PRESS RELEASE Houston, Texas – Black Girls Do Engineer recently signed an Educational Partnership Agreement (EPA) with National Security Agency in an effort to continue to play a key role…
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KnowBe4 will acquire Egress
PRESS RELEASE Tampa Bay, Florida (April 24, 2024) – KnowBe4, the provider of the world’s largest security awareness training and phishing simulation platform, today announced that it has entered into…
City street lights in disarray after the cyber attack
Following a cyber attack that caused operational problems, the city council of Leicester City, England, is still struggling with street lights that fail to turn off. Beaumont Leys resident Roger…
Iran deceives US military contractors and government agencies in cyber campaign
An elite team of Iranian state-sponsored hackers successfully infiltrated hundreds of thousands of employee accounts at U.S. companies and government agencies as part of a multi-year cyber espionage campaign aimed…
Researchers detail multi-stage attack hijacking systems with SSLoad and Cobalt Strike
April 24, 2024PressroomMalware/endpoint security Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an ongoing attack campaign that leverages phishing emails to spread malware called SSLLoad. The campaign, code name ICE CREAM#SHADOW from Securonix, also…
3 DPRK APTs spied on South Korea’s defense industry
North Korea’s major advanced persistent threats (APTs) have been silently spying on South Korean defense contractors for at least a year and a half, infiltrating about 10 organizations. South Korean…
US Treasury sanctions Iranian companies and individuals linked to cyberattacks
April 24, 2024PressroomCyber attack/cyber espionage The US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Monday sanctioned two companies and four individuals for their involvement in malicious cyber activities…
A “good” year for OT cyber attacks
COMMENT Waterfall Security Solutions, in collaboration with ICS Strive, recently released its “Threat Report 2024.” The bad news is that, in 2023, there were 68 cyberattacks that shut down more…
A question and answer session with festival co-founder Garik Israelian
video Dr. Israelian talks about Starmus’ vision and mission, the importance of inspiring and engaging audiences, and the strong sense of community within the Starmus universe April 23, 2024 In…
Major security flaws put keystrokes at risk for more than 1 billion Chinese keyboard app users
April 24, 2024PressroomMobile encryption/security Security vulnerabilities discovered in cloud-based Pinyin keyboard apps could be exploited to reveal user keystrokes to malicious actors. The findings come from Citizen Lab, which discovered…