Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The US Cybersecurity Infrastructure and Security Agency and the FBI warned about the increase in ransomware attacks targeting the US K-12 educational sector. The US CISA and the FBI warned about the increase in ransomware attacks targeting the US K-12 educational sector aimed at data theft and disruption of distance learning services.

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Outpost24

DECEMBER 13, 2021

CVE-2021-44228: Critical vulnerability in Apache Log4j library. Mon, 12/13/2021 - 05:57. Florian Barre. Full-Stack Security.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2022

VMware addressed a heap-overflow issue (CVE-2021-22045) in Workstation, Fusion and CVE-2021-22045 products that can lead to code execution on the hypervisor. VMware released security updates to address a heap-overflow vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-22045, in its Workstation, Fusion and ESXi products. x, and Fusion 12.x,

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2021

American multinational computer technology giant Dell addresses a 12-year-old driver flaw, tracked as CVE-2021-21551 , impacting millions of computers. Hundreds of millions of Dell computers worldwide are affected by a 12-year-old vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-21551, that affects Dell DBUtil driver.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2021

MITRE and CISA announced the release of the “2021 Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) Most Important Hardware Weaknesses” list. MITRE and the DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have announced the release of the “2021 Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) Most Important Hardware Weaknesses” list. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 20, 2023

Luxottica has finally confirmed the 2021 data breach that exposed the personal information of 70 million customers. On May 12, the cybersecurity expert Andrea Draghetti noticed that a threat actor released data belonging to Luxottica speculating a new databreach. Luxottica Group S.p.A.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Palo Alto Networks disclosed a critical remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-3064 , in its GlobalProtect portal and gateway interfaces. “CVE-2021-3064 is a buffer overflow that occurs while parsing user-supplied input into a fixed-length location on the stack. 2021-11-10: This report was published.

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Threatpost

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The Q3 2021 report revealed a 4.5% increase in ransomware families compared with Q2 2021. increase in CVEs associated with ransomware and a 3.4%

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Cyber Defense Magazine September 2021 Edition has arrived. The Cyber Defense eMagazine for November 2021 We’ve, all of us, been through two trying years with Covid-19 – but, together, we’ve made it. The post Cyber Defense Magazine – November 2021 has arrived. There is no right or left, only up and down.

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Jamf

APRIL 27, 2022

A patch to Windows Server released in November 2021 to fix CVE-2021-42287 inadvertently broke binding of macOS devices to Microsoft Active Directory. Microsoft released a new patch on April 12, 2022 to the release channel for Windows Server to solve the problem.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

APRIL 30, 2021

The National Institute of Statics (“ INE ”) collects personal data from the Portuguese Census 2021 surveys. The Census 2021 data include personal data of potentially more than 10 million data subjects (the entire population of Portugal), including health and religious data. INE engages Cloudflare, Inc. (“ Cloudflare ”), a U.S.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 13, 2021

[link] pic.twitter.com/PpVJrVitLR — Rajvardhan Agarwal (@r4j0x00) April 12, 2021. According to The Record , the PoC code released by the experts was the same exploited by the security duo composed of Bruno Keith ( @bkth_ ) & Niklas Baumstark ( @_niklasb ) of Dataflow during the Pwn2Own 2021 hacking contest.

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OpenText Information Management

JANUARY 15, 2021

Some estimates place the growth at 12-14% for 2021, however trading conditions are still challenging and uncertain.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The FBI reported that US citizens have lost more than $68 million to SIM swapping attacks in 2021, the number of complaints since 2018 and associated losses have increased almost fivefold. In 2021, IC3 received 1,611 SIM swapping complaints with adjusted losses of more than $68 million.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Information Matters

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Nasdaq has released its annual Tech Trends report which predicts which technlogies will drive markets over the next 12 months. The post Nasdaq predicts tech trends for 2021 appeared first on Information Matters. Nothing terribly surprising in their list of 4 key technologies Read more.

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KnowBe4

DECEMBER 11, 2023

December 7, 2023 - The Wall Street Journal has an interesting perspective on K-12 Public schools suffering ransomware attacks. The number doubles between 2021 and 2022 to almost 2,000 a year. Here are a few paragraphs with a link to the full article:

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Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) held its Summer 2021 National Meeting (Summer Meeting) August 14-17, 2021. The changes are effective December 31, 2021. As a result of the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, the NAIC met in a hybrid format with attendees participating both in person and virtually.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Despite organizations’ significant spending on cybersecurity over the past 12 months, almost half (41 percent) of organizations experienced an employee’s mistake resulting in data exfiltration and 33 percent experienced a credential theft resulting in data exfiltration. But the bottom line is that more doesn’t always mean better.

