The 15 biggest data breaches of the 21st century
Not long ago, a breach that compromised the data of a few million people would have been big news. Now, breaches that affect hundreds of millions or even billions...
FireEye’s Mandia: ‘Severity-Zero Alert’ Led to Discovery of SolarWinds Attack
CEO Kevin Mandia shared some details on how his company rooted out the major cyberattack campaign affecting US government and corporate networks.FireEye CEO Kevin Mandia today shared some insight...
Cobalt Strike & Metasploit Tools Were Attacker Favorites in 2020
Research reveals APT groups and cybercriminals employ these offensive security tools as often as red teams.Cobalt Strike and Metasploit were the offensive security tools most commonly used to host...
The US Capitol was breached by rioters. What has to happen next?
When drawing up plans for IT security in the US Congress, Congressional tech employees most likely didn’t have an attack by hundreds, if not several thousand, irate supporters of...
United States suspends French tariffs over digital services tax
The United States has indefinitely suspended 25% tariffs on French cosmetics, handbags and other imports it had planned in retaliation for a digital services tax Washington says will harm...
New Year, New Ransomware: Babuk Locker Targets Large Corporations
Despite being a mostly run-of-the-mill ransomware strain, Babuk Locker’s encryption mechanisms and abuse of Windows Restart Manager sets it apart.
Only a few days into the new year, one of...
Nvidia Warns Windows Gamers of High-Severity Graphics Driver Flaws
In all, Nvidia patched flaws tied to 16 CVEs across its graphics drivers and vGPU software, in its first security update of 2021.
Nvidia, which makes gaming-friendly graphics processing units...
Threatpost Poll: Weigh in on Ransomware Security
Provide your views on ransomware and how to deal with it in our anonymous Threatpost poll.
It’s no secret that ransomware attacks continue to rise – with the number of attacks ...
SolarWinds Hackers Also Accessed U.S. Justice Department’s Email Server
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
The U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday became the latest government agency in the country to admit its internal network was compromised as part of the SolarWinds...
