CISA released its customized Log4Shell scanning solution and a list of other third-party scanners. However, all the Log4j scanners tested by Rezilion failed to detect all file formats.
China has announced new requirements for companies that might pose a "national security" threat, chiefly those that have large stockpiles of personal data that might wind up being transferred overseas.
A new and quickly growing segment of fraud scams, so-called "targeted links," blend in elements of digital marketing such as targeted advertising and participation in legitimate ad networks.
US and UK have dispatched cyber warfare advisors to Ukraine to prepare for potential cyber attacks. The prospect is not unprecedented, as Russia has disabled Ukrainian power stations before.
Alibaba's security team was the first to discover the Log4j vulnerability. Though Alibaba Cloud was not compromised, the company is nevertheless facing consequences for failing to notify Chinese regulators within two days as required by new laws passed in September 2021.
UK law enforcement has shared over half a million compromised passwords found in cloud storage with Have I Been Pwned. The headline item is that over one-third of these passwords (about 225 million) have not been logged before.
After an apparent refusal to pay a ransom demand, Russian hackers have leaked a sampling of 13 million records of UK police data to the dark web in retaliation. The records were stolen from a police contractor.
Natural gas supplier Superior Plus suffered a ransomware attack that knocked its systems offline although customer safety and security and personal data were not affected.
Privacy rules do for enterprise what enterprise won’t do for itself. Asking Big Tech to take the high road even when it hurts their profits is like asking dental patients to pull their own teeth. As long as policymakers delay robust data regulations, there aren’t any rules for Big Tech to break.
Volvo disclosed a security breach that resulted in a R&D data theft by Snatch cyber threat actors. The company added that customers’ car safety and private information were not affected.
