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  • "Bill Would Create Cyber Workforce Training Programs at CISA and VA"
    The recently introduced bipartisan Federal Cybersecurity Workforce Expansion Act aims to strengthen government cybersecurity by improving the cyber workforce through the creation of two new cybersecurity training programs. These programs include an…
  • "USB Threats Could Critically Impact Business Operations"
    According to a report released by Honeywell, USB threats that can severely impact business operations increased significantly during a disruptive year when the usage of removable media and network connectivity also grew. Researchers found that 37% of…
  • "Four States Propose Laws to Ban Ransomware Payments"
    Following the ransomware attacks on Colonial Pipeline and top meat producer JBS, some government officials have called on Congress and the administration to ban organizations from making ransom payments to threat actors. The goal of such a ban would be…
  • "Data of 500K Patients Accessed, Stolen After Eye Clinic Ransomware Attack"
    The Iowa-based Wolfe Eye Clinic was hit with a ransomware attack earlier this year in February, resulting in the access and possible theft of data belonging to 500,000 patients. An unauthorized individual was observed attempting to access the…
  • "74% of Q1 Malware Was Undetectable Via Signature-Based Tools"
    WatchGuard Technologies analyzed threat data collected from customer networks during the first quarter of 2021. The analysis revealed that 74 percent of threats detected were zero-day malware, which were able to evade signature-based threat detection…
  • "Data Breach at WorkForce West Virginia"
    Personal information belonging to job seekers residing in West Virginia may have been exposed during a security incident at WorkForce West Virginia. The breach was confirmed yesterday by West Virginia governor Jim Justice. In a breach notification that…
  • "Tulsa: Ransomware Attackers Leaked 18,000 Files"
    The City of Tulsa has learned that the persons responsible for the ransomware attack that it faced in May 2021 leaked more than 18,000 city files on the dark web. According to a statement from the city officials, most of the files are police citations…
  • "NSA Funds Development, Release of D3FEND"
    The federal research and development organization MITRE has released D3FEND, a framework for cybersecurity professionals to tailor defenses against specific cyber threats. The framework was funded by the National Security Agency (NSA) to strengthen the…
  • "Cloud Database Exposes 800M+ WordPress Users' Records"
    According to Website Planet, a misconfigured cloud database exposed over 800 million records linked to WordPress users before its owner was notified. The trove was left online with no password protection by US hosting provider DreamHost. The data in the…
  • "Ransomware Attacks Decline as Gangs Focus on Lucrative Targets"
    Ransomware attacks fell by 50% in Q1 2021 as threat actors shifted from using mass spread campaigns to focusing on fewer, larger targets with unique samples, according to the McAfee Threats Report. The researchers stated that the traditional approach of…
  • "Columbia Engineering Researchers Design New Techniques to Bolster Memory Safety"
    Columbia Engineering researchers recently presented two major papers at the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) that improve the security of computer systems. These new studies have zero to little effect on system performance and are…
  • "Google Announces Unified Schema to Make Sharing Vulnerabilities Easier"
    Google has announced a unified schema for describing vulnerabilities. The goal of the unified schema is to make it easier to share data on vulnerabilities between databases. An issue with existing vulnerability databases is that each ecosystem or…