Sen. Blumenthal wants FCC to get busy on telecom wiretap security rules

The subcommittee chair said the FCC has the ability to act now in response to Salt Typhoon targeting the 2024 presidential campaigns.

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Resiliency (Premium)

Quick: When you think about Windows, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? I bet it’s not security or resiliency. And yet, that’s the message coming out of Microsoft Ignite this week, that security is the firm’s top priority–left unsaid, that mea… Continue reading Resiliency (Premium)

ISC2 Security Congress 2024: The Landscape of Nation-State Cyber Attacks

CISA advisor Nicole Perlroth closed out ISC2 Security Congress’ keynotes with a wake-up call for security teams to watch for nation-state-sponsored attacks. Continue reading ISC2 Security Congress 2024: The Landscape of Nation-State Cyber Attacks

Brazil Arrests ‘USDoD,’ Hacker in FBI Infragard Breach

Brazilian authorities reportedly have arrested a 33-year-old man on suspicion of being “USDoD,” a prolific cybercriminal who rose to infamy in 2022 after infiltrating the FBI’s InfraGard program and leaking contact information for 80,000 members. More recently, USDoD was behind a breach at the consumer data broker National Public Data that led to the leak of Social Security numbers and other personal information for a significant portion of the U.S. population. Continue reading Brazil Arrests ‘USDoD,’ Hacker in FBI Infragard Breach

Alleged Anonymous Sudan leaders charged, prolific gang’s tool disabled

A criminal complaint says the group jeopardized lives via DDoS attack, with 35,000 attacks since the beginning of 2023.

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CrowdStrike exec apologizes in front of Congress over huge global IT outage

House lawmakers struck a sympathetic tone toward the company at a hearing where they nevertheless said nothing like that could happen again.

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CrowdStrike Overhauls Testing and Rollout Procedures to Avoid System Crashes

CrowdStrike says it has revamped several testing, validation, and update rollout processes to prevent a repeat of the July BSOD incident.
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Organizations are changing cybersecurity providers in wake of Crowdstrike outage

More often than not, a cyber attack or a cyber incident that results in business disruption will spur organizations to make changes to improve their cybersecurity and cyber resilience – and sometimes that means changing cybersecurity providers. T… Continue reading Organizations are changing cybersecurity providers in wake of Crowdstrike outage

Post-CrowdStrike Fallout: Microsoft Redesigning EDR Vendor Access to Windows Kernel

Microsoft is revamping how anti-malware tools interact with the Windows kernel to avoid another CrowdStrike faulty update catastrophe. 
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