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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added half a dozen vulnerabilities to its catalog of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities and is ordering federal agencies to follow vendor's instructions to fix them. [...]
The Singapore division of Starbucks, the popular American coffeehouse chain, has admitted that it suffered a data breach incident impacting over 219,000 of its customers. [...]
Criminal charges, more sanctions, and a $10m bounty, oh my The US has issued indictments against three Iranians linked to the country's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) for their alleged roles in plotting ransomware attacks against American critical infrastructure, and also sanctioned multiple individuals and two entities.…
Companies are in the midst of an employee "turnover tsunami" with no signs of a slowdown. According to Fortune Magazine, 40% of the U.S. is considering quitting their jobs. This trend – coined the great resignation - creates instability in organizations. High employee turnover increases security risks, and companies are more vulnerable to attacks from human factors worldwide. At Davos 2022,
The U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Wednesday announced sweeping sanctions against ten individuals and two entities backed by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) for their involvement in ransomware attacks at least since October 2020
Developers, why not simply build flawless software, thus solving all our vulnerability worries The White House has published software security rules for federal agencies and government contractors as part of a larger push to shore up IT supply chains.…
New executive order stops short of mandating NIST's guidelines, but recommends SBOMs for federal agencies across government.
Spanish speaking SANS experts can help the LATAM cyber community detect and respond to attacks Sponsored Post No matter how hard organizations in Latin America try to stop malicious attackers from infiltrating their IT systems, breaches are inevitable – as recent events demonstrate. …
The American Data Privacy and Protection Act would provide federal-level protections that don't exist in most states, but override existing, stronger state protections.
China has accused the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) of conducting a string of cyberattacks aimed at aeronautical and military research-oriented Northwestern Polytechnical University in the city of Xi'an in June 2022