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US Cyber Safety Review Board on the 2023 Microsoft Exchange Hack
2024-04-09 13:56

US Cyber Safety Review Board released a report on the summer 2023 hack of Microsoft Exchange by China. The Board finds that this intrusion was preventable and should never have occurred.

Microsoft still unsure how hackers stole MSA key in 2023 Exchange attack
2024-04-04 00:21

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Cyber Safety Review Board has released a scathing report on how Microsoft handled its 2023 Exchange Online attack, warning that the company needs to do better at securing data and be more truthful about how threat actors stole an Azure signing key. Almost 10 months after Microsoft started the investigation, the CSRB states there isn't any definitive evidence on how the threat actor obtained the signing key, regardless of what Microsoft previously claimed.

Microsoft slammed for lax security that led to China's cyber-raid on Exchange Online
2024-04-03 02:15

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Microsoft slammed for lax security that led to China's cyber-raid on Exchange Online
2024-04-03 02:15

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Week in review: Backdoor found in XZ utilities, weaponized iMessages, Exchange servers at risk
2024-03-31 08:00

Beware! Backdoor found in XZ utilities used by many Linux distrosA vulnerability in XZ Utils, the XZ format compression utilities included in most Linux distributions, may "Enable a malicious actor to break sshd authentication and gain unauthorized access to the entire system remotely," Red Hat warns. Drozer: Open-source Android security assessment frameworkDrozer is an open-source security testing framework for Android, whose primary purpose is to make the life of mobile application security testers easier.

Telegram Offers Premium Subscription in Exchange for Using Your Number to Send OTPs
2024-03-28 08:07

In June 2017, a study of more than 3,000 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) students published by the National Bureau for Economic Research (NBER) found that 98% of them were willing to...

These 17,000 unpatched Microsoft Exchange servers are a ticking time bomb
2024-03-28 07:45

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Germany warns of 17K vulnerable Microsoft Exchange servers exposed online
2024-03-26 19:21

The German national cybersecurity authority warned on Tuesday that it found at least 17,000 Microsoft Exchange servers in Germany exposed online and vulnerable to one or more critical security vulnerabilities. According to the German Federal Office for Information Security, around 45,000 Microsoft Exchange servers in Germany have Outlook Web Access enabled and are accessible from the Internet.

17,000+ Microsoft Exchange servers in Germany are vulnerable to attack, BSI warns
2024-03-26 13:26

Around 12% of the 45,000 or so Microsoft Exchange servers in Germany that can be accessed from the Internet without restrictions "Are so outdated that security updates are no longer offered for them," the German Federal Office for Information Security has warned today. The BSI worries about attackers breaching those servers by exploiting CVE-2024-21410, a critical elevation of privilege bug that allows attackers to learn a targeted user's NTLM credentials and "Relay" them to authenticate themselves to a vulnerable Exchange Server as the user.

U.S. Sanctions 3 Cryptocurrency Exchanges for Helping Russia Evade Sanctions
2024-03-26 08:31

The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned three cryptocurrency exchanges for offering services used to evade economic restrictions imposed on Russia...