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The agency said it had linked the attack to "One of the hacker spy groups from the Russian Federation." The incident was described as a supply chain attack and compared to the NotPetya attack of 2017 and the recently disclosed SolarWinds incident. Another press release, issued on Monday, said the NCCC had been seeing "Massive DDoS attacks" since February 18.
American VC firm Sequoia Capital has disclosed a data breach following what looks like a failed business email compromise attack from January. Since its founding in 1972, the venture capital firm Sequoia has invested in a long list of high-profile companies.
American VC firm Sequoia Capital has disclosed a data breach following what looks like a failed business email compromise attack from January. Since its founding in 1972, the venture capital firm Sequoia has invested in a long list of high-profile companies.
Many of these are point solutions operating in isolation and do not share or correlate threat intelligence or participate in coordinated threat responses with other solutions in the same segment of the network, let alone across disparate environments. Networks stuffed with isolated security devices that struggle to just keep up with application performance requirements and dynamic networks will absolutely freeze when faced with things like distributed clouds, extreme edge computing, and smart environments.
The UK's National Cyber Security Centre is now helping IoT gadget firm FootfallCam Ltd secure product lines following the recent digital burglary of its nursery webcam operation. Company director Melissa Kao confirmed to The Register that the NCSC, a sibling of UK spy agency GCHQ, was helping the company shore up security after its NurseryCam product was hacked last week.
After security researchers have developed and published proof-of-concept exploit code targeting a critical vCenter remote code execution vulnerability, attackers are now actively scanning for vulnerable Internet-exposed VMware servers. We've detected mass scanning activity targeting vulnerable VMware vCenter servers.
Silicon Valley-based venture capital giant Sequoia Capital said the recently disclosed data breach was apparently the result of a business email compromise attack attempt. In a data breach notice sent to impacted individuals, a copy of which has been submitted to attorney general's offices, Sequoia revealed that it learned of unauthorized access to an employee's business email inbox on January 20, 2021.
If you understand economic churn and the ten to one model, every direct dollar you take out of the US economy removes ten times the economic activity, but it creates ten dollars of economic activity in the foreign country. You can argue if it's ten to one less or more but the result is still the same.4, It creates job losses and long term unemployment in the home economy and does the opposit in the foreign economy.
Two developers, sponsored by Google, will dedicate their time to addressing vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel as part of a wider effort to improve the security of open-source software. Google will sponsor a pair of developers to work full-time on bolstering the security of Linux.
Google and the Linux Foundation this week announced the prioritizing of funds to allow long-time Linux kernel maintainers Gustavo Silva and Nathan Chancellor to focus on improving the security of the platform. The pervasive Linux operating system, according to a recent report from the Linux Foundation's Open Source Security Foundation and the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard, needs additional work on security.