Leicester City Council’s IT systems and phone lines are expected to remain out of service until “at least midweek” following a cyber attack. Systems have been down since Thursday, March 7. The local authority said it was working with “cyber security and law enforcement partners” to try to get them up and running again. It […]
Schools across the U.S. remain fertile targets for hackers, with a slate of K-12 entities contending with cyberattacks and data thefts following the holiday season. Since the start of the year, a handful of schools have reported data breaches including Butte School District in Montana, Edmonds School District in Washington, Fullerton Joint Union High School […]
Dive Brief: Nearly 800 instances of Forta’s GoAnywhere MFT remain unpatched and potentially exposed to a critical vulnerability disclosed earlier this week, according to Shadowserver data published Friday. While many instances of the file-transfer service remain unpatched, less than 30 are vulnerable to exploits due to admin panel exposure on the public internet, Shadowserver said. […]
Email security risks remain high with 94% of organizations experiencing incidents in the past 12 months, according to Egress. Inbound email incidents primarily took the form of malicious URLs, attacks sent from a compromised account, and malware or ransomware attachments. Looking towards outbound email incidents, 91% of organizations experienced data loss and exfiltration due to […]
With increasing pressure on businesses to digitally transform and remain competitive, migration of data, applications and workloads to the cloud has intensified for reasons of scalability, storage capacity and initial cost savings. And, for companies making plans or in the process of vacating the premises and moving “up there,” the debate focuses on whether to […]
Despite patches being available, thousands of Cisco IOS XE devices remain compromised, with major telecommunications and internet providers being particularly affected by such attacks.
Dozens of vulnerabilities affecting the Squid caching and forwarding web proxy remain unpatched two years after a researcher responsibly disclosed them to developers. Squid is a widely used open source proxy. According to the official site, “Many of you are using Squid without even knowing it! Some companies have embedded Squid in their home or […]
Despite the breach, Volex’s operations remain largely unaffected, and the financial impact is expected to be minimal. The details of the breach, including the method of attack and any ransom demands, remain undisclosed.
Ransomware attackers remain a major threat to the United States and are on pace to have their second most profitable year ever, the Department of Homeland Security said in an annual report. The findings were part of the department’s 2024 Homeland Threat Assessment report released last week, which outlined a range of issues related to […]
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