SAIC Appoints Kevin Brown as Chief Information Security Officer
RESTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) today announced that Kevin Brown has joined the company as chief information security officer (CISO). In this role, Brown leads the...
FamousSparrow APT Group Flocks to Hotels, Governments, Businesses
A cyberespionage group dubbed FamousSparrow is targeting hotels, governments, and private businesses around the world, leveraging the ProxyLogon Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerability along with its own custom backdoor, SparrowDoor.
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NIST Brings Threat Modeling into the Spotlight
One noteworthy element of the National Institute of Standards and Technology's recent Recommended Minimum Standard for Vendor or Developer Verification of Code is the prominence given to threat modeling, which is...
Apple Patches Zero-Days in iOS, Known Vuln in macOS
Apple today released security updates for three vulnerabilities in iOS and one flaw in macOS Catalina. Two of the iOS flaws may have been actively exploited, while exploits for...
Who Is BlackMatter?
If you hadn't heard of BlackMatter before this week, you now likely know it as the group linked to a recent ransomware attack against Iowa-based farm services provider New...
Password Reuse Problems Persist Despite Known Risks
While people have become aware of the pitfalls of password security, about two-thirds continue to use the same password, or a variation of that password, for their accounts. That's a...
CISA, FBI, NSA Warn of Increase in Conti Ransomware Attacks
The FBI, National Security Agency, and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency today issued a joint alert warning of increased use of Conti ransomware, which has been seen in more than...
New Cooperative’s Ransomware Attack Underscores Threat to Food & Agriculture
Farm services provider New Cooperative recently suffered a ransomware attack that forced it to take systems offline. The attack follows months of high-level US government debate about how to address...
US Treasury Dept. Sanctions Suex Cryptocurrency Exchange
The US Treasury Department will sanction a cryptocurrency exchange for its alleged role in facilitating ransomware payments, marking the first time a digital currency platform has been sanctioned.
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