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  • "George Mason University Hackathon Winners Unveil Solutions to Fight Global Counterfeiting"
    The winners of the 2022 Bring Down Counterfeiting Public Policy Hackathon, held November 5 at the Homeland Security Investigations Innovation Lab in Arlington, were announced by George Mason University's Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption…
  • "Insider Risk on the Rise: 12% of Employees Take IP When Leaving Jobs"
    Security researchers Dtex conducted a study on the top insider risk trends for 2022 and discovered that twelve percent of all employees take sensitive intellectual property (IP) with them when they leave an organization. Some of the IP taken from…
  • "'Justice Blade' Hackers Are Targeting Saudi Arabia"
    The 'Justice Blade' threat actor group published leaked data from Smart Link BPO Solutions, an outsourcing Information Technology (IT) vendor that works with major enterprises and government agencies in Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Cooperation Council (…
  • "CISA, NSA and Industry Outline Security Responsibilities of Software Suppliers"
    According to guidance recently released by the National Security Agency (NSA) and the US Homeland Security Department's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), software suppliers have unique responsibilities to maintain the efficient…
  • "Over Thirty Arkansas Counties Impacted by Cyberattack"
    A cyberattack over the weekend is causing county offices across the state of Arkansas to go offline or temporarily close.  Each affected county is using the company Apprentice Information Systems (AIS) for its online servers.  The Rodgers based…
  • "Iranian Actors Targeting Healthcare via Spear-Phishing, Vulnerability Exploit"
    The US Department of Health and Human Services' Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) issued a warning about the threat posed by Iranian nation-state actors to the healthcare sector. In June 2021, the FBI foiled an Iranian-backed cyberattack on Boston…
  • "Conti Affiliates Black Basta, BlackByte Continue to Attack Critical Infrastructure"
    Security researchers at the threat response unit (TRU) at eSentire have found that between the end of February and mid-July 2022, 81 victim organizations were listed on the BlackByte and Black Basta data leak sites.  Of those, 41% were based in…
  • "Raspberry Worm Exposes Larger, More Complex Malware Ecosystem"
    Raspberry Robin has quickly evolved from a worm that, while widely distributed, did not show any post-infection actions to an active malware distribution platform, just a few months after its discovery by Red Canary researchers in May 2022. Microsoft has…
  • "Censinet, AHA, KLAS Partner On Healthcare Cybersecurity Benchmarking Study"
    Censinet, a healthcare risk management solutions provider, has announced plans to conduct "The Healthcare Cybersecurity Benchmarking Study" with the American Hospital Association (AHA) and KLAS Research. The study is enrolling hospital and health system…
  • "ICS Patch Tuesday: Siemens Addresses Critical Vulnerabilities"
    Siemens and Schneider Electric have recently released their Patch Tuesday advisories for November 2022.  Siemens has released nine new security advisories covering a total of 30 vulnerabilities, but Schneider has only published one new advisory.…
  • "APIs Are Everywhere, but API Security Is Lacking"
    As the number of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) spreads across corporate infrastructure, they are quickly becoming the largest attack surface in applications and a major target for attackers. According to industry experts, the rise of…
  • "Google Patches High-Severity Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities in Android"
    Android’s November 2022 security updates patch over 40 vulnerabilities, including multiple high-severity escalation of privilege bugs.  The first part of the update includes fixes for 17 security defects, 12 of which could lead to escalation of…