A Tennessee community college suffered a data security attack that may have resulted in unauthorized access to personal information of former and current students, faculty and staff, officials said.
Walmart Dissects New ‘Sugar’ Ransomware
The cyber threat team at retail giant Walmart has dissected a new ransomware family dubbed Sugar, which is available to cybercriminals as a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS).
Passage Emerges From Stealth With Biometric User Authentication Platform
Austin, Texas-based Passage this week announced that it has emerged from stealth mode with $4 million in funding and a public beta version of its biometric user authentication platform for developers.
Cloudflare Launches Public Bug Bounty Program
Web performance and security services provider Cloudflare this week announced that its bug bounty program is now open to all vulnerability hunters on HackerOne.
FBI Warns of Potential Cyberattacks Targeting 2022 Winter Olympics
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Tuesday announced the release of a Private Industry Notification (PIN) to warn entities associated with the 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympic games of potential cyberattacks targeting them.
Samba Patches Critical Flaws That Earned Researchers Big Rewards
The latest updates for Samba, the widely used interoperability suite that provides file and print sharing capabilities between Windows and Unix computers, patch critical vulnerabilities that earned researchers tens of thousands of dollars at a recent hacking contest.
ESET Patches High-Severity Vulnerability in Windows Applications
Antivirus firm ESET on Monday announced patches for a local privilege escalation vulnerability impacting its Windows clients.
Tracked as CVE-2021-37852 and reported to ESET by the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), the vulnerability is considered “high severity,” as it could allow an attacker to misuse the AMSI scanning feature.
Google Patches 27 Vulnerabilities With Release of Chrome 98
Google on Tuesday announced the release of Chrome 98 in the stable channel with a total of 27 security fixes inside, including 19 for vulnerabilities reported by external researchers.
The most severe of these security defects could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the same privileges as the Chrome browser has on the target system.
Forescout Acquires Healthcare Cybersecurity Firm CyberMDX
RIPTA Data Breach Affected About 22,000 People
A data breach at the state agency that operates Rhode Island’s public bus service compromised the personal information of about 22,000 people, agency officials said at a legislative hearing.












