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© Thinkstock On Feb. 17, a remarkable White House press briefing addressed possible executive action in the wake of the SolarWinds hack, the most systematic hack of the U.S. government in history.  Anne Neuberger, deputy national security advisor for cybersecurity and emerging technology, described it as “more than a single incident of espionage” with the potential to lead to crippling, destructive cyberattacks by Russia. SolarWinds is the latest victim of a series of hacks against softwa...

Read more about Quad leaders discussed cyber attacks during virtual meet: White House on Business Standard. The leaders of the Quad countries discussed the issue of cyber attacks during talks conducted earlier in the day, US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said on Friday

To deliver next-gen identity and access management capabilitiesHappiest Minds Technologies has entered into a partnership with Ilantus Technologies to enhance its Identity and Access Management capabilities while supporting customers in their Cybersecurity journey. The partnership with Ilantus is in line with the vision to strengthen the Identity and Access Management within organizations by leveraging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning to have comprehensive v...

New Browser Attack Allows Tracking Users Online With JavaScript Disabled Researchers have discovered a new side-channel that they say can be reliably exploited to leak information from web browsers that could then be leveraged to track users even when JavaScript is completely disabled. "This is a side-channel attack which doesnt require any JavaScript to run," the researchers said. "This means script blockers cannot stop it. The attacks work even if you strip out all of the fun parts of the web...

BRATISLAVA – ESET , a global cybersecurity leader, has been recognized as a Top Player for the second year in a row in Radicati’s 2021 Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) Protection Market Quadrant .

ProxyLogon PoC Exploit Released; Likely to Fuel More Disruptive Cyber Attacks The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Wednesday issued a joint advisory warning of active exploitation of vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange on-premises products by nation-state actors and cybercriminals. "CISA and FBI assess that adversaries could exploit these vulnerabilities to compromise networks, steal information, encrypt data for ran...

Photo: Martin Bureau (Getty Images) A hacker group claims to have recently broken into the networks of cloud-based surveillance firm Verkada, a Silicon Valley startup that sells and manages security systems to thousands of organizations across the country. Advertisement Once inside the firm’s walls, the hackers were able to use its 150,000 live camera feeds to peer into the internal workings of countless organizations, including medical facilities, psychiatric hospitals, jails, schools and po...

  On April 30, 2015 the Office of Personnel Management briefed Congress on a major incident involving the cyber theft of what would later be called the “crown jewels” — the highly personal information on government employees with security clearances. The first Congressional oversight hearing took place twelve days later, which started a year-long investigation putting the agency under a microscope and ultimately led to the resignations of the director of OPM and its chief information off...

Read more about Data Privacy: Intel collaborates with Microsoft to tackle final frontier on Business Standard. Intel has collaborated with Microsoft on Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency programme in the US, to tackle the final frontier in data privacy

SolarWinds Hack — New Evidence Suggests Potential Links to Chinese Hackers A malicious web shell deployed on Windows systems by leveraging a previously undisclosed zero-day in SolarWinds Orion network monitoring software may have been the work of a possible Chinese threat group. In a report published by Secureworks on Monday, the cybersecurity firm attributed the intrusions to a threat actor it calls Spiral. Back on December 22, 2020, Microsoft disclosed that a second espionage group may have...