CISO2CISO – APACHE LOG4J – THE MOST IMPORTANT VULNERABILITY AND DISTRACTION OF 2021 We are probably facing the most important vulnerability of 2021, but it can...
Month: December 2021
INFOSECURITY – Omicron Scam Targets Universities
Dozens of universities are being hit with a coordinated cyber-attack that uses news of the Omicron variant as a lure to steal login credentials. Evidence of...
Cybersecurity Incident & Vulnerability Response Playbooks
Operational Procedures for Planning and Conducting Cybersecurity Incident and Vulnerability Response Activities in FCEB Information Systems INTRODUCTION The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is committed...
theregister – Wind turbine maker Vestas confirms recent security incident was ransomware
10 days after attack ‘almost all systems’ up and running, refuses to say if ransom was paid The Register Wind turbine maker Vestas says “almost all”...
theregister – It’s the flu season – FluBot, that is: Surge of info-stealing Android malware detected
And a bunch of bank-account-raiding trojans also identified The Register FluBot, a family of Android malware, is circulating again via SMS messaging, according to authorities in...
helpnetsecurity – 150+ HP multifunction printers open to attack (CVE-2021-39237, CVE-2021-39238)
Over 150 HP multifunction printers (MFPs) are open to attack via two exposed physical access port vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-39237) and two different font parsing vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-39238) discovered...
helpnetsecurity – Alarming rise in cyberattacks against healthcare facilities, 68 attacks in Q3 2021 only
Last month saw an alarming rise in cyberattacks against healthcare facilities. Ransomware attacks across the globe locked 68 care providers out of their respective networks during Q3...
helpnetsecurity – Control failures are behind a growing number of cybersecurity incidents
Data from a survey of 1,200 enterprise security leaders reveals that an increase in tools and manual reporting combined with control failures are contributing to the...
helpnetsecurity – The ripple effect: Why protection against supply chain attacks is a must
The SolarWinds attack continues to send ripples across the world of cybersecurity. For the uninitiated, this form of cyber attack was like a gradual spread of poison, and...