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New research from RiskRecon and the Cyentia Institute pinpointed risk in third-party healthcare supply chain and showed that healthcare's high exposure rate indicates that managing a comparatively small Internet footprint is a big challenge for many organizations in that sector. There is a silver lining: gaining the visibility needed to pinpoint and rectify exposures in the healthcare risk surface is feasible.
Commentary: Open source has never been more popular, which means it's time to figure out how to effectively secure the open source you use. The world is made of software, and upwards of 99% of any software you use-open source or proprietary-includes open source components.
Financial institutions have interdependent supply chains that offer a "Broad, target-rich attack surface that adversaries can undermine," a new report from Accenture warns. Supply chains, which introduce increasingly interconnected attack surfaces.
One of the alleged hackers was first profiled here in 2012 as the owner of a Chinese antivirus firm. Security firm FireEye dubbed that hacking blitz "One of the broadest campaigns by a Chinese cyber espionage actor we have observed in recent years."
The Atlantic Council has a released a report that looks at the history of computer supply chain attacks. Deep Impact from State Actors: There were at least 27 different state attacks against the software supply chain including from Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran as well as India, Egypt, the United States, and Vietnam.
Together with Nate Kim and Trey Herr, I have written a paper on IoT supply chain security. The basic problem we try to solve is: How do you enforce IoT security regulations when most of the stuff is made in other countries? And our solution is: enforce the regulations on the domestic company that's selling the stuff to consumers.
Hackers are targeting German companies tasked with replenishing the nation's supply of personal protective equipment. The X-Force team believes that the corporation is being targeted specifically because of its status within the task force, and the phishing campaign is part of a larger effort by an unknown hacking crew to disrupt the PPE supply chain in Germany.
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Japan-based systems integrator NTT Communications has disclosed a recent data breach that it said impacted hundreds of customers. NTT Communications did not clarify what kind of data may have been accessed, nor did it mention how attackers were able to move laterally on the network.
GitHub revealed on Thursday that tens of open source NetBeans projects hosted on its platform were targeted by a piece of malware as part of what appears to be a supply chain attack. GitHub learned about the malware, which has been named Octopus Scanner, on March 9 from a security researcher who noticed that several repositories hosted on GitHub had been serving malware, likely without their owners' knowledge.