Homeland Security Releases New Cybersecurity Rules

DHS's second issue requires pipeline operators to implement various cybersecurity measures to protect their operations from cyber attacks. This directive also builds upon the department's May directive following the Colonial Pipeline attack...

2021 CWE Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses

The Homeland Security Systems Engineering and Development Institute, sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security and operated by MITRE, has released the 2021 Common Weakness Enumeration CWE Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses list. The Top 25 uses data from the National Vulnerability...

StopRansomware.gov brings together information on stopping and surviving ransomware attacks

The US Department of Homeland Security DHS and the US Department of Justice DOJ—along with other federal partners—have launched a new website as part of the US governments fight against ransomware: StopRansomware.gov. StopRansomware.gov is said to be a one-stop hub for ransomware resources for...

New CISA Director Confirmed, W.H. Gains Cyber-Director

The U.S. has made a key move to shore up its cybersecurity strategy, with the confirmation of Jen Easterly as the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Monday. Easterly, a former official at the National Security Agency from 2011 to 2013 and two-time Bronze Star...

Atlassian Bugs Could Have Led to 1-Click Takeover

Atlassian, a platform used by 180,000 customers to engineer software and manage projects, could have been hijacked with a single click due to security flaws, researchers have disclosed. On Thursday, Check Point Research CPR published a report PDF outlining how an attacker could have exploited the...

Colonial Pipeline attack spurs new rules for critical infrastructure

Following a devastating cyberattack on the Colonial Pipeline, the Transportation Security Administration—which sits within the government’s Department of Homeland Security—will issue its first-ever cybersecurity directive for pipeline companies in the United States, according to exclusive reporti...

Feds Shut Down Fake COVID-19 Vaccine Phishing Website

Federal law enforcement in Maryland has shut down a fraudulent website targeting immigrant communities that claimed to be for a company developing a COVID-19 vaccine. Instead, the site was stealing information from people with the purpose of using it for future cybercriminal activity. The U.S...

Microsoft Warns of 25 Critical Vulnerabilities in IoT, Industrial Devices

Security researchers at Microsoft are warning the industry about 25 as-yet undocumented critical memory-allocation vulnerabilities across a number of vendors’ IoT and industrial devices that threat actors could exploit to execute malicious code across a network or cause an entire system to crash...

The FBI Is Now Securing Networks Without Their Owners’ Permission

In January, we learned about a Chinese espionage campaign that exploited four zero-days in Microsoft Exchange. One of the characteristics of the campaign, in the later days when the Chinese probably realized that the vulnerabilities would soon be fixed, was to install a web shell in compromised...

SolarWinds Attackers Accessed DHS Emails, Report

The SolarWinds cyberattackers compromised the head of the Department of Homeland Security DHS under former president Trump and other top-ranking members of the department’s cybersecurity staff, according to a report. In the campaign, adversaries were able to use SolarWinds’ Orion network manageme...

U.S. Indicts North Korean Hackers in Theft of $200 Million

The U.S. Justice Department today unsealed indictments against three men accused of working with the North Korean regime to carry out some of the most damaging cybercrime attacks over the past decade, including the 2014 hack of Sony Pictures, the global WannaCry ransomware contagion of 2017, and...

Qualys Security Advisory: SolarWinds / FireEye

Qualys Researchers found Millions of devices exposed to vulnerabilities used in the stolen FireEye Red Team tools and SolarWinds Orion by analyzing the anonymized set of vulnerabilities across Qualys’ worldwide customer base Qualys to offer a free 60-day integrated Vulnerability Management,...

SolarWinds Hack Could Affect 18K Customers

The still-unfolding breach at network management software firm SolarWinds may have resulted in malicious code being pushed to nearly 18,000 customers, the company said in a legal filing on Monday. Meanwhile, Microsoft should soon have some idea which and how many SolarWinds customers were affecte...

Russian hackers also hacked Department of Homeland Security – Report

By Deeba Ahmed The known list of targets hit by hackers is now five. Here is which department was hacked and what you should about the attack. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Russian hackers also hacked Department of Homeland Security - Report...

SolarWinds advanced cyberattack: What happened and what to do now

We learned more about the sophisticated attack first disclosed on December 8 when security firm FireEye reported it had been the victim of a state-sponsored adversary that stole Red Team assessment tools. On December 13 there was a new development when IT company SolarWinds announced it had been...

Unauthorized Access of FireEye Red Team Tools

Overview A highly sophisticated state-sponsored adversary stole FireEye Red Team tools. Because we believe that an adversary possesses these tools, and we do not know whether the attacker intends to use the stolen tools themselves or publicly disclose them, FireEye is releasing hundreds of...

Trump Fires Security Chief Christopher Krebs

President Trump on Tuesday fired his top election security official Christopher Krebs no relation. The dismissal came via Twitter two weeks to the day after Trump lost an election he baselessly claims was stolen by widespread voting fraud. Chris Krebs. Image: CISA. Krebs, 43, is a former Microsof...

Firing of CISA Chief Christopher Krebs Widely Condemned

Government officials and cybersecurity experts alike condemned President Trump’s firing of Christopher Krebs by tweet Tuesday, as the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA became the latest victim of the president’s housecleaning efforts after his failed bid at a...

Microsoft’s SMBGhost Flaw Still Haunts 108K Windows Systems

More than 100,000 Windows systems have not yet been updated to protect against a previously-patched, critical and wormable flaw in Windows called SMBGhost. Microsoft patched the remote code-execution RCE flaw bug tracked as CVE-2020-0796 back in March; it affects Windows 10 and Windows Server 201...

Microsoft: Attackers Exploiting ‘ZeroLogon’ Windows Flaw

Microsoft warned on Wednesday that malicious hackers are exploiting a particularly dangerous flaw in Windows Server systems that could be used to give attackers the keys to the kingdom inside a vulnerable corporate network. Microsofts warning comes just days after the U.S. Department of Homeland...