Daily NCSC-FI news followup 2021-01-31

Ransomware: Cyberattack forces Houston County schools to postpone opening day www.scmagazine.com/home/security-news/malware/cyberattack-forces-houston-county-schools-to-postpone-opening-day/ Ransomware: Syracuse, NY and Watertown, NY City School Districts have been targeted in a ransomware attack spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/watertown/news/2019/07/30/watertown-the-latest-school-system-targeted-by-cyber-attack Ransomware: Steps to Safeguard Against Ransomware Attacks www.us-cert.gov/ncas/current-activity/2019/07/30/steps-safeguard-against-ransomware-attacks 1. Back up systems – now (and daily). Store one copy offline.. 2. Reinforce basic cybersecurity awareness and education. […]

Twitter will remove dubious 5G tweets that could potentially cause harm’ techcrunch.com/2020/04/22/twitter-will-remove-dubious-5g-tweets-that-could-potentially-cause-harm/ “We’re prioritizing the removal of COVID-19 content when it has a call to action that could potentially cause harm, “ First version of Apple and Google’s contact tracing API should be available to developers next week techcrunch.com/2020/04/23/first-version-of-apple-and-googles-contact-tracing-api-should-be-available-to-developers-next-week/ The first version of Apple and […]

Phishers are Angling for Your Cloud Providers krebsonsecurity.com/2019/08/phishers-are-angling-for-your-cloud-providers/ Many companies are now outsourcing their marketing efforts to cloud-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) providers. But when accounts at those CRM providers get hacked or phished, the results can be damaging for both the clients brand and their customers. Heres a look at a recent CRM-based phishing […]