New data from Barracuda Networks reveals that hackers are taking advantage of the heightened focus on the COVID-19 vaccine and are increasingly using vaccine-related emails in targeted spear-phishing attacks.
CISA has issued Emergency Directive (ED) 21-02 and Alert AA21-062A addressing critical vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange products. Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to access on-premises Exchange servers, enabling them to gain persistent system access and control of an enterprise network.
A number of regional and local Red Cross agencies are holding a variety of virtual natural disaster preparedness classes in honor of Red Cross month in March.
Malaysia Airlines has confirmed it has suffered a "data security incident" via a third-party IT service provider. The company also said the breach had not affected its carrier's core IT infrastructure and systems.
Synopsys Cybersecurity Research Center (CyRC) researchers have discovered CVE-2020-27223, a denial of service vulnerability in Eclipse Jetty, a widely used open source web server and servlet container.
Bangladesh has embarked on the necessary preparations to deepen local supply chain for ePassports in 2021. The production and personalization center for the new ePassports in the capital, Dhaka, was completed in 2020 and it contains a data center and is equipped with modern personalization machines.
Positive Technologies security researcher Alexander Popov has discovered and fixed five similar issues in the virtual socket implementation of the Linux kernel. These vulnerabilities could be exploited for local privilege escalation, as confirmed by Popov in experiments on Fedora 33 Server. The vulnerabilities, known together as CVE-2021-26708, have received a CVSS v3 base score of 7.0 (high severity).
CEO and co-founder of social media platform Gab said the site had suffered a data breach. WIRED reported that the far-right platform had more than 70 gigabytes of data, and 40 million posts, leaked by a hacktivist who self-identifies as "JaXpArO and My Little Anonymous Revival Project."
CISA created the COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Physical Security Measures guidance. This guidance provides a non-comprehensive list of physical security resources available to the public to help facility owners and operators enhance their physical security to protect workers and individuals.
Research done by Finnish University discovers more insight into how coronaviruses spread on cruise ships, along with mitigation security and safety measures that companies can take to bump up safety.
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