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HID Global

MAY 24, 2022

Winter 2021 & Spring 2022 Releases for HID Visitor Management Solutions. Tue, 05/24/2022 - 12:50.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 12, 2022

According to FortiGuard Labs, potential victims of this RedLine Stealer variant are located in at least 12 countries, a circumstance that suggests attackers did not target specific organizations or individuals. 2021-11-26 04:34:54 2021-11-26 10:05:15 149.154.167.91 2021-12-05 12:06:03 2021-12-05 13:19:35 149.154.167.91

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 27, 2021

BitSight is a Leader in the Forrester Wave report for Cybersecurity Risk Rating Platforms in 2021. Black Kite is a Contender in the Forrester Wave report for Cybersecurity Risk Rating Platforms in 2021. OneTrust made our list, see who else did in the Top Cybersecurity Companies for 2021. Black Kite Cyber Risk Rating System.

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IT Governance

MARCH 25, 2021

Cyber Essentials certificates are valid for 12 months, so you are required to review your practices and renew your certification annually. The post How Much Does Cyber Essentials Cost in 2021? Alternatively, you can use our Cyber Essentials Plus consultancy packages: Get A Little Help Get A Lot Of Help. Renewing your certification.

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HID Global

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

4 Ways to Combat Critical K-12 Campus Security Issues. Wed, 09/08/2021 - 10:55.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Also Read: Best Encryption Tools & Software for 2021. We also look into the most dangerous strains today and predictions for 2021. Others go further in estimating ransomware will cost as much as $6 trillion per year starting in 2021 ( Cybersecurity Ventures ). Also Read: Top Threat Intelligence Platforms for 2021.

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IT Governance

JULY 7, 2021

The number of officially reported HMRC-branded phishing scams increased from 572,029 in the 2019–2020 fiscal year to 1,069,522 in 2020–2021, according to data obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. Avanan’s 2021 Global Phish Cyber Attack Report found that credential harvesting is used in 54% of all phishing attacks.

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Robert's Db2

OCTOBER 28, 2022

It could be said that preparation for migration of a Db2 12 for z/OS system to Db2 13 comes down to one thing: activate Db2 12 function level 510. If activating function level 510 gets a Db2 12 system ready for migration to Db2 13, what makes a Db2 12 system ready for activation of function level 510?

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Security Affairs

JULY 16, 2021

Google has released Chrome 91.0.4472.164 for Windows, Mac, and Linux that addresses seven vulnerabilities, including a high severity zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-30563, that has been exploited in the wild. The CVE-2021-30563 is a “type confusion” issue that affects the V8 JavaScript and WebAssembly engine.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 1, 2021

With one month left in 2021, the annual total running total of compromised records is to just shy of 5 billion. The post List of data breaches and cyber attacks in November 2021 – 223.6 In November, we discovered 81 publicly disclosed cyber security incidents, accounting for 223,615,390 breached records.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Below is the timeline for both flaws: Date Action 2021-11-18 A security advisory is sent to Zabbix maintainers. 2021-11-22 Vendor confirms our findings. 2021-12-14 A first release candidate, 5.4.9rc1, is issued. 2021-12-14 We inform the vendor that the patch can be bypassed. 2021-12-23 versions 5.4.9,

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Dark Mirai botnet spreads by exploiting a new vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-41653, affecting TP-Link TL-WR840N EU V5 home routers. ” reads the description for the CVE-2021-41653 flaw. TP-Link addressed the flaw on November 12, 2021 with the release of the firmware update TL-WR840N(EU)_V5_211109.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2024

“The investigation determined that an unauthorized individual(s) gained access to the Department of Public Safety’s network between May 12, 2023, and Sept. ” The threat actors have gained access to the Department of Public Safety’s network from May 12 until September 27, 2023. .

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Between February and September 2022, the group targeted the governments of two Middle Eastern countries and the stock exchange of an African nation. “Witchetty has demonstrated the ability to continually refine and refresh its toolset in order to compromise targets of interest.” ” the researchers concluded.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2024

pic.twitter.com/SXDeZ3I27B — Acer Philippines (@AcerPhils) March 12, 2024 Acer Inc. In October 2021, the tech giant was hacked twice in a week, the same threat actor (Desorden) initially breached some of its servers in India , then he claimed to have also breached some systems in Taiwan.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2021

CVE Number CVE Title Remediation Due Date CVE-2021-44228 Apache Log4j2 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability 12/24/2021 CVE-2021-44515 Zoho Corp. CISA also warns of a recently disclosed arbitrary file download vulnerability in FortiOS, tracked as CVE-2021-44168, that is actively exploited.

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