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Good morning and welcome to 10 Things in Tech. If this was forwarded to you, Lets get started. 1. From Facebook to Apple, heres how corporate America responded to Derek Chauvins guilty verdict. After the ex-cop was found guilty of murdering George Floyd, Big Techs CEOs posted on social media and sent internal memos to employees. This is what some of the top execs said.  2. Microsoft research shows back-to-back virtual meetings make you stressed, but theres a cure. Researchers found that takin...

Cyber criminals are said to have chained three flaws, CVE-2021-20021, CVE-2021-20022, and CVE-2021-20023, together to install a backdoor, access files and emails, and move across the victim’s organisation. These vulnerabilities were first discovered in March 2021, and a hotfix was made available for the first two flaws on 9 April 2021. SonicWall then released a fix for the final vulnerability this week, before disclosing details of the exploitation. Hackers exploit Pulse Secure VPN flaws Tw...

Cyber Attack Targeting Americas Remote Workers Points To China KEY POINTS CISA issued an emergency directive -- a move rarely done unless there is high-risk potential The attack is the third discovered serious hacking for 2021 The United States is facing its third severe and distinct cyber attack in a span of a few months. The attack that points out to China allegedly targets remote workers in the country. On April 21, Mandiant, a cybersecurity firm under FireEye confirmed the presence of anoth...

A member of the hacking group Red Hacker Alliance monitoring global cyberattacks on his computer at their office in Dongguan, Chinas southern Guangdong province. Photo: Nicolas Sfouri/AFP via Getty Images The Chinese Communist Party is believed to be responsible for newly found hack attacks on the U.S. government, businesses and American infrastructure, cybersecurity company Mandiant said Wednesday. Why it matters: This is the third major cybersecurity breach to hit the U.S. in recent months �...

For months, hackers with suspected ties to China have exploited a popular workplace tool to break into government agencies, defense companies and

Crucial flaw wont be fixed until next month Share Copy Dozens of defense companies, government agencies, and financial organizations in America and abroad appear to have been compromised by China via vulnerabilities in their Pulse Connect Secure VPN appliances – including a zero-day flaw that wont be patched until next month. On Tuesday, IT software supplier Ivanti, the parent of Pulse Secure, issued a wake-up call to its customers by revealing it looks as though select clients were c...

Spy groups hack into companies using zero-day flaw in Pulse Secure VPN Known and unknown groups are using VPN vulnerabilities to circumvent authentication and establish backdoors. Credit: Dreamstime Over the past few months, several cyber espionage groups, including one believed to be tied to the Chinese government, have been breaking into the networks of organisations from the United States and Europe by exploiting vulnerabilities in VPN appliances from zero-trust access provider...

Government agencies breached in hacking campaign targeting Pulse Secure VPN appliances SHARE Multiple U.S. government agencies have been breached by suspected Chinese state-sponsored hackers who exploited vulnerabilities in Pulse Secure LLC virtual private network appliances. Confirmed by cybersecurity company FireEye Inc. and Pulse Secure itself along with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency, the attacks are believed to...

minute read Share this article: CVE-2021-22893 allows remote code-execution (RCE) and is being used in the wild by nation-state cyberattackers to compromise VPN appliances in defense, finance and government orgs. A critical zero-day security vulnerability in Pulse Secure VPN devices has been exploited by nation-state actors to launch cyberattacks against U.S. defense, finance and government targets, as well as victims in Europe, researchers said. Download “The Evolution of Ransom...

Omar Marques/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The FireEye cybersecurity firm said Tuesday that Pulse Secure VPN had been compromised since June 2020. Researchers said "defense, government, and financial organizations around the world" were affected. FireEye said it suspects the Chinese government-linked UNC2630 hacking group was behind it. Hackers with suspected ties to the Chinese government have been targeting US and international government departments, ...