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FBI Analyst Charged With Stealing Counterterrorism and Cyber Threat Info

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By: Ravie Lakshmanan The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) indicted an employee of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for illegally removing numerous national security documents and willfully retaining them...
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FBI Issues Conti Ransomware Alert as Attacks Target Healthcare

Officials have identified at least 16 Conti ransomware attacks targeting US healthcare and first responder networks.The FBI has issued an alert warning of Conti ransomware following its identification of...
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Data in Danger Amid New IT Challenges

Enterprise VulnerabilitiesFrom DHS/US-CERT's National Vulnerability Database CVE-2008-3280PUBLISHED: 2021-05-21 It was found that various OpenID Providers (OPs) had TLS Server Certificates that used weak keys, as a result of the Debian Predictable...

Ireland testing decryption key that could ease impact of health system cyberattack

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Ireland said on Thursday that experts were examining a decryption tool that had been posted online that might help unlock IT systems disabled by a massive ransomware attack on...

WP Statistics Bug Allows Attackers to Lift Data from WordPress Sites

The plugin, installed on hundreds of thousands of sites, allows anyone to filch database info without having to be logged in. WP Statistics, a plugin installed on more than 600,000...

Microsoft Warns of Data Stealing Malware That Pretends to Be Ransomware

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By: Ravie Lakshmanan Microsoft on Thursday warned of a "massive email campaign" that's pushing a Java-based STRRAT malware to steal confidential data from infected systems while disguising itself as a...