When Colonial Pipeline suffered an outage in May 2021 as a result of an attack by the DarkSide crime syndicate, numerous governments changed their approach to ransomware and began treating it as a national security threat, says Rapid7's Jen Ellis. She details what needs to happen next.
Canada says it will no longer allow the use of products and services from China's Huawei Technologies and ZTE Corp. in its telecommunications systems. The government says its decision is based on reviews by independent security agencies and was made in consultation with its "closest allies."
An emergency directive from the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency advises all federal agencies in the country to immediately patch and address two vulnerabilities - one with a critical CVSS score and the other with a high score - that affect at least five VMware products.
The list of ophthalmology practices and the number of individuals affected by a December hacking incident at a cloud-based electronic health records vendor, which resulted in deleted databases, are growing as more details about the attack slowly emerge.
Google will offer customers access to the same technology it uses to lock down developer workflows to ensure open-source dependencies are addressed. Assured Open Source Software will allow clients to ensure third-party software they're using is scanned, analyzed and fuzz-tested for vulnerabilities.
In this episode of "Cybersecurity Unplugged," Tim Danks of Global Risk Perspectives discusses issues around trusting our global supply chain, including the role of Huawei, the steps needed to secure critical infrastructure, and the process for determining a comfortable level of risk management.
The Linux Foundation and the Open Source Security Foundation have put forth a nearly $150 million investment plan, spread across two years, to strengthen open-source security in the U.S. The plan was announced at the Open Source Software Security Summit II in Washington, D.C., on Thursday.
Hundreds of thousands of Konica Minolta printers used in businesses have reportedly been vulnerable to three critical flaws since 2019. Although a patch was available, deployment was delayed as the firmware update required physical access to the printers and COVID-19 made that difficult.
Several eye care practices have reported health data breaches involving vendor Eye Care Leaders and its cloud-based myCare Integrity electronic medical records offering. The incident, involving the deletion of databases and systems configuration data, has affected about 100,000 or more patients.
Three of 74 vulnerabilities identified by Microsoft are "critical" as they exploit remote code execution with escalation of privileges. There are also updates for a new NTLM relay attack using an LSARPC flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-26925, which is a Windows LSA spoofing vulnerability.
The Five Eyes alliance of cybersecurity authorities from the U.S., U.K., Australia, New Zealand and Canada issued a warning to managed service providers about targeted attacks, advising MSP customers on how to protect sensitive data and reassess their security posture and contractual agreements.
In the latest "Troublemaker CISO" post, security director Ian Keller discusses the issue of supply chain security and whether you should disclose information about your supply chain to companies as part of the effort to secure it. His conclusion: Build your defenses and trust no one.
A recent ransomware attack disclosed by a medication management systems provider is the latest reminder of persistent cybersecurity threats and risks facing healthcare supply chain and related vendors, as well as their customers. What's at stake?
A hacking group called Lapsus$ caused major headaches for identity vendor Okta in March when it dropped incriminating but misleading screenshots of a security breach. Brett Winterford of Okta breaks down what happened and discusses why visibility into third-party support operations is important.
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