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Microsoft has warned that Nobelium is currently conducting a phishing campaign after the Russian-backed group managed to take control of the account used by USAID on the email marketing platform Constant Contact. The phishing campaign has targeted around 3,000 accounts linked to government agencies, think tanks, consultants, and non-governmental organizations.
According to a new survey, security operations center (SOC) and security teams are suffering from high levels of stress outside of the working day—with alert overload a prime culprit.
Radware’s recently released “Quarterly DDoS Attack Report, which provides an overview of attack activity witnessed during the first quarter of 2021, found that while the total number of attacks held fairly steady from the previous quarter, attack volumes were up dramatically.
The California light rail yard in San Jose saw 10 dead, including the suspected gunman, who opened fire on co-workers. According to the Gun Violence Archive, there has been 232 mass shootings thus far this year.
To keep pace with the ever-evolving security industry, ASIS International released an update to the Protection of Assets (POA) reference set. Refreshed to reflect our changing times and keep security professionals on the leading edge of best practices in the field, this collection is to assist security management directors and professionals responsible for corporate asset protection.
A web server hosting the domain for a local government in the United States was recently breached by advanced hackers taking advantage of old vulnerabilities in firewalls sold by Fortinet, according to an FBI Flash Alert issued. After gaining access to the local government organization's server, the advanced persistent threat (APT) actors moved laterally through the network and created new domain controller, server, and workstation user accounts mimicking already existing ones.
The Department of Homeland Security’s Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced a Security Directive that will enable the Department to better identify, protect against, and respond to threats to critical companies in the pipeline sector.
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