> TODAY'S SUMMARY (14 articles)
Today's cybersecurity news highlights several significant threats and trends. A major cyberattack on French bank Crédit Mutuel Arkéa resulted in fraudulent transactions totaling $133 million, emphasizing the risks associated with third-party service providers. Scammers are increasingly impersonating trusted brands in fake gift card schemes, collecting personal information from unsuspecting consumers. The rise of IoT vulnerabilities is underscored by recent hacks affecting critical infrastructure, such as blood labs and grocery stores. Additionally, vulnerabilities in SonicWall's SonicOS have been exploited, prompting CISA to add these to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Developers are also reminded of security best practices, as sensitive credentials were found exposed in public GitHub repositories.
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Excellus Health Plan agrees to pay $5.1m to settle HIPAA violation case
Americaâs National Security Agency confirms Rob Joyce as Cybersecurity Directorate leader
Security metrics are an interesting topic.
Over the years I used âscoresâ as a tool to identify and shine light on problematic areas or highlight lack of engineering and security quality of certain teams.
A security score should not seen as an objective or absoulte measure, but it allows to compare...
MoD saw incidents rise by 18% year-on-year
Collaboration seeks to accelerate digital risk management innovation
United Nations Environment Programme Breached, 100K+ Employee Records Accessed Executive Summary We noticed that The United Nations had a Vulnerability Disclosure Program and a Hall of Fame, therefore Sakura Samurai æĄăźäŸ our security research group, set out to look for vulnerabilities to report to...
Site admin announces retirement after alleged bout of COVID-19
SEPA warns it will take some time to restore all services
Each month we publish numerous new articles and known issues to the WatchGuard Knowledge Base. Here is the new content published in December:
Articles
Reserved Firebox-DB authentication server user names
macOS Big Sur 11.x software compatibility
Fireware v12.5.7 and v12.6.4 beta releases in Wa...
Disinformation effort could undermine trust in vaccines, warns EMA
Cross City man pleads guilty to cyberstalking woman who survived violent encounter in childhood
Memorandum of Understanding reached between WiCyS Mid-Atlantic and CMMC COE
Technical blunder erases 150k arrest records from UK-wide police database
Solution enables existing PDNS solution to extend beyond the enterprise network
Orgs must prepare cyber-defenses for surge in AI and quantum tech
Agency urges most enterprises to avoid DoH
Portuguese duo said to have designed code to covertly harvest user info
E-commerce scam-as-a-service comes to Europe from Russia
Individuals and businesses should prepare for a wave of vaccine disinformation campaigns
ISIS cyber-operative granted compassionate release charged with committing crimes while in federal prison