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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's CISA is directing federal agencies to scan their Microsoft Exchange environments for four weeks and report if they find any compromised servers. [Read More]
The U.S. Department of Justice this week announced official charges against Wyatt A. Travnichek, a Kansas man accused of accessing and tampering with a public water system. [Read More]
Citrix warns that the bugs could result in privileged code in a guest virtual machine to crash the host or render it unresponsive. [Read More]
North Korean government-backed APT group caught using a fake pen-testing company sock puppet Twitter and LinkedIn accounts in an escalation of a hacking campaign targeting security research professionals. [Read More]
A serious security bug in the 'netmask' npm package leads to misinterpretation of IP addresses. [Read More]
CompuCom shares information on the cost of recovering from a cybersecurity incident, including loss of revenue and major service disruptions. [Read More]
Hades ransomware operators adopt a double-extortion tactic, but they are often slow to respond to requests for payment instructions. [Read More]
Apple ships an urgent security update to fix a major security flaw affecting iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch devices and warned that the vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild. [Read More]
Reuters is reporting that a draft executive order would set new rules on data breach disclosure and use of multi-factor authentication and encryption in federal agencies. [Read More]
Kaspersky says ransomware attacks on ICS devices decreased globally in the second half of 2020, but increased in developed countries. [Read More]
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David Harley chimes in with some thoughts on the latest developments from the AMTSO and the Anti-Malware Industry.
The vulnerability in Windows Shell’s parsing of .LNK (shortcut) files presents some interesting and novel features in terms of its media lifecycle as well as its evolution from zero-day to patched vulnerability. For most of us, the vulnerability first came to light in the context of Win32/Stuxnet, malware that in itself presents some notable quirks.
The anti-malware industry sometimes sees more complicated problems than you might imagine, and they can’t all be fixed by tweaking detection algorithms or giving the marketing team a productivity bonus.
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