog of known vulnerabilities being exploited today
IOTW: Tokyo Olympics Suffers a Fujitsu-Related Breach
August 06 by Lisa MorganSome of the Tokyo Olympics victims had participated in a cyber security drill hosted by Japan's National Center of Incident Readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity (NISC), which was yet another victi...
2021 Top Breaches: Part II
July 23 by Seth AdlerQ2, 2021 saw the Colonial Pipeline breach, the JBS breach, fallout from the Microsoft Exhchange breach, a massaive Facebook data leak, another large health system breach and more municipal breaches.
Hacker Report 2021
July 05 by Seth AdlerDownload this report to realize: What motivates hackers to hack? What technologies are hackers working on? Which industries are hackers working with?
Total Economic Impact Of Security Operations Solutions
June 21 by Seth AdlerDownload this report to realize: Key challenges the interviewed customers experienced; Increased efficiency of prioritization and resolution of security incidents, resulting in $4.9 million in benefit...
IOTW: MacOS Security Patches Issued Again
June 04 by Lisa MorganThe latest exploit necessitated a macOS update to 11.4 on May 24, which prevents XCSSET malware from being installed on a user's device. The spyware is capable of recording Zoom video, taking pictures...
IOTW: University of California Schools Hit with Ransomware Attack
April 30 by Lisa MorganThe company released a patch for the 20-year-old product within 72 hours to the less than 50 customers that had been affected. In early February, Accellion stated it had notified all affected FTA cust...
IOTW: Facebook Data Leak Impacts 533 Million Users
April 16 by Lisa MorganFacebook has no plans to notify individuals whose information was exposed because the company claims it does not know who was affected. Despite the patch in September 2019, 419 million records contain...
2021 Top Breaches: Part I
April 02 by Seth AdlerQ1, 2021 saw the fallout from the Solarigate which of course began last year as well as the gargantuan Microsoft Exchange incident. Not to be outdone, nation state actors also showcased real world aff...
IOTW: A Thwarted Poisoning Attempt In A Small Florida County Serves As A Warning To Municipalities Across The Country
February 12 by Seth AdlerThe hack itself was unsophisticated in nature, but it exemplifies a big-picture problem that has concerned cyber security experts for years: internet accessible operational technology (OT). That conce...
IOTW: Russian Hack Deeper And Wider Than First Anticipated
January 08 by Seth AdlerSolarWinds' Orion update is currently inside of thousands of public and private institutions. Some have remediated the vulnerability. But Microsoft itself has noted in a statement that their investiga...
IOTW: Ethical Hackers Discover Several Apple Vulnerabilities—And The Payout May Reach A Half-A-Million Dollars.
October 16 by Seth AdlerEthical hackers recently participated in Apple’s vulnerability bounty program and scored big. Over the span of three months, five hackers, led by 20-year-old Sam Curry, uncovered 55 vulnerabilities. E...
