Microsoft’s May 2021 Patch Tuesday updates include fixes for four critical security vulnerabilities.
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Risk Management Strategy Fundamentals
Cyber security is one of many risk functions within an organization, but the various functions may not work together as closely as they should to collectively lower the company’s risk profile. Securit…
iPhone Hack Allegedly Used to Spy on China’s Uyghurs
U.S. intelligence said that the Chaos iPhone remote takeover exploit was used against the minority ethnic group before Apple could patch the problem.
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Major U.S. Pipeline Crippled in Ransomware Attack
Colonial Pipeline says it is the victim of a cyberattack that forced the major provider of liquid fuels to the East Coast to temporarily halted all pipeline operations.
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Cyber Hygiene, Cyber Humans & Cyber Automation
There were three prevalent themes- hygiene, humans and automation. On hygiene- time and time again, presenters suggested that it doesn’t matter what you do, it doesn’t matter what you implement and it…
IOTW: DC Police Department Hit with Ransomware; Hackers "Quit"
Incident is reflective of an evolution of ransomware attacks, from encrypting files and demanding ransom money for a decryption key to encrypting the file and threatening to publish the information if…
U.S. Data Privacy Legislation: Proposed & Pending Regulations
In a quest to provide a global overview of cyber-related legislation and regulation we have focused on Regulation through Global Data Protection and Security Laws, and APAC Data Protection and Securit…
Incident Detection and Response Basics Greatly Matter
Cyber security professionals know there are two types of organizations: those that have been breached and those that will be breached. The question isn’t whether organizations will be attacked. The qu…
IOTW: University of California Schools Hit with Ransomware Attack
The company released a patch for the 20-year-old product within 72 hours to the less than 50 customers that had been affected. In early February, Accellion stated it had notified all affected FTA cust…
Approaching Resiliency
As the goal is never accomplished, the CISO then must consistently be approaching resiliency. The CSHub Global Summit actually has a session dedicated to Approaching Resiliency as the first session on…

