US intel: Foreign actors did not hack 2020 election, but several tried to influence 10news.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from 10news.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
WASHINGTON The sophisticated hacks pulled off by Russia and China against a broad array of government and industrial targets in the United States and the failure of the intelligence agencies to detect them are driving the Biden administration and Congress to rethink how the nation should protect itself from growing cyberthreats.
Commission’s ‘Digital Green Certificate’ to help boost travel during the ongoing crisis
The proposed certificate is designed to provide proof that a person has been vaccinated against COVID-19, has recovered from it, or has received a negative test result.
Fotolia
15 Mar 2021
The Commission will unveil the proposal to MEPs in Brussels on Wednesday, but the plan could run into opposition from those who are concerned it poses a data protection risk.
Commenting ahead of the debate, German member Manfred Weber, leader of the EPP group, said, “Now that vaccination in Europe is increasing, we must have a perspective to returning to the fundamental right of free movement and travel in Europe.”
White House Weighs New Cybersecurity Approach After Failure to Detect Hacks nytimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nytimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Unlike previous notable F5 exploits, not all of these can be easily hand-waved away by restricting external access to the administrative interfaces known as the control plane, says Justin Rhinehart, senior analyst at Bishop Fox. Two critical exploits disclosed this week affect the so-called data plane, which is the part responsible for handing any and all traffic going through the BIG-IP platform, he says. The only way to mitigate these exploits is by patching.
In a worst-case scenario, Rhinehart says, an attacker can use a vulnerable F5 BIG-IP appliance to break into the broader enterprise network. Remote command execution in a location with such privileged access is absolutely the stuff of nightmares, he says, Attackers can use these devices to gain a foothold on a victim s network [and] attack sensitive targets that are not usually accessible from the outside world.