Monthly Archives: September 2024
FCC fines AT&T $13m over 2023 data breach
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The regulator said the operator had not done enough to protect consumer data
This week, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC...
Significant PKfail vulnerability continues to be prevalent
Almost 800 of more than 10,000 firmware images continue to leverage cryptographic keys exposed by the PKfail vulnerability, tracked as ...
Critical SolarWinds ARM flaw fixed
Inadequate validation of user-supplied data has caused the vulnerability, which was discovered by Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative resea...
Harris-Walz campaign targeted by Russian influence operations
CyberScoop reports that Russia has already begun refocusing its election interference efforts on the campaign of Vice President Kamala ...
Report: US spied on by China via backdoored port cranes
U.S. ports have been placed with ship-to-shore cranes by Chinese manufacturer ZPMC that had backdoored modems unspecified in contracts ...
Four ways to stay ahead of the ransomware threat
COMMENTARY: Five ransomware groups: LockBit, Play, BlackBasta, Akira, and 8Base, have been responsible for 40.54% of ransomware attacks...
Russian digital signature certification agency claimed to be compromised by Ukraine
Such an intrusion, which has been conducted alongside Ukrainian hacking group BO Team, resulted not only in the defacement of Osnovanie...
Email attacks prevalent in critical infrastructure firms
Email security breaches have impacted 80% of critical infrastructure organizations around the world during the past 12 months, TechRepu...
US charges Chinese national over spear-phishing attacks against agencies
The U.S. Department of Justice announced that former Aviation Industry Corporation of China employee Song Wu has been indicted with wir...
AT&T to pay $13M over widespread third-party breach
Investigation by the FCC revealed that AT&T had failed to dispose of customer data shared with the unnamed firm it enlisted for bil...