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  • "Japan, US, EU Conduct Joint Cybersecurity Exercise"
    Intelligence authorities from Japan, the US, and the EU recently conducted a joint exercise to better prepare measures against cyberattacks.  The drill comes amid mounting tension in the Indo-Pacific region.  Issues related to Taiwan and North…
  • "Credit Card Numbers, Medical Records Leaked on Dark Web Amid Australian Clinical Labs Cyberattack"
    Leading pathology services provider Australian Clinical Labs (ACL) recently admitted that sensitive customer information, including medical records and credit card numbers, were stolen in a cyberattack and shared on the dark web.  The company stated…
  • "Google Trumpets US Federal Open Source Security Initiative"
    The Securing Open Source Software Act introduced in the Senate last month is a bipartisan bill that would create a security and risk-mitigation blueprint for the federal government's use of open source software.  Google is urging the private sector…
  • "Thomson Reuters Collected and Leaked at Least 3TB of Sensitive Data"
    The multinational media conglomerate, Thomson Reuters, left an open database containing sensitive customer and corporate data, including plaintext third-party server passwords. Attackers could use the information to launch a supply chain attack.…
  • "Attackers Are Sending Fake Scanner Notifications With Malicious Attachments"
    Attackers are now targeting scanner notifications. According to Jeremy Fuchs, a researcher at the cloud email and collaboration security firm Avanan, attackers are spoofing scanner notifications to send malicious files. They send spoof scanner…
  • "Phishing Volumes Increase Over 30 Percent With Well-Known Brands as Favorite Targets"
    According to the latest report from email security and threat detection company Vade, the volume of phishing emails increased by 31 percent in the last quarter compared to Q2. Volumes peaked in July (79.2 million), fell in August (57.5 million), and then…
  • "DHS Announces New Cybersecurity Performance Goals for Critical Infrastructure"
    The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has released the Cybersecurity Performance Goals (CPGs), which are voluntary practices outlining the highest-priority baseline measures that businesses and critical infrastructure owners of all sizes can take…
  • "LinkedIn Unveils New Security Features to Tackle Fraud"
    Social media company LinkedIn has recently introduced a series of new features aimed at fighting fake profiles and malicious use of the platform.  The company introduced three new security-focused capabilities.  The first one, called "About…
  • "Medibank Backtracks: All Customer Data Was Exposed to Hackers"
    Australian health insurance giant Medibank has announced that all of its customers’ personal information was accessed by ransomware actors a few days after playing down the impact of a recent breach.  The company admitted in a new statement that the…
  • "High-Severity Vulnerability in GitHub Was Susceptible to Repo Jacking"
    Researchers discovered a "high-severity" vulnerability in GitHub, which could have allowed an attacker to take control of a GitHub repository and potentially infect all applications and other code that relied on it with malicious code. According to…
  • "White House Launches Chemical Sector Security Sprint"
    The Biden–Harris administration has recently launched a new initiative designed to improve the security of industrial systems in the chemical sector over the next 100 days as part of ongoing efforts to reduce cyber-risk in critical infrastructure (CNI…
  • "Cybersecurity's Importance and Impact Reaches All Levels of the Tech Workforce"
    According to new CyberSeek data, employer demand for cybersecurity professionals continues to put a strain on talent availability. Employers listed 769,736 openings for cybersecurity positions or jobs requiring cybersecurity skills for the 12-month…