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FBI: Olympic Athletes Should Leave Devices at Home
PRIVACY PRIVACY FBI: Olympic Athletes Should Leave Devices at Home US law enforcers are urging participants at the Beijing Winter Olympics to leave their devices at home after warning of potential state-backed and cybercrime activity at the event. An FBI alert issued yesterday claimed it was aware of no specific threat to the games but…
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CISA Tells Organizations to Patch CVEs Dating Back to 2014
PRIVACY PRIVACY CISA Tells Organizations to Patch CVEs Dating Back to 2014 The US government has added eight more vulnerabilities to its growing list of CVEs that must be patched by federal agencies, including some that first appeared eight years ago. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) first launched its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog in November…
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Cengage to Buy Cybersecurity Training platform, Infosec
PRIVACY PRIVACY Cengage to Buy Cybersecurity Training platform, Infosec A global education technology company based in Boston has signed a $191M deal to buy the cybersecurity training platform, Infosec. Cengage Group announced the planned addition to its ed2Go business on Monday. The deal is expected to close in the first quarter of 2022. “The online, employer-paid cybersecurity training…
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Aussie Tech Entrepreneur Extradited Over SMS Fraud
PRIVACY PRIVACY Aussie Tech Entrepreneur Extradited Over SMS Fraud A Russian-born tech entrepreneur has been extradited to the United States from Australia to face charges relating to a multi-million-dollar text messaging consumer fraud scheme. The arrival in America of 41-year-old dual Russian and Australian citizen Eugeni Tsvetnenko was announced by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Friday.…
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Prison for Dark Overlord Collaborator
PRIVACY PRIVACY Prison for Dark Overlord Collaborator A Canadian man has been sentenced to prison in the United States for trading in stolen identities and collaborating with the Dark Overlord cyber extortionist group. Using the screen name GoldenAce, Slava Dmitriev bought and sold hundreds of illegally obtained IDs on the dark web. The 29-year-old resident of Vaughn,…
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Outdated IoT healthcare devices pose major security threats
PRIVACY PRIVACY More than half (53%) of the IoT (internet of things) and internet of medical things (IoMT) devices used in healthcare contain critical cybersecurity risks, according to The State of IoMT Device Security report by Cynerio, which analyzed devices from more than 300 hospitals in the US. Cynerio makes IoT and security systems for…
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Beware! Facebook accounts being hijacked via Messenger prize phishing chats
PRIVACY PRIVACY Facebook users are being warned of a phishing campaign that tries to break into accounts, disguised as a Facebook Messenger chat from a friend. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Read More
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Securing Critical Infrastructure: The Essential Role of Public-Private Partnerships
PRIVACY PRIVACY Government collaboration with industry can help drive strategic planning and tactical operations to address cyberthreats. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) states, “Public-private partnerships are the foundation for effective critical infrastructure security and resilience strategies, and timely, trusted information sharing among stakeholders is essential to the security of the nation’s critical…
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Qubit pleads with hacker to return $80 million of stolen funds
PRIVACY PRIVACY Qubit, a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform, has publicly offered $2,000,000 to a hacker who stole $80 million worth of cryptocurrency from it last week. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Read More
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Twelve-Year-Old Linux Vulnerability Discovered and Patched
PRIVACY PRIVACY It’s a privilege escalation vulnerability: Linux users on Tuesday got a major dose of bad news — a 12-year-old vulnerability in a system tool called Polkit gives attackers unfettered root privileges on machines running most major distributions of the open source operating system. Previously called PolicyKit, Polkit manages system-wide privileges in Unix-like OSes.…