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Government organizations are targeted by attackers who know agencies cannot afford disruption to public services
National Risk Assessment Cites CrowdStrike Lessons Learned, Hybrid Warfare RisksThe British government's latest national security risk register sees a rising threat posed by cyberattacks disrupting operational technology in more critical national infrastructure sectors, and cites the CrowdStrike outage in "digital resilience failure" lessons to be learned.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced the results of a sweeping action undertaken by government authorities and private sector companies to combat cyber-enabled and cryptocurrency fraud targeting Americans
Cloud Giant Blames DNS MisconfigurationAmazon Web Services is recovering from a service outage that affected its own services and dozens of its clients on Monday including websites of the British government. The cloud computing giant - the world's largest - blamed a domain name system misconfiguration.
Cloud Giant Blames DNS MisconfigurationAmazon Web Services is recovering from a service outage that impacted its own services and dozens of its clients on Monday including websites of the British government. The cloud computing giant - the world's largest - blamed a domain name system misconfiguration.
PLUS: US court grounds China’s DJI; India requires 2FA for most payments; Great Firewall busters launch VPN; and more! Asia In Brief Over 600 e-government services operated by South Korea’s government are offline after a datacenter fire disrupted operations.…
Cybersecurity Programs, Workforce Face Disruption If Congress Fails to ActA potential government shutdown threatens to gut federal cybersecurity operations, with key programs set to expire, agency cyber staff facing layoffs and no public contingency plans in place - leaving core defenses, threat sharing and incident response at risk.
The Office of the Governor of Nevada revealed that the incident has shut down in-person State services, while government phone lines and websites are offline
Bank and crypto outfits hit after Israeli commander mentioned attacks expanding to ‘other areas’ The government of Iran appears to have shut down the internet within its borders, perhaps in response to Israel-linked cyberattacks.…
Labour Government Blames ToriesBritish law firms representing low-income criminal defendants and civil litigants are having to work for free for weeks or decline new cases as the fallout of a cyberattack against the U.K. Legal Aid Agency forced the agency to yank its online portal offline.
Despite Last-Minute Reprieve, Fresh Approach and Ownership Required, and SoonThis week's near-disruption in funding for the Mitre-administered Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures Program shows that the U.S. government no longer wants to be footing the tab. Many experts say this is an opportunity to redesign the CVE Program to be more neutral, sustainable and international.
MITRE Vice President Yosry Barsoum has warned that U.S. government funding for the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) and Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) programs expires today, which could lead to widespread disruption across the global cybersecurity industry. [...]
Risk of Espionage and Disruption Key Risks, Lawmakers WarnedThe British government is "extremely worried" about the Chinese and Russian cyber espionage and disruptive hacks, government officials told the U.K. Public Accounts Committee on Monday. The United Kingdom has faced a "substantial escalation in cyberthreats" in the last three years, lawmakers heard.
Risk of Espionage and Disruption Key Risks, Lawmakers WarnedThe British government is "extremely worried" about the Chinese and Russian cyber espionage and disruptive hacks, government officials told the UK Public Accounts Committee on Monday. The United Kingdom has faced a "substantial escalation in cyberthreats" in the last three years, lawmakers heard.
American business services giant and government contractor Conduent confirmed today that a recent outage resulted from what it described as a "cyber security incident." [...]
The US Government is offering a $5 million reward for information leading to the disruption of financial mechanisms supporting North Korea following a six-year conspiracy
Global Outage Triggers Calls for 'Less-Invasive Access' to Essential FunctionsThe global disruption caused by a faulty CrowdStrike software triggering a kernel panic and computer meltdowns has led government agencies, experts and vendors to call for rethinking Windows operating system resiliency, including the deep-level OS access security tools now require.
The US government UPGRADE program aims to automate vulnerability management in hospital environments, ensuring minimum disruption to services
The joint advisory sets out how to mitigate and respond to DDoS attacks, limiting disruption to critical services
The LockBit gang is relaunching its ransomware operation on a new infrastructure less than a week after law enforcement hacked their servers, and is threatening to focus more of their attacks on the government sector. [...]