Collaborate Disseminate
The vulnerability used in the attack against the federal agency is well-known and among the top exploits in 2021.
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Exposed users could be in the millions.
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The breach is separate from the SolarWinds fallout and had not been previously publicly disclosed.
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The details are part of an effort to help defend critical infrastructure “and our democratic values and institutions,” a spokesperson said.
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The ransomware-induced disruption of Colonial Pipeline, which supplies 45% of fuel consumed on the East Coast, has already forced big changes to U.S. government policies on pipeline security and brought heightened scrutiny of organizations’ decisions to pay hackers ransoms. Now, the incident has factored into one prominent security firm’s decision to change how it publicly classifies the relationship between criminal hacking groups and the governments that host them. Talos, the threat intelligence unit of Cisco, said Wednesday that it would begin using the term “privateers” to describe hacking groups that aren’t controlled by governments but which “benefit from government decisions to turn a blind eye toward their activities.” Other cybersecurity executives have compared the safe havens that some governments provide cybercriminals today with 17th century piracy. “If it were the 17th century, and pirates harassing the English merchant fleet were ducking into Dutch harbors, at what point would the Dutch […]
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Last week Joseph Blount, the CEO of Colonial Pipeline, told The Wall Street Journal that he authorized the ransom payment of $4.4. million to the hackers who broke into computer systems and caused major disruption to the East Coast’s gas supply. In th… Continue reading Colonial’s Ransom Payment Indicates Severity of Threats
It’s the all ransomware edition featuring huge breaches at Toshiba & the VA plus a special report on the state of phishing security in 2021.
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Huge Codecov breach creates risk shockwave, selling security to budget-minded clients & your customer retention blueprint.
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Huge Codecov breach creates risk shockwave, selling security to budget-minded clients & your customer retention blueprint.
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