TWO WEEKS OUT from the longest government shutdown in United States history—and with the possibility of another still looming—government employees are still scrambling to mitigate impacts on federal cybersecurity defenses. And the stakes are high. Furloughed cybersecurity employees returned to expired software licenses and web encryption certificates, colleagues burned out from working on skeleton crews, and weeks-worth of unanalyzed network activity logs. The ...

Authorities in Australia say they are investigating an attempt to hack into its parliament’s computer network. Lawmakers said there was “no evidence” that information had been accessed or stolen, but politicians’ passwords have been reset as a precaution. Local cyber-security experts have suggested the hack likely came from a foreign state. Australian PM Scott Morrison said he didn’t intend to ...

While the number of DDoS attacks have declined, they have become much more sophisticated, according to a Kaspersky Lab report. The last quarter of 2018 saw the longest DDoS attack since 2015, lasting 329 hours—almost 2 weeks—according to a Kaspersky Lab report released on Thursday. But the top three countries with the most DDoS attacks are still the same: China in first place ...

Officials are investigating the security incident that occurred on the government’s computer network. Following the hack attempt, the Department of Parliamentary Services announced that it reset all user passwords in the network. The Australian Parliament became a victim to a hacking attempt yesterday, allegedly perpetrated by a foreign entity. Reportedly, ‘no evidence’ was available to show whether any confidential information ...

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A suspected cyber-attack “potentially compromised” the bank account details of 200 workers at Bernard Matthews.The Norfolk-based turkey producer said it was alerted by its bank on 22 January, as first reported in the EDP.“We reported the incident to the relevant authorities and put in place extra security measures,” a spokesman said.“We continue to monitor the situation but we are not aware ...

As noted in the SentinelOne-sponsored EMA Security Megatrends 2019 report, the two greatest threats currently facing enterprise are ransomware and ATAs, advanced targeted attacks that have been designed for a specific environment. The last two years have seen an increase in both kinds of threats, as well as their combination: targeted ransomware such as Ryuk, SamSam, and now Matrix.Matrix variants have been observed before, but a ...

The malware appears to be a variant of the infamous NanoCore trojan.CSV files containing the malware payload circumvent Google filters using Google Sheets as a distribution method.A unique malware that uses Google Sheets has been discovered by well-known cyber security researcher Marco Ramili. The malware is found to be an improved version of the NanoCore RAT detected in 2014. It ...

Google has rolled out a new Chrome extension that will inform users if their passwords have been compromised.The service, which was introduced as part of Google’s Safer Internet Day offerings, is called Password Checkup. The Chrome extension checks a person’s username and password against a list of four billion credentials that are known to be compromised. If a match occurs the extension ...