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7th Emirates Breast Pathology and Breast Cancer Conference March 5, 2021 Dear colleagues and guests welcome to the 7th Emirates Breast Pathology and Breast Cancer Conference. On behalf of the organizing committee and UCGConferences, it gives us a great pleasure to welcome you for the 7th Emirates Breast Pathology and Breast Cancer Conference on May 5-6, 2021. The idea of hosting the BreastPath2021 Conference is to gather the world’s renowned experts under one roof. We look forward to seeing y...

Fresh affiliate programs helped ransomware-as-a-service operators achieve record profits in 2020. (Source: Group-IB) Ransomware dominated the online-enabled crime landscape in 2020, some security experts say, thanks to the massive profits its been generating and the relative ease of use for attackers - including support from a burgeoning cybercrime-as-a-service market. Blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis this week reported that its found just under $370 million in known 2020 ransomware profits...

Maza cybercrime forum members details breached (Source: Flashpoint) Maza, a Russian carding and fraud discussion forum, has been breached, and hackers have leaked users email addresses and forum credentials, security firms report. The breach occurred Wednesday evening, experts say, and led to many types of information being exposed: user IDs; usernames; email addresses; passwords in both hashed and obfuscated form; Yahoo, MSN and Skype credentials; and other data that could help identify indivi...

Get Permission Hackers have targeted units of local government in the U.S. by attempting to exploit unpatched vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange email servers, according to a new report by the security firm FireEye. While Microsoft has said that a Chinese-linked hacking group that has been exploiting the vulnerabilities in Exchange is known to target infectious disease researchers, law firms, higher education institutions, defense contractors, policy think tanks and nongovernment organizati...

BankInfoSecurity Compliance Twitter Get Permission VMware has issued patches for a critical vulnerability in its virtual desktop deployment platform, View Planner, which could enable remote code execution. The vulnerability, CVE-2021-21978, has a CVSS ranking of 8.6, considered highly critical. The flaw is caused by improper input validation and lack of authorization, resulting in arbitrary file upload in VMwares View Planner web application. "An unauthorized attacker with network access to V...

GovInfoSecurity @prajeetspeaks) • March 5, 2021     Photo: Malaysia Airlines An aviation IT company that says it serves 90% of the worlds airlines has been breached in what appears to be a coordinated supply chain attack. Customers of at least four companies - Malaysia Airlines, Singapore Airlines, Finnair Airlines and Air New Zealand - may have been affected by the incident. The Switzerland-based IT company, SITA, s...

Get Permission Researchers with Microsoft and FireEye are disclosing additional malware used by the hacking group that targeted SolarWinds in December 2020, according to a pair of reports released Thursday. The newly discovered malware appears to be second-stage payloads deployed by the hacking group after victimized organizations downloaded a Trojanized software update to SolarWinds Orion network monitoring platform, which contained a backdoor dubbed "Sunburst," the reports note. While about ...

Get Permission UPDATED: Just days after Microsoft disclosed four zero-day flaws in Microsoft Exchange email servers, attackers are going on a wide hunt for vulnerable machines, some security experts say. Steven Adair, CEO and founder of the firm Volexity, which first reported the vulnerabilities, says that over the past few days, the Chinese hacking group accused of initially exploiting the flaws has shifted into high gear, stepping up attacks on any vulnerable, unpatched Exchange servers wor...

Chairman Lathrop, Vice-Chair Pansing-Brooks, and members of the Judiciary Committee, my name is Alan Smith, and I am a senior fellow and Midwest director at the R Street Institute, which is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, public policy research organization. Our mission is to engage in policy research and outreach to promote free markets and limited, effective government in many areas. R Street has a robust criminal justice portfolio and staff who have extensively researched the utility, efficacy, ex...

(Source: Mike via Flickr) The SolarWinds supply chain attack should prompt federal agencies and others to rethink how they approach security issues - especially identity and access management, according to a breakdown of the attack presented this week by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. At NISTs Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board meeting, Jay Gazlay, a technical strategist with CISA who has been exami...