CyberSecurity Blog

ICYMI: Attack Removed MKS’ Ability to Process Orders, Ship Products or Provide Services MKS Instruments expects a $200 million revenue hit from February’s ransomware attack after the hack removed the company’s ability to process orders or ship products. The Feb. 3 ransomware attack required the company to temporarily suspend operations at some MKS Instruments facilities.http://dlvr.it/Sl157X

ICYMI: Biden Administration Officials Show Impatience With Hacking Risk The Securities and Exchange Commission proposed a slew of new cybersecurity rules for the companies underpinning the U.S. stock market, the latest sign of increasing unhappiness among Biden administration officials about the private sector’s management of digital risk.http://dlvr.it/Sl0yym

Microsoft Predicts Uptick in Ransomware, Initial Access Hacks, Influence Operations What happens next in Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine isn’t clear, but experts have been tracking signs that Moscow may be preparing for intensified cyber operations ahead of a spring offensive, developing new wiper malware and getting ready to interfere in European elections and foreign…
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More Than 300,000 Customers Affected by Breach at Latitude Financial Services Australian personal lending provider Latitude Financial Services disclosed to regulators on Thursday hacking incidents affecting more than 300,000 consumers. “Sophisticated” hackers made off with nearly 103,000 driver’s licenses and an additional 225,000 “customer records,” the company said.http://dlvr.it/Sl0m9k

CISOs have faced a broad and varied set of challenges in recent years. Remote environments, increasingly sophisticated threats and expanding supply chains are just some of the many concerns keeping them up at night.http://dlvr.it/Skyh1T

Attack Removed MKS’ Ability to Process Orders, Ship Products or Provide Services MKS Instruments expects a $200 million revenue hit from February’s ransomware attack after the hack removed the company’s ability to process orders or ship products. The Feb. 3 ransomware attack required the company to temporarily suspend operations at some MKS Instruments facilities.http://dlvr.it/Sky3cT

Biden Administration Officials Show Impatience With Hacking Risk The Securities and Exchange Commission proposed a slew of new cybersecurity rules for the companies underpinning the U.S. stock market, the latest sign of increasing unhappiness among Biden administration officials about the private sector’s management of digital risk.http://dlvr.it/SkxxXj

Microsoft Corp. announced via Twitter on March 1 that a worldwide outage affected Exchange Online – its cloud-based email service. According to the software giant in a series of tweets, Exchange Online …http://dlvr.it/Skxc8d

Microsoft on Tuesday released updates to quash at least 74 security bugs in its Windows operating systems and software. Two of those flaws are already being actively attacked, including an especially severe weakness in Microsoft Outlook that can be exploited without any user interaction. The Outlook vulnerability (CVE-2023-23397) affects all versions of Microsoft Outlook from…
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Two U.S. men have been charged with hacking into a U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) online portal that taps into 16 different federal law enforcement databases. Both are alleged to be part of a larger criminal organization that specializes in using fake emergency data requests from compromised police and government email accounts to publicly threaten…
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