Category: AI in news
Fostering a domestic crane industry Given China’s dominance in the global supply of port cranes, the Biden administration seeks to revive a US-based crane industry. “The Administration continues to deliver for the American people by rebuilding the US’s industrial capacity to produce port cranes with trusted partners,” the White House said in its fact sheet.…
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Threat actors, frequently frustrated by improved enterprise security systems, increased their efforts to compromise credentials in 2023, according to CloudStrike’s 10th annual global threat report released Wednesday. “Threat actors are running into EDR products out there that are making it difficult for them. It’s difficult for them to bring their tools in and use them…
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In the past 2 years, we have observed a significant surge in hacktivism activity due to ongoing wars and geopolitical conflicts in various regions. Since the war against Ukraine began, we have witnessed a notable mobilization of non-state and state-backed actors alike, forming new groups or joining existing hacker collectives. We understand hacktivism as a…
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The willingness of competitors to use cyber operations to generate strategic effects is dictated by four institutional factors: Connectivity: Competitors are motivated by the degree of connectivity that exists to link them to adversaries. Given the ubiquity of cyber and cyber-physical systems today, this factor is consistently high. Vulnerability: Competitors are motivated by perceived…
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Heaven’s above! Scammers are exploiting online funerals, and Lockbit – the “Walmart of Ransomware” – is dismantled in style by cyber cops. All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault. Warning: This podcast may contain nuts, adult themes, and rude…
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A critical vulnerability patched this week in the ConnectWise ScreenConnect remote desktop software is already being exploited in the wild. Researchers warn that it’s trivial to exploit the flaw, which allows attackers to bypass authentication and gain remote code execution on systems, and proof-of-concept exploits already exist. ScreenConnect is a popular remote support tool with…
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Feb 21, 2024Newsroom Cybersecurity researchers have identified two authentication bypass flaws in open-source Wi-Fi software found in Android, Linux, and ChromeOS devices that could trick users into joining a malicious clone of a legitimate network or allow an attacker to join a trusted network without a password. The vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2023-52160 and CVE-2023-52161, have…
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“In terms of phishing, while I believe that the threat remains in the critical category for organizations, because many phishing campaigns seek account credentials as the primary outcome, if cybercriminals have access to valid account credentials via other means (as noted in the report), the need to run a phishing campaign will decline,” said Michael Sampson,…
Read MoreDetails of a Phone Scam First-person account of someone who fell for a scam, that started as a fake Amazon service rep and ended with a fake CIA agent, and lost $50,000 cash. And this is not a naive or stupid person. The details are fascinating. And if you think it couldn’t happen to you,…
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On Thanksgiving Day 2023, while many Americans were celebrating, hospitals across the U.S. were doing quite the opposite. Systems were failing. Ambulances were diverted. Care was impaired. Hospitals in three states were hit by a ransomware attack, and in that moment, the real-world repercussions came to light—it wasn’t just computer networks that were brought to…
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