Although US federal agencies have made progress in preparing for and responding to cyber threats, too many have failed to meet the deadline to implement incident response capabilities required by law, according to the US Government Accountability Office (GAO). In a new report, published on December 4, 2023, the GAO found that 20 US federal […]
On November 22, 2023, East River Medical Imaging filed a notice of data breach with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights after determining that suspicious activity on its IT network was related to a cyberattack. In this notice, ERMI explains that the incident resulted in an unauthorized party being […]
Dec 07, 2023The Hacker NewsEncryption / Data Privacy Meta has officially begun to roll out support for end-to-end encryption (E2EE) in Messenger for personal calls and one-to-one personal messages by default in what it called the “most significant milestone yet.” “This isn’t a routine security update: we rebuilt the app from the ground up, in […]
Google said it patched three vulnerabilities in a version of its Chromecast media-streaming hardware discovered by security researchers earlier this year. When chained together, the bugs could allow someone to maliciously install a custom operating system and unsigned code on the Chromecast with Google TV. Patches for the bugs — tagged as CVE-2023-48424, CVE-2023-48425 and […]