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Russian Ransomware Gang Attack Destabilizes UK Royal Mail
Plus: Joe Biden’s classified-documents scandal, the end of security support for Windows 7, and more...
FedRAMP just got better – and is here to stay
Today, President Biden signed the National Defense Authorization Act NDAA, taking a giant step forward in securing the federal governments cloud-first mission. The FedRAMP® Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program Authorization Act, outlined in section 5921 of the NDAA, formalizes the...
Looking for student debt relief? Watch out for scammers says the FBI
The FBI believes that scammers may be after people applying for the One-Time Federal Student Loan Debt Relief, a program announced by the Biden-Harris Administration in August 2022 that provides up to $20,000 in student loan debt relief. In a recent public service announcement, the agency warned ...
Biden Cybersecurity Executive Order: Ex-USSS Reflects
Ed Cabrera, former CISO of the US Secret Service and current Chief Cybersecurity Officer for Trend Micro, reflects on the effectiveness of Biden’s executive order and what organizations of all sizes can learn from it...
NSO Group’s Pegasus Spyware Used against Thailand Pro-Democracy Activists and Leaders
Yet another basic human rights violation, courtesy of NSO Group: Citizen Lab has the details: Key Findings We discovered an extensive espionage campaign targeting Thai pro-democracy protesters, and activists calling for reforms to the monarchy. We forensically confirmed that at least 30 individua...
Rethinking Vulnerability Management in a Heightened Threat Landscape
Mariano Nunez, CEO, Onapsis Repeated warnings from CISA and the Biden Administration on the Russian cyber threat over the last several months have heightened the state of alertness for U.S. agencies and businesses across industries, which are expecting ‘tit-for-tat’ cyberattacks from Russia in...
Threat Source newsletter (April 7, 2022) — More money for cybersecurity still doesn't solve the skills gap problem
By Jon Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter. U.S. President Joe Biden’s proposed budget would include an 11 percent increase in the federal government’s IT budget, including a total of $10.9 billion for cybersecurity. On the surface — this is all... This is only...
How Russia's Invasion Triggered a US Crackdown on Its Hackers
The Biden White House is using “all of the levers of national power” to counter—or preempt—cyberattacks by Russia’s most dangerous hacker groups...
Putin and Biden Must Choose: How Does Russia Want to Lose?
As Russia's failures mount in its war against Ukraine, can Biden prevent an isolated Putin from doing the unthinkable?...
Friday Squid Blog: 328-million-year-old Vampire Squid Ancestor Discovered
A fossilized ancestor of the vampire squid -- with ten arms -- was discovered and named Syllipsimopodi bideni after President Biden. Heres the research paper. Note: Vampire squids are not squids. Yes, its weird. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the...
Will Russian Oil Ban Spur Increased Cyber-Attacks
President Biden banned the sale of Russian oil to the United States to deprive the Putin regime of the economic resources needed to wage war. But this may put US companies in the firing line of cyber-attacks from the east...
White House Executive Order – Navigating EDR Implementation
White House Executive Order – Navigating Endpoint Detection and Response EDR Implementation Tom Gann · March 08, 2022 This is the fourth in a series of blogs on the Biden Administration’s Executive Order EO on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity. I encourage you to read those you may have missed...
Biden wants stronger privacy protections, no targeted ads for children
On March 1, US President Joe Biden gave his first State of the Union Address SOTU speech to Congress. In it, Biden highlighted the dire need to get help for teens with mental health issues. He demanded tech companies implement more robust privacy protections for kids and teens using their online...
White House Denies Mulling Massive Cyberattacks Against Russia
The White House has denied reports that President Biden has been presented with an arsenal of ways to launch massive cyberattacks against Russia – attacks designed to disrupt the country’s ability to sustain its military operations in Ukraine. NBC News on Thursday reported that the options includ...
The 2021 Naughty and Nice Lists: Cybersecurity Edition
Editor’s note: We had planned to publish our Hacky Holidays blog series throughout December 2021 – but then Log4Shell happened, and we dropped everything to focus on this major vulnerability that impacted the entire cybersecurity community worldwide. Now that it’s 2022, we’re feeling in need of...
This Week in Security News - December 10, 2021
This week, read about Trend Micro’s predictions for security in the coming year. Also, learn about the Biden administration’s latest initiatives for curtailing attacks on the transport infrastructure...
Keeping Up with Biden Administration Cybersecurity Mandates
With Wednesday’s sweeping cybersecurity mandates issued by the Biden administration, patching Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVEs are top of mind — for both federal and private-sector companies alike — to help prevent damaging intrusions. Intensifying the pressure surrounding the latest rou...
Groove Calls for Cyberattacks on US as REvil Payback
UPDATE: Subsequent reporting and disclosures show “Groove” was a hoax intended to lure media outlets into reporting on fake potential threats against U.S. government interests. Threatpost regrets falling for a troll. Lesson learned and apologies to our readers. Following the recent international...
Time to Build Accountability Back into Cybersecurity
In the age of remote work — where hybrid teams work out of offices, houses and coffee shops using a multitude of devices — presents challenges in terms of understanding who’s responsible for ensuring proper cyber-hygiene across the perimeter-less footprint. Suffice it to say that cybersecurity ha...