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Several New York Times Staff Previously Worked For CCP-Controlled Media: Report Several current New York Times staffers were previously employed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-controlled English-language newspaper China Daily, which has in recent years paid U.S. media millions of dollars to publish its state-approved content. Current employees at the New York Times who formerly worked for the Chinese state-run media outlet include; Jonah Kessel, Director of Cinematography at the Times; Diarmuid McDermott, a current Staff Editor and Designer at the outlet; and Europe culture reporter Ale...

Fortune 500 Security Shows Progress and Pitfalls Fortune 500 companies have improved on email security and vulnerability disclosure programs but struggle in asset management and high-risk services. A deep dive into the security of Fortune 500 organizations reveals they have improved, albeit "slowly and unevenly," with gains made in email security and vulnerability disclosure programs (VDPs) and progress lagging in asset management and high-risk services, researchers report. Rapid7's "Internet Cyber-Exposure Report" aims to highlight critical security issues for the CISO, IT security staff, an...

Voice-Changing Software Found on APT Attackers' Server Security researchers believe the presence of Morph Vox Pro could indicate APT-C-23 has new plans for their phishing campaigns. The discovery of voice-changing software on the server of APT-C-23 could have implications for the group's future phishing attacks, Cado Security researchers report. APT-C-23, a group connected to attacks in the Middle East, is known as part of a larger group called "Molerats" that is mostly located in Palestine, the report states. Molerats usually target political parties in Palestine and the Israeli government, ...

The numbers come from Microsoft's new "Security Signals" report, conducted by Hypothesis Group, which polled 1,000 decision-makers involved with security and threat protection at enterprise companies. Of these, 83% had been hit with a firmware attack in the past two years. Firmware has become a hot target for cybercrime in recent years as software security has improved. The TrickBot malware last year added a module to inspect devices for firmware vulnerabilities that could enable attackers to read, write, or erase the UEFI/BIOS firmware. Last October, a rare firmware rootkit was detected targ...

Hardware Cyberattacks: How Worried Should You Be? How to fit hardware threats into your security model as hardware becomes smaller, faster, cheaper, and more complex. For most organizations, it's time to put modern hardware threats into perspective. This year has had its share of hardware scares. We kicked off 2018 with the Spectre and Meltdown attacks; most recently, a Bloomberg BusinessWeek report detailed how Chinese plants implanted network monitoring and control chips on motherboards made for Supermicro. Hardware technology – and, consequently, hardware attacks – have come a long way...