U.S. senators this week introduced a bill that would require critical infrastructure organizations to inform the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) if they experience a cyberattack, and it would also require most private companies to notify the government if they have made a payment in response to a ransomware attack.
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Yik Yak, an anonymous social media app that was shuttered in 2017 after coming under fire for facilitating cyberbullying, was resurrected last year with an emphasis on new protective measures including anti-bullying guardrails. But students and watchdog groups are already reporting instances of abuse, and say that the new safeguards aren’t enough to stop people […]
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Office 365 Phishing Attack Targets Financial Execs threatpost.com/office-365-phishing-attack-financial-execs/164925/ Attackers move on new CEOs, using transition confusion to harvest Microsoft credentials. Also: www.area1security.com/blog/microsoft-365-spoof-targets-financial-departments/ Hackers are exploiting a server vulnerability with a severity of 9.8 out of 10 arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/to-security-pros-dread-another-critical-server-vulnerability-is-under-exploit/ As if the mass-exploitation of Exchange servers wasn’t enough, now there’s BIG-IP. Last week, F5 disclosed and patched […]