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Published: May 21st, 2021 Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Friday May 21st, I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com. The Conti ransomware gang is trying to mend its dented reputation for scrambling the data of Ireland’s healthcare system. Yesterday it published a link to a free decryptor, which will allow the system to unscramble the files. That will be a relief to people worried about the loss of important medical or employee information. Ma...

Cybercriminals usually race to take advantage of disclosed vulnerabilities in popular pieces of software, but they were especially quick to attack Microsoft Exchange servers.

PDF Criminals began to scan the Internet for vulnerable Microsoft Exchange Servers within five minutes of the disclosure of critical zero-day flaws patched in early March, researchers report. In the "2021 Cortex Xpanse Attack Surface Threat Report, " Palo Alto Networks researchers examine threat data from 50 organizations, and some 50 million IP addresses, collected in the first quarter. Their analysis reveals attackers scan to inventory vulnerable Internet assets once per hour and even more of...

Lawmakers press Biden to create plan to secure economy after Colonial Pipeline attack Maggie Miller © Courtesy Colonial Pipeline Lawmakers press Biden to create plan to secure economy after Colonial Pipeline attack The bipartisan leaders of the House Homeland Security Committee on Tuesday urged President Biden to ensure there is a plan in place to ensure the nations economy is not disrupted by a major cyberattack. The concerns, voiced as part of a letter sent to Biden by Comm...

Security News in Review: Biden Administration Aims to Disrupt Ransomware Gangs Community Chats Webinars Library Security News in Review: Biden Administration Aims to Disrupt Ransomware Gangs This week in Security News in Review, you’ll find plans from the U.S. government on disrupting threat actor networks, more action from the DarkSide gang, and FIN7 masquerading as a security analysis firm.  US government plans to disrupt hackers behind Colonial Pipeline ransomware, Biden says �...

Following a spate of high-profile cyberattacks, the US government has announced an overhaul to its cybersecurity policy through an executive order.

| About | Greg Lambert evaluates the risks to existing applications and environments in each months Patch Tuesday cycle. Browser updates are back for the Mays Patch Tuesday This months Patch Tuesday round-up includes 55 updates, three publicly reported vulnerabilities and possible public exploits for Adobe Reader. In other words, the update will require some testing before being deployed. Putilich / Getty Images With 55 updates, three publicly reported vulnerabilities a...

A senior administration official told reporters Wednesday that the executive order, which has been in the works since early in the Biden administration, is meant to serve as an example to the private sector of the federal government taking the lead on strengthening cybersecurity. “Today more than ever, cybersecurity is a national security imperative and an economic imperative,” the senior administration official said. “Today’s executive order makes a down payment towards modernizing our...

Move comes amid a wave of major hacks, such as this week’s pipeline shutdown.

Biden signs US cybersecurity decree The decree removes "barriers to threat information sharing between government and the private sector", modernizes and implements stronger cybersecurity standards in the federal government, improves software supply chain security US President Joe Biden© AP Photo/Evan Vucci WASHINGTON, May 13. /TASS/. US President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed an executive order on cybersecurity and protecting federal government networks from cyberattacks, according to a sta...