CYBERSECURITY FBI, CISA + MS-ISAC Warn of LockBit 3.0 Ransomware The FBI, CISA and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MSISAC) recently released a joint cybersecurity advisory, warning organizations about...more
3/24/2023
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Hackers are always looking for the next opportunity to launch attacks against unsuspecting victims. According to Cybersecurity Dive, researchers at Proofpoint recently observed “a phishing campaign designed to exploit the...more
3/24/2023
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ChatGPT is amazing! It is all the rave. Its capabilities are awe-inspiring (except to educators who are concerned their students will never write a term paper again). It has reportedly passed a bar exam and a physician board...more
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World Economic Forum’s Global Cybersecurity Outlook for 2023 Is Bleak -
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but remember that I am only the messenger. According to the World Economic Forum’s Global...more
2/9/2023
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Israeli cybersecurity firm Hudson Rock has reported that the email addresses of more than 235 million Twitter users have been stolen and posted by more than one hacker on an online hacking forum. According to the security...more
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235 Million Twitter User Email Addresses Posted on Hacking Forum -
Israeli cybersecurity firm Hudson Rock has reported that the email addresses of more than 235 million Twitter users have been stolen and...more
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Nineteen States Have Banned TikTok on Government-Issued Devices -
Governors of numerous states have issued Executive Orders in the past several weeks banning TikTok from government-issued devices and...more
12/23/2022
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According to the National Security Agency, actors backed by the Chinese government are actively targeting a zero-day vulnerability in two commonly-used Citrix networking devices. The exploit (CVE-2022-27518) affects Citrix...more
According to NBC News and Reuters, the United States Secret Service confirmed that hackers from APT41, a criminal cyber-hacking group linked to the Chinese Communist Party, stole “at least $20 million in U.S. Covid Relief...more
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CISA Lists Top CVEs Exploited by Chinese State-Sponsored Cyber Actors -
The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) recently issued an Alert outlining the top Common Vulnerabilities and...more
10/21/2022
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The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) recently issued an Alert outlining the top Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) that have been used by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) state-sponsored...more
10/20/2022
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Killnet, a Russian-speaking hacking group that emerged shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine, took responsibility last week for deploying a denial-of-service attack that temporarily took several U.S. states’ websites offline....more
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Hackers Experimenting with Deploying Destructive Malware -
It’s a cold, hard fact that hackers don’t really care about their victims or their victims’ data or business. They are greedy, evil human...more
9/30/2022
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Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ,
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Patient Access ,
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It’s a cold, hard fact that hackers don’t really care about their victims or their victims’ data or business. They are greedy, evil human beings that just want the money....more
9/29/2022
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FBI Issues Notice to Health Industry Highlighting Risks of Unpatched Medical Devices -
The FBI issued a Private Industry Notification targeted to the health care sector on September 12, 2022, warning...more
9/19/2022
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Password Manager LastPass Admits to Hack -
Password manager LastPass, reportedly used by more than 33 million users, recently announced that it was hacked, and although it reports that no passwords of...more
In its Mid-Year Cyberthreat Report published on August 24, 2022, cybersecurity firm Acronis reports that ransomware continues to plague businesses and governmental agencies, primarily through phishing campaigns.
According...more
With the recent announcement by LastPass that it was hacked, and source code was compromised (LastPass is reporting that no passwords were compromised), I thought it timely to remind readers about the pros and cons of using a...more
Password manager LastPass, reportedly used by more than 33 million users, recently announced that it was hacked, and although it reports that no passwords of users were compromised in the incident, unfortunately, its source...more
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Cyber-Attack Disrupts Public Services in Fremont County, Colorado -
Government offices and public services in Fremont County, Colorado, have been disrupted since August 17, 2022, due to a “cybersecurity...more
8/26/2022
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Government offices and public services in Freemont County, Colorado, have been disrupted since August 17, 2022, due to a “cybersecurity event affecting our county computer systems.”
As of the official update issued...more
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CISA + MS-ISAC Alert: Threat Actors Exploiting Zimbra Collaboration Suite -
On August 16, 2022, CISA (the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) and the Multi-State Information Sharing & Analysis...more
8/24/2022
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The FBI and CISA recently issued a Cybersecurity Alert entitled “#StopRansomware: Zeppelin Ransomware” providing an alert to organizations about the proliferation of Zeppelin ransomware attacks and information on the...more
8/22/2022
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Twilio Hit with Social Engineering Smishing Scheme -
We’ve explained smishing schemes before. Smishing is like phishing, but uses SMS texting to deliver malicious code to users’ phones, or tricks the user...more
8/12/2022
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The Twilio and Cloudfare smishing attacks [view related post] provide a timely reminder of how sophisticated smishing attacks are and how they can affect businesses and their customers. But threat actors don’t just attack...more