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The European Union has adopted new legislation to establish a cybersecurity shield and ensure adequate security standards for managed security services.

AWS and other vendors have announced new cloud security products and features at the cloud giant’s re:Invent 2024 conference.

Commerce Department expanded the list of Chinese technology companies subject to export controls to include many that make equipment used to make computer chips, chipmaking tools and software.

McInerney’s path to becoming a hacker is subtly different to many other hackers. He started as a 22-year old psychology graduate rather than a computer-obsessed 9-year old kid.

A hacker has posted online over 760,000 records belonging to employees of Bank of America, Koch, Nokia, JLL, Xerox, Morgan Stanley, and Bridgewater.

Hackers have caused close to $1.49 billion in cryptocurrency losses this year, with $71 million worth of assets stolen in November.

Energy sector contractor ENGlobal Corporation has restricted access to some of its systems in response to a ransomware attack.

Cisco has updated an advisory for CVE-2014-2120 to warn customers that the vulnerability has been exploited in the wild. 

AWS has launched Security Incident Response, a new service for quick and efficient security event management.

The ‘Bootkitty’ prototype UEFI bootkit contains an exploit for LogoFAIL and was created in a South Korea university program.

Roundup of the forty-nine cybersecurity-related merger and acquisition (M&A) deals announced in November 2024.

People on the Move

SSH Communications Security has appointed Pauli Haikonen as the company’s Chief Information Security Officer (CISO).

Cloud and container security firm Sysdig has tapped William Welch as CEO on its path to an IPO.

Dave Scher has been promoted to Deputy Chief Information Officer at MITRE.

Anti-ransomware platform Arms Cyber has named Bob Kruse as its CEO.

Darren Sankbeil has been named Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) at Dragos.

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McInerney’s path to becoming a hacker is subtly different to many other hackers. He started as a 22-year old psychology graduate rather than a computer-obsessed 9-year old kid.

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The ‘Bootkitty’ prototype UEFI bootkit contains an exploit for LogoFAIL and was created in a South Korea university program.

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Russian authorities have reportedly arrested Mikhail Matveev, who is wanted by the US for ransomware attacks against critical infrastructure.

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Microsoft informed customers that vulnerabilities affecting cloud, AI and other services have been patched, including an exploited flaw.

The Russia-linked RomCom APT has been observed chaining two zero-days in Firefox and Windows for backdoor delivery.

Supply chain management software provider Blue Yonder has been targeted in a ransomware attack that caused significant disruptions for some customers.

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