An Albany-area school district is investigating a malware attack that forced students in grades 7 through 12 into all-remote learning on Monday, district officials announced. Officials at the Guilderland Central School District said on the district’s website that specialists investigating “technical interruptions” that happened last Thursday “have determined that the district was the victim of ..
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Apple is following through on its pledge to crack down on Facebook and other snoopy apps that secretly shadow people on their iPhones in order to target more advertising at users. The new privacy feature, dubbed “App Tracking Transparency,” rolled out Monday as part of an update to the operating system powering the iPhone and ..
Civil liberties groups are asking the Supreme Court to give the public access to opinions of the secretive court that reviews bulk email collection, warrantless internet searches and other government surveillance programs. The groups say in an appeal filed with the high court Monday that the public has a constitutional right to see significant opinions ..
Japanese video game giant Capcom revealed on Tuesday that, as part of the November 2020 ransomware attack, adversaries targeted an older backup VPN device for initial access. Known for multi-million-selling game franchises, including Resident Evil, Street Fighter, Ace Attorney, and Devil May Cry, Capcom has offices across Asia, Europe, and North America. In November 2020, ..
Despite the coronavirus pandemic, 2020 was a record year in terms of venture capital funding for cybersecurity companies, with more than $7.8 billion invested, according to a new report from business information platform Crunchbase. Data from Crunchbase shows that cybersecurity venture funding has been on an upwards trend over the past decade, with roughly 1,500 ..
On Tuesday, as part of its April 2021 Security Patch Day, SAP announced the release of 14 new security notes and 5 updates to previously released notes. The only new Hot News note released with this round of patches addresses a critical vulnerability in SAP Commerce. Tracked as CVE-2021-27602 and featuring a CVSS score of ..
Siemens released a total of 14 new advisories on Tuesday, including five describing the impact and remediations for the NAME:WRECK vulnerabilities disclosed on the same day. IoT security company Forescout on Tuesday revealed that four popular TCP/IP stacks — specifically FreeBSD, Siemens’ Nucleus, IPnet and NetX — are affected by a total of nine DNS-related ..
FBI agents executed a court-authorized cyber operation to delete malicious web shells from hundreds of previously hacked Microsoft Exchange servers in the United States, unbeknownst to their owners, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) said Tuesday. After a wave of major in-the-wild zero-day attacks against Exchange Server installations that occurred globally in January, savvy organizations ..
Iran on Sunday described a blackout at its underground Natanz atomic facility an act of “nuclear terrorism,” raising regional tensions as world powers and Tehran continue to negotiate over its tattered nuclear deal. While there was no immediate claim of responsibility, suspicion fell immediately on Israel, where its media nearly uniformly reported a devastating cyberattack ..
Microsoft this week announced the open source availability of Python code for “CyberBattleSim,” a research toolkit that supports simulating complex computer systems. Designed to help advance artificial intelligence and machine learning, the experimental research project was designed to aid in the analysis of how “autonomous agents operate in a simulated enterprise environment using high-level abstraction ..
