For the government to reach into private-sector systems to remove malware, apparently without the knowledge of the system owners, is unprecedented, said legal and security experts, and reflects the seriousness of the threat posed by the Microsoft vulnerabilities.
The alert about new exchange bugs come soon after on-premises Exchange customers were told to patch against a campaign actively exploiting a zero-day vulnerability.
The set of nine vulnerabilities in four popular TCP/IP stacks, including FreeBSD, show once again how complexities in the TCP/IP standards can ultimately leads to vulnerable products.
The announcement ends months of speculation over the key positions, during which time the government has had to face fallout from both the Solarwinds and Hafnium Exchange Server campaigns without leadership in place.
In the early months of 2021 the ransomware operators struck a series of European industrial networks.
The former head of the CISA advocated for the equivalent of block grants to state and local government to modernize IT infrastructure, which in turn would boost citizen services, business growth, jobs, “and yes, help stop ransomware.”
With a base of 400,000 clients, SAP chief information security officer said this of the alert: “We want them to be aware of what could be the art of the possible.”
A new report from Verizon also noted that 66% of professionals polled said the term “remote work” would die out within five years.
As the United Kingdom reignites the debate over data encryption, concern about trickle down impact to businesses emerge.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and FBI issued a joint advisory Friday that advanced persistant threat groups are scanning for vulnerable Fortinet products. “It is likely that the APT actors are scanning for these vulnerabilities to gain access to multiple government, commercial, and technology services networks,” reads the advisory. The APTs, which CISA…
