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Unspecified Vulnerability in IBM QRadar SIEM (CNVD-2021-43492)
IBM QRadar SIEM is an IBM USA solution that utilizes security intelligence to protect assets and information from advanced threats. The solution provides oversight of the entire scope of the IT architecture, generates detailed reports on data access and user activity, and more. A security...
Smart lighting security
Smart lighting systems create great opportunity for improved efficiency, cost savings and easy management. The long lifespan and low power requirement of LED luminaires and lamps means that it’s worth investing in replacing older fluorescent and incandescent lighting. RJ45 connections delivering...
Avoid oversights in HIPAA risk management
Since HIPAA regulations first came about in 1996, organizations have looked for ways to analyze and manage risk within this complex framework. Although guided by the HIPAA Security Rule as well as additional guidance from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services HHS and Office for Civil...
Biden Races to Shore Up Power Grid Against Hacks
President Biden is putting the final details on a plan to encourage American electric utilities to strengthen their cybersecurity protections against hackers in the next 100 days, amid increasing cyberattacks. The White House push to boost electrical grid security comes in the wake of a report th...
CVE-2021-27379
A flaw was found in xen. An oversight was made when backporting XSA-320, leading to entries in the IOMMU not being properly updated under certain circumstances...
SolarWinds Hack Prompts Congress to Put NSA in Encryption Hot Seat
Members of Congress are demanding the U.S. National Security Agency NSA reveal what it knows about the 2015 Juniper Networks supply-chain delivery breach. In a letter sent by U.S. Senator Ron Wyden and nine additional members of Congress, the lawmakers demand a full account of the NSA-designed...
2020 Shows the Danger of a Decapitated Cyber Regime
Trump's White House has long been AWOL on cybersecurity. That lack of oversight almost seemed to be working—until the SolarWinds hack...
Newly Declassified Study Demonstrates Uselessness of NSA's Phone Metadata Program
The New York Times is reporting on the NSA's phone metadata program, which the NSA shut down last year: A National Security Agency system that analyzed logs of Americans' domestic phone calls and text messages cost $100 million from 2015 to 2019, but yielded only a single significant investigatio...
Space Force's Rough Launch, Oversight for Facebook, and More News
Catch up on the most important news from today in two minutes or less...
Federal Data Privacy Bill Takes Aim at Tech Giants
A new digital privacy bill has been introduced to the the Senate, which would give the Federal Trade Commission FTC more teeth when it comes to providing oversight on tech companies’ use of consumer data. Sen. Maria Cantwell D-Wash., ranking member on the Senate Commerce Committee, led the...
Technology and Policymakers
Technologists and policymakers largely inhabit two separate worlds. It's an old problem, one that the British scientist CP Snow identified in a 1959 essay entitled The Two Cultures. He called them sciences and humanities, and pointed to the split as a major hindrance to solving the world's...
NTSB Investigation of Fatal Driverless Car Accident
Autonomous systems are going to have to do much better than this. The Uber car that hit and killed Elaine Herzberg in Tempe, Ariz., in March 2018 could not recognize all pedestrians, and was being driven by an operator likely distracted by streaming video, according to documents released by the...
Retailer Orvis.com Leaked Hundreds of Internal Passwords on Pastebin
Orvis, a Vermont-based retailer that specializes in high-end fly fishing equipment and other sporting goods, leaked hundreds of internal passwords on Pastebin.com for several weeks last month, exposing credentials the company used to manage everything from firewalls and routers to administrator...
Twitter temporarily disables 'Tweeting via SMS' after CEO gets hacked
Twitter today finally decided to temporarily disable a feature, called 'Tweeting via SMS,' after it was abused by a hacking group to compromise Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey last week and sent a series of racist and offensive tweets to Dorsey's followers. Dorsey's Twitter account was compromised last...
Corporate IoT – a path to intrusion
Several sources estimate that by the year 2020 some 50 billion IoT devices will be deployed worldwide. IoT devices are purposefully designed to connect to a network and many are simply connected to the internet with little management or oversight. Such devices still must be identifiable,...
Corporate IoT - a path to intrusion
Several sources estimate that by the year 2020 some 50 billion IoT devices will be deployed worldwide. IoT devices are purposefully designed to connect to a network and many are simply connected to the internet with little management or oversight. Such devices still must be identifiable,...
Corporate IoT - a path to intrusion
Several sources estimate that by the year 2020 some 50 billion IoT devices will be deployed worldwide. IoT devices are purposefully designed to connect to a network and many are simply connected to the internet with little management or oversight. Such devices still must be identifiable,...
Facebook Agrees to Pay $5 Billion Fine and Setup New Privacy Program for 20 Years
The Federal Trade Commission FTC today officially confirmed that Facebook has agreed to pay a record-breaking $5 billion fine over privacy violations surrounding the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Besides the multibillion-dollar penalty, the company has also accepted a 20-year-long agreement that...
Protecting Yourself from Identity Theft
I don't have a lot of good news for you. The truth is there's nothing we can do to protect our data from being stolen by cybercriminals and others. Ten years ago, I could have given you all sorts of advice about using encryption, not sending information over email, securing your web connections,...