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.
Newly Detected “StrifeWater” RAT Linked to Iranian APT
The Iranian threat group known as Moses Staff was first spotted in October 2021. It claims its purpose is to harm Israeli companies by leaking sensitive stolen data, but it has also been seen targeting a variety of industries in countries such as Italy, India, Germany, Chile, Turkey, UAE and the U.S.
Think Big, Start Small, Move Fast: Applying Lessons From The Mayo Clinic to Cybersecurity
I have previously written about how much the Mayo Clinic impacted my life through my experience and time there. In that article I discussed their approach to multi-disciplinary patient triaging and how looking at patients as a whole, rather than a system of discrete systems, helps them to make the right decisions.
Israeli Police: Possible Improper Surveillance by Our Own
Israel’s national police force on Tuesday said it had found evidence pointing to improper use of sophisticated spyware by its own investigators to snoop on Israeli citizens’ phones.
OpenSSF Alpha-Omega Project Tackles Supply Chain Security
Microsoft and Google are throwing their weight behind a new Linux Foundation OpenSSF initiative to address major security gaps in the open-source software ecosystem.












