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ADVERTISEMENT "While we all can agree more resources for our state and local governments are necessary, we must also ensure these funds are spent responsibly, and effectuate meaningful impacts on risk reduction," Garbarino testified at the hearing. "This important bill is a tremendous step forward in our fight, but we can’t stop there." State and local governments have come under intense pressure from cyber threats over the past few years, and in particular during the COVID-19 pandemic, as mo...

iTWire Tuesday, 11 May 2021 08:43 Tenable urges Microsoft to reconsider GitHub exploit removal policy Featured Microsoft has been urged to reconsider its position on removing exploits from GitHub, the code repository which it acquired in 2018, after an incident in which it removed an exploit for Microsoft Exchange Server from the site. The security firm Tenable said in a statement on Tuesday that when an exploit was removed, the security community was unable to analyse ...

May 11, 2021 Microsoft today released fixes to plug at least 55 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software. Four of these weaknesses can be exploited by malware and malcontents to seize complete, remote control over vulnerable systems without any help from users. On deck this month are patches to quash a wormable flaw, a creepy wireless bug, and yet another reason to call for the death of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) web browser. While May brings about half...

Plus: Grab your updates for Adobe, SAP, Android, Intel Share Copy Patch Tuesday Microsofts May Patch Tuesday brought a lighter-than-usual load of 55 fixes for 32 of the Windows giants applications and services, which is about half what was served up in April. The Redmond-based firms Office and Windows flagships house many of the identified vulnerabilities, alongside Internet Explorer, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Skype, and other software. Among the 55 CVEs identified by Microsoft...

Microsoft’s May 2021 Patch Tuesday updates include fixes for four critical security vulnerabilities. Microsoft’s May Patch Tuesday release addressed a modest 55 cybersecurity vulnerabilities, including just four critical bugs. It’s the smallest monthly update from the computing giant since 2020, but it does contain a patch for a concerning wormable vulnerability found in the Windows OS. The good news is that none of the vulnerabilities are being actively exploited in the wild, according t...

This month brought patches for 55 CVEs in Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, .NET Core and Visual Studio, Internet Explorer, SharePoint Server, Hyper-V, Skype for Business and Microsoft Lync, Open Source Software, and Exchange Server. Fifty of these vulnerabilities are classified as Important in severity, one as Moderate. One concerning CVE to prioritize is CVE-2021-31166, a critical remote code execution flaw in the HTTP protocol stack with a CVSS score of 9.8. An attack using this would b...

minute read Share this article: The sophisticated threat is targeting Microsoft Exchange servers via ProxyLogon in a wave of fresh attacks against North American targets. The Lemon Duck cryptocurrency-mining botnet has added the ProxyLogon group of exploits to its bag of tricks, targeting Microsoft Exchange servers. That’s according to researchers at Cisco Talos, who said that the cybercrime group behind Lemon Duck has also added the Cobalt Strike attack framework into its malwar...

© Getty Images President Biden and top administration officials said Monday they are taking a “whole of government” approach to both responding to the debilitating ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline and to strengthening the security of critical utilities moving forward.  “This is something my administration, our administration has been tracking extremely carefully, and I have been personally briefed every day,” Biden said during remarks on the economy Monday at the White House. B...

Cyber criminals hit major fuel pipeline in US, probe on US-based third-party cyber security firms were engaged to probe the nature and scope of the incident. By IANS|   Posted by Mansoor  |   Published: 9th May 2021 3:32 pm IST Representational image Washington: Cyber criminals have attacked one of the largest fuel pipelines in the US, prompting an immediate shutdown by its operator Colonial Pipeline. Colonial Pipeline, which carries 45 per cent of the fuel supplies for the eastern US, s...

Ransomware Attack on US Crude Oil Grid; Colonial Pipeline Shuts Key Line By United Nations Cyberattack Cyber criminals have attacked one of the largest fuel pipelines in the US, prompting an immediate shutdown by its operator Colonial Pipeline. Colonial Pipeline, which carries 45 per cent of the fuel supplies for the eastern US, said in a statement that it took "certain systems offline to contain the threat, which has temporarily halted all pipeline operations and affected some of our IT syste...