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  • "Microsoft Says It Mitigated Largest-Ever DDoS Attack"
    Technology giant Microsoft has disclosed that it mitigated a DDoS attack of 2.4 terabytes per second, which targeted an undisclosed European customer using its cloud computing service Microsoft Azure.  According to Microsoft, the attack, observed in…
  • "Brewer's Token Gaffe Causes Massive PII Breach"
    An authentication error left the personal data of hundreds of thousands of BrewDog customers and Equity for Punks shareholders exposed for a year and a half.   Researchers at security consulting and testing company Pen Test Partners discovered the…
  • "Mobile Malware Campaign Uses Lures Tied to COVID-19, HHS Warns"
    A recent alert from the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) brings attention to Medusa, also known as TangleBot, which is a malware variant spreading via SMS and targeting Android…
  • "Over 90% of Firms Suffered Supply Chain Breaches Last Year"
    Researchers at BlueVoyant discovered that 93% of global organizations have suffered a direct breach due to weaknesses in their supply chains over the past year. The cybersecurity services company polled 1200 IT and procurement leaders responsible for…
  • "FDA Recalls Medtronic Insulin Pump Controller, Cites Cybersecurity Risks"
    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a notice regarding the recall of all Medtronic MiniMed remote controllers used with the Medtronic MiniMed 508 insulin pump or the MiniMed Paradigm family of insulin pumps because of potential…
  • "NSA Warns of Risks Posed by Wildcard Certificates, ALPACA Attacks"
    The National Security Agency (NSA) recently issued guidance regarding risks associated with wildcard TLS certificates and Application Layer Protocols Allowing Cross-Protocol Attack (ALPACA) techniques. The new guidance calls on network administrators to…
  • "AWS Ransomware Attacks: Not A Question Of If, But When"
    Researchers at Ermetic announced the results of a study about the security posture of AWS environments and their vulnerability to ransomware attacks. For the study, researchers mapped out scenarios in which the right combination of permissions would…
  • "Study Reveals Scale of Data-Sharing from Android Mobile Phones"
    Researchers from Trinity College Dublin and the University of Edinburgh analyzed six variants of the Android OS developed by Samsung, Xiaomi, Huawei, /e/OS, Realme, and LineageOS to gain further insight into data collection and sharing by Android mobile…
  • "A Cryptography Game-Changer for Biomedical Research at Scale"
    The P4 approach, which encompasses predictive, personalized, participatory, precision, and preventive medicine, is the future of healthcare. In order to increase its adoption and effectiveness, it is essential for clinical data on large numbers of…
  • "BlackTech Espionage Gang Adds to Malware Toolset"
    BlackTech is an espionage group linked to China, which is said to be more than a decade old. The group has updated its malware arsenal with new tools. According to researchers with PwC's threat intelligence team, BlackTech has been using a downloader…
  • "Why Facebook and Instagram Went Down for Hours"
    This week’s massive Facebook outage that was felt across all it’s platforms including Instagram and WhatsApp and lasted over six hours was likely caused by a faulty configuration change on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between data…
  • "REvil/Sodinokibi Accounting For 73% of Ransomware Detections in Q2 2021"
    Researchers at McAfee released a report which examines cybercriminal activity related to ransomware and cloud threats in the second quarter of 2021.   According to the researchers, in Q2 2021, Financial Services were targeted the most among reported…