Cybersecurity

Cyberattack causes St. Louis County to shut down some public safety computer servers

CLAYTON — A cyberattack caused St. Louis County to shut down some computer systems used to look up court cases, issue charges and process people in custody at the jail, County Executive Sam Page said Tuesday. Police officers, jail officials, the county counselor, municipal court officials and the prosecuting attorney’s office all use the Regional Justice […]

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A full timeline of the MGM Resorts cyber attack

Hospitality and entertainment company, MGM Resorts, recently suffered a cyber attack that severly impacted its business operations. The cyber attack was discovered on September 11, when MGM Resorts put out a statement via X (formerly Twitter) that a “cyber security incident” was impacting come of its systems. MGM Resorts reassured customers that it had contacted […]

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N-Able’s Take Control Agent Vulnerability Exposes Windows Systems to Privilege Escalation

î ‚Sep 14, 2023î „THNVulnerability / Hacking A high-severity security flaw has been disclosed in N-Able’s Take Control Agent that could be exploited by a local unprivileged attacker to gain SYSTEM privileges. Tracked as CVE-2023-27470 (CVSS score: 8.8), the issue relates to a Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) race condition vulnerability, which, when successfully exploited, could be leveraged […]

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Russian Journalist’s iPhone Compromised by NSO Group’s Zero-Click Spyware

î ‚Sep 14, 2023î „THNSpyware / Malware The iPhone belonging to Galina Timchenko, a prominent Russian journalist and critic of the government, was compromised with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware, a new collaborative investigation from Access Now and the Citizen Lab has revealed. The infiltration is said to have happened on or around February 10, 2023. Timchenko is […]