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Casio says a recent cyberattack has caused some system disruptions and it’s investigating whether a data breach has occurred. 

Online summit is laser focused on helping organizations to level up their Identity and Zero Trust security strategies.

CreditRiskMonitor says hackers may have accessed personal information of employees and independent contractors. 

The EU has set up a system for imposing sanctions against people accused of cyberattacks, information manipulation or acts of sabotage on behalf of Russia.

The iPhone Mirroring feature in macOS Sequoia and iOS 18 may expose employees’ private applications to corporate IT environments.

Cyberespionage APT GoldenJackal has been targeting air-gapped systems at government organizations and embassies.

Ivanti says a few more CSA zero-day vulnerabilities have been found to be exploited in attacks where they are chained with CVE-2024-8963.

ICS security advisories were published on Tuesday by Siemens, Schneider Electric, Phoenix Contact and CERT@VDE.

Patch Tuesday: Redmond warns that attackers are rigging Microsoft Saved Console (MSC) files to execute remote code on targeted Windows systems. 

Adobe documents 25 vulnerabilities in Adobe Commerce and warns of code execution and privilege escalation exposure.

SAP has released 12 new and updated security notes on October 2024 patch day, including one that fixes a critical flaw in BusinessObjects.

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Threat intelligence firm Intel 471 has appointed Mark Huebeler as its COO and CFO.

Omkhar Arasaratnam, former GM at OpenSSF, is LinkedIn’s first Distinguised Security Engineer

Defense contractor Nightwing has appointed Tricia Fitzmaurice as Chief Growth Officer.

Xage Security has appointed Russell McGuire as CRO and Ashraf Daqqa as VP of the META region.

Solana co-founder Stephen Akridge has been appointed the CEO of data protection firm Cyber Grant.

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Patch Tuesday: Redmond warns that attackers are rigging Microsoft Saved Console (MSC) files to execute remote code on targeted Windows systems. 

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Google and Amnesty have seen evidence that a Qualcomm chipset vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-43047 may be exploited in the wild.

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The largest U.S. water utility disconnects customer portal and suspends billing services following a cyberattack.

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The perfctl malware has been targeting vulnerabilities and misconfigurations in millions of Linux systems, likely infecting thousands.

The China-linked group Salt Typhoon hacked AT&T and Verizon, possibly compromising wiretap systems, according to WSJ.

Inside the collapse of IronNet: Some say the firm collapsed, in part, because it engaged in questionable business practices, produced subpar offerings, and could have been vulnerable to meddling by the Kremlin.

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Vulnerability Could Allow Attacker to Execute Arbitrary Code or Cause a denial-of-service ConditionRIM has released a security advisory to address a security issue in the BlackBerry Attachment Service component of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server. According to RIM, the vulnerability could allow a malicious individual to cause buffer overflow errors, leading to a Denial of Service (DoS) condition or execution of arbitrary code on the computer that the BlackBerry Attachment Service runs on.

GE today announced the acquisition of Australia-based data migration and SCADA simulation specialists, Opal Software. Opal Software supplies professional engineering services and SCADA and DMS software products to electricity, water and gas utilities. The company’s data migration capabilities help clients to switch quickly between multiple platforms.

Organized crime enterprise known as the Mirzoyan-Terdjanian, fleeced the health care system through a wide-range of money making criminal fraud schemesThe FBI reported this week that seventy-three people, including a number of alleged members and associates of an Armenian-American organized crime enterprise, were charged in indictments with various health care fraud-related crimes involving more than $163 million in fraudulent billing.

As part of National Cyber Security Awareness Month, students from the Polytechnic Institute of New York University’s (NYU-Poly) Information Systems and Internet Security (ISIS) Lab are offering tips on how to keep information safe on you mobile device.

Afilias, a provider of Internet infrastructure services, today announced that it has enabled Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) for five country code Top-Level-Domains (ccTLDs) in Latin America and the Caribbean region.The latest top level domains that have been enabled with DNSSEC support include: .AG (Antigua and Barbuda), .BZ (Belize), .HN (Honduras) .LC (St. Lucia), and .VC (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines). 

McAfee today announced the availability of its Enterprise Mobility Management platform, an enterprise mobility solution that helps enterprises support devices such as iPhone and other iOS devices as well as Android devices, offering data protection, security provisioning, compliance enforcement and monitoring, and enter

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LogLogic, a provider of SIEM and IT data management solutions, today announced the official release of its virtual SIEM solution. The product was released in a preview version back in June, but is now generally available.

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