CISA orders agencies impacted by Microsoft hack to mitigate risks
CISA has issued a new emergency directive ordering U.S. federal agencies to address risks resulting from the breach of multiple Microsoft corporate email accounts by…
Month: April 2024
How One Industry Exemplifies the Importance Of Cybersecurity In Critical Infrastructure Assurance
And What We Can Learn From It By Brian Hesse, Co-Owner, President, and Chief Executive Officer of PerenniAL Summary Cybersecurity professionals, as with virtually every…
How to check if your data was exposed in the AT&T breach
AT&T has notified US state authorities and regulators about its recent (or not) data breach, saying 51,226,382 people were affected. For those that have missed…
PSNI criticised after “utterly vague” answers on covert surveillance of journalists
Police in Northern Ireland have been criticised by members of Northern Ireland’s Policing Board for providing “utterly vague” responses to questions about its use of…
US CISA published an alert on the Sisense data breach
US CISA published an alert on the Sisense data breach Pierluigi Paganini April 11, 2024 Business intelligence software company Sisense suffered a cyberattack that may…
How a Race Condition Vulnerability Could Cast Multiple Votes
Race condition vulnerabilities make up less than 0.3% of reports on the HackerOne platform. However, researchers have recently been particularly interested in experimenting with race…
Optics giant Hoya hit with $10 million ransomware demand
A recent cyberattack on Hoya Corporation was conducted by the ‘Hunters International’ ransomware operation, which demanded a $10 million ransom for a file decryptor and…
AI skills gap blocking public sector take-up
All industries are facing a growing skills gap that is blocking them from effectively implementing artificial intelligence (AI), but this gap is deepest in the…
Intel and Lenovo servers impacted by 6-year-old BMC flaw
An almost 6-year-old vulnerability in the Lighttpd web server used in Baseboard Management Controllers has been overlooked by many device vendors, including Intel and Lenovo.…
Taxi Software Vendor Data Leak: 300K Passengers Data Exposed
Around 300,000 taxi passengers’ personal information was left exposed on the internet, causing concern in the UK and Ireland. Cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered the…
How information can be protected in hotel data breaches
In today’s flexible holiday landscape, where travelers enjoy getaways at various times of the year, the hospitality industry thrives. However, recent incidents like the cyber-attack…
Facial recognition to play key role in UK shoplifting crackdown
The UK government is investing £55m in expanding the police’s use of facial-recognition systems, including a fleet of vans to scan crowded high streets, as…