The European Parliament agreed on Tuesday to strengthen protections for journalists from government surveillance as part of the proposed European Media Freedoms Act. As originally proposed last September, the law would have prohibited surveilling journalists and their families — and banned the use of spyware to target their devices — except in the cases of […]
Oct 04, 2023THNCloud Security / Cyber Threat Microsoft has detailed a new campaign in which attackers unsuccessfully attempted to move laterally to a cloud environment through a SQL Server instance. “The attackers initially exploited a SQL injection vulnerability in an application within the target’s environment,” security researchers Sunders Bruskin, Hagai Ran Kestenberg, and Fady Nasereldeen […]
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita is suing a northwest Indiana medical office over a ransomware event that put personal and protected health information at risk. The lawsuit alleges the provider was aware of security concerns before the data breach. The lawsuit filed last week against CarePointe — an ear, nose, throat, sinus and hearing provider […]
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Almost two-thirds of executives at publicly traded companies will strengthen their cybersecurity programs following the new Securities and Exchange Commission rule that requires companies to report material incidents within four business days, according to a […]
Attack. Remediate. Repeat? Speak to any organization infiltrated by ransomware—the most dangerous malware in the world—and they’ll be blunt: They’d do anything to avoid getting hit twice. But ransomware attacks have been ramping up in 2023 and reinfections are occurring all over the globe, forcing lean IT teams to prepare. Why are businesses getting hit […]
Many organizations — including quite a few Fortune 500 firms — have exposed web links that allow anyone to initiate a Zoom video conference meeting as a valid employee. These company-specific Zoom links, which include a permanent user ID number and an embedded passcode, can work indefinitely and expose an organization’s employees, customers or partners […]
The flaw, introduced in glibc 2.34, highlights the severity and widespread nature of the vulnerability, emphasizing the need for immediate patching by system administrators.
Low-budget hotel chain Motel One has been the victim of a ransomware attack that exposed customers’ payment card details. News of the ransomware attack and subsequent data breach was made public on September 30, after Motel One made a post regarding it on its X page, saying: “Motel One has become the target of a hacker […]
The vulnerabilities, collectively known as “ShellTorch,” have been patched in the latest version of TorchServe (0.8.2), hence, developers are encouraged to update to ensure their systems are secure.