The Bioeconomy Information Sharing and Analysis Center (BIO-ISAC) and New York Metro InfraGard Members Alliance (NYM-IMA) are coming together to tackle cyber threats facing the bioeconomy. The partnership, which aims to protect economic activity in the United States involving the use of biotechnology and biomass in the production of goods, services or energy, was announced on Thursday.
Month: April 2022
Here’s what you should know about FlowingFrog, LookingFrog and JollyFrog – the three teams making up the TA410 espionage umbrella group In this edition of Week in security, Tony looks at the latest ESET research that: provided a detailed overview of TA410, a cyberespionage umbrella group that targets entities in the government and education sectors
Microsoft on Thursday disclosed that it addressed a pair of issues with the Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server that could result in unauthorized cross-account database access in a region. “By exploiting an elevated permissions bug in the Flexible Server authentication process for a replication user, a malicious user could leverage an improperly anchored regular
So is your smart speaker really listening in on your conversations? That’s the crux of a popular privacy topic. Namely, are we giving up some of our privacy in exchange for the convenience of a smart speaker that does our bidding with the sound of our voice? After all, you’re using it to do everything
A cyber-attack on a hotel reservation system has exposed the personal data of thousands of guests who stayed at upscale Finnish hotels. News of the security incident, which has impacted at least five hotels, was first reported by Finnish news agency MTV on Tuesday. Between February 10 and 14, cyber-attackers exploited a vulnerability to hack
by Paul Ducklin Early in April 2022, news broke that various users of Microsoft’s GitHub platform had suffered unauthorised access to their private source code. GitHib has now updated its incident report to say that it is “in the process of sending the final expected notifications to GitHub.com customers who had either the Heroku or
At least six different Russia-aligned actors launched no less than 237 cyberattacks against Ukraine from February 23 to April 8, including 38 discrete destructive attacks that irrevocably destroyed files in hundreds of systems across dozens of organizations in the country. “Collectively, the cyber and kinetic actions work to disrupt or degrade Ukrainian government and military
A woman from Los Angeles, who coughed on an Uber driver in a video that went viral last spring, has been accused of stealing the identity of her former neighbor. Arna Kimiai, known on social media as ‘Cough Girl,’ was charged over the March 7 2021 incident involving San Francisco Uber driver, Subhakar Khadka. A video shared
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