Beware of These 3 Scams Making the Rounds This Tax Season
On March 17, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Treasury Department announced the extension of the federal income tax filing due date from April 15, 2021 to May 17, 2021. This decision is designed “to help taxpayers navigate the unusual circumstances related to the pandemic,” IRS Commissioner Chuck ... Read More
How Tripwire Can Help U.S. Federal Agencies Implement the CIS Controls
Digital attackers are increasingly launching sophisticated campaigns in an effort to target U.S. federal agencies and other organizations. Two recent examples demonstrate this reality. These are the SolarWinds supply chain attack and the HAFNIUM Exchange exploit campaign. The SolarWinds Supply Chain Attack In mid-December 2020, the security community learned that ... Read More
3 Best Practices for Building Secure Container Images
Organizations are increasingly turning to containers to fuel their digital transformations. According to BMC, a 2019 survey found that more than 87% of respondents were running containers—up from 55% just two years earlier. Additionally, 90% of survey participants that were running applications in containers were doing so in production. That ... Read More
Personal Info for More Than Half a Billion Facebook Users Leaked Online
Someone leaked the phone numbers and personal information for over half a billion Facebook users online. Alon Gal, CTO at cybercrime intelligence firm Hudson Rock, tweeted out that someone had dumped hundreds of millions of Facebook records onto a hacking forum: ... Read More
Whistleblower Accuses Ubiquiti of Downplaying Major Data Breach
A security professional who assisted Ubiquiti in its response to a data breach accused the Internet-of-Things (IoT) device vendor of having downplayed the incident’s severity ... Read More
FBI Pegs 2020 Cybercrime Costs at $4 Billion – Actual Losses Likely Higher
Cybercrime cost the American public over $4 billion in reported losses over the course of 2020, according to the FBI. In its Internet Crime Report 2020, the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) revealed that it had received 791,790 complaints of digital crime in 2020 ... Read More
SolarWinds Attacks Recovery Effort Could Take U.S. Government 18 Months
The U.S. government could take up to 18 months in its efforts to recover from the SolarWinds supply chain attack, explained the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) ... Read More
Live Feeds of 150K Surveillance Cameras Compromised in Verkada Breach
Digital attackers compromised the live feeds of 150,000 surveillance cameras made by enterprise security camera system manufacturer Verkada. According to Bloomberg News, a hacking collective that calls itself “Advanced Persistent Threat 69420” gained access to Verkada by misusing a “Super Admin” account at the company ... Read More
Kia Motors America: Ransomware Not Behind Extended Systems Outage
Kia Motors America stated that a ransomware attack was not the apparent cause of an extended systems outage affecting the automobile dealer’s IT systems. It all started with an error message… ... Read More
Kia Motors America: Ransomware Not Behind Extended Systems Outage
Kia Motors America stated that a ransomware attack was not the apparent cause of an extended systems outage affecting the automobile dealer’s IT systems. It all started with an error message… ... Read More
