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An attacker hacked into a Florida city’s water treatment plan and attempted to leverage that access to poison the municipality’s water supply. According to WTSP-TV, an operator at the water treatment plan in the 15,000-person City of Oldsmar, Florida … Continue reading Attacker Hacked into Florida City’s Water Treatment Plant, Attempted to Poison Water Supply
A cyberattacker attempted to poison a Florida municipality’s water supply by breaking into the city’s water treatment plant systems. On February 5, an operator at the water treatment plant for the City of Oldsmar in Pinellas County noticed someone… Continue reading Attacker Tries to Poison Florida City’s Water Supply
An attacker group published information stolen from two healthcare service providers in a reported attempt to extort them for money. On February 5, NBC News reported that a well-known ransomware group had published tens of thousands of files to a … Continue reading Extortionists Publish Data Stolen from Two Healthcare Service Providers
An attacker group published information stolen from two healthcare service providers in a reported attempt to extort them for money. On February 5, NBC News reported that a well-known ransomware group had published tens of thousands of files to a … Continue reading Extortionists Publish Data Stolen from Two Healthcare Service Providers
Popular chat apps sometimes use link previews as a convenient shortcut. Link previews are pop-up boxes you might see on a chat app or other social media platform when you share a URL. Link previews summarize the contents of the URL and display the name of the linked website, an image and a description of the […]
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Approximately one-third of organizations affected by the SolarWinds supply chain attacks weren’t actually running the IT management company’s affected software.
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Is a firewall a thing of the past? People have been questioning the utility of firewalls for years. Columnist and editor Roger A. Grimes wrote that “firewalls need to go away” in May 2012. Grimes reasoned this was because firewalls “have always been problematic, and today there is almost no reason to have one.” Is […]
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The United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS) warned that scammers are in the process of sending out fake COVID-19 vaccine invitations. On January 25th, Urology Cancer Research & Education (UCARE) Oxford reached out to the NHS on Twitter … Continue reading NHS Warns of New COVID-19 Vaccine-Related Phishing Campaigns
Law enforcement entities and judicial authorities located around the world succeeded in disrupting the Emotet botnet’s infrastructure through a coordinated takedown effort.
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order to prevent foreign malicious cyber actors from misusing United States Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) products. In the executive order, dated January 19, President Trump explained that foreign ma… Continue reading Last Hurrah: Executive Order to Protect IaaS Platforms from Malicious Actors