Month: September 2024
Planned Parenthood has confirmed it suffered a cyberattack affecting its IT systems, forcing it to take parts of its infrastructure offline to contain the damage. Planned Parenthood is a New York-based nonprofit organization that provides a range of reproductive health care services, education, and advocacy for birth control. It is one of the largest providers…
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Sep 05, 2024Ravie Lakshmanan Cisco has released security updates for two critical security flaws impacting its Smart Licensing Utility that could allow unauthenticated, remote attackers to elevate their privileges or access sensitive information. A brief description of the two vulnerabilities is below – CVE-2024-20439 (CVSS score: 9.8) – The presence of an undocumented static user…
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Business Security Would a more robust cybersecurity posture impact premium costs? Does the policy offer legal cover? These are some of the questions organizations should consider when reviewing their cyber insurance options 04 Sep 2024 • , 3 min. read There must be a consideration of the ethical question of contributing to the payment of…
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Frontier has a market capitalization of about $10 billion with its stock trading at about $39 a share after market hours Wednesday, up about 11 percent. Verizon is reportedly in talks to buy rival Frontier Communications to grow its fiber network and better compete with AT&T and other rivals. The Basking Ridge, N.J.-based telecommunications vendor…
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The MacroPack framework, initially designed for Red Team exercises, is being abused by threat actors to deploy malicious payloads, including Havoc, Brute Ratel, and PhatomCore. Security researchers at Cisco Talos have analyzed malicious document submissions on VirusTotal from various countries, including the United States, Russia, China, and Pakistan. These documents varied in their lures, sophistication, and infection…
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American semiconductor supplier Microchip Technology Incorporated has confirmed that employee information was stolen from systems compromised in an August cyberattack, which was later claimed by the Play ransomware gang. Headquartered in Chandler, Arizona, the chipmaker has around 123,000 customers from multiple industry sectors, including industrial, automotive, consumer, aerospace and defense, communications, and computing markets. On August…
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Welcome to this week’s edition of the “Bi-Weekly Cyber Roundup” by Canary Trap. At Canary Trap, it is our mission to keep you up-to-date with the most crucial news in the world of cybersecurity and this bi-weekly publication is your gateway to the latest news. In this week’s round-up, we will explore recent developments in…
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Image: MidjourneyToday, the U.S. Justice Department said the FBI seized 32 web domains used by the Doppelgänger Russian-linked influence operation network in a disinformation campaign targeting the American public ahead of this year’s presidential election. According to court documents, Doppelgänger is believed to be linked to Russian companies Social Design Agency (SDA), Structura National Technology…
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‘The company plans to shift the narrative from merely serving MSPs to empowering them to provide exceptional service to their customers,’ says new ScalePad CEO Chris Day. Chris Day, ScalePad’s founder and executive chairman, has taken over as CEO of the Vancouver, British Columbia-based vendor and has his sights on the future. With about 12,000…
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The new subpoenas are an escalation beyond the questionnaires the Justice Department previously sent to Nvidia, according to Bloomberg. Nvidia has reportedly received legally binding requests for information from the United States as part of the Department of Justice’s investigation into whether the semiconductor vendor broke antirust rules as part of its domination over the…
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