Biden Orders Foreign Investment Panel to Analyze Deals and Assess Security Risks
In an executive order, U.S. President Joe Biden directed the committee, which analyzes foreign investment for national security risks, to focus more on threats to sensitive data, cybersecurity, microelectronics, and artificial intelligence. He instructed the United States Treasury’s Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) to carefully examine transactions that could jeopardize the […]
Zoom Fix Issues that Prevent Users from Starting or Participating in Meetings
Zoom Video Communications, which offers a cloud-based communication platform for video conferencing, online meetings and collaboration via mobile phones, desktop and phone systems and apps, announced that the problem that prevented users from starting and joining meetings has been resolved. Zoom confirmed the problems after more than 40,000 users reported receiving error messages saying “sorry, […]
Star Alliance Wants Half of its Members to Introduce Biometric Data by 2025
The world’s largest airline coalition, Star Alliance, wants about half of its 26 members to use biometric technology, including facial recognition, which allows individuals to use their face as a boarding pass, by 2025. With increasing demand for contactless travel and a reduction in the number of passengers after COVID-19, the group wants half of […]
FBI Warns Healthcare Payment Services of new Method of Theft by Hackers
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued a warning about hackers attacking healthcare payment services to channel payments into bank accounts managed by the threat actors, after more than $4.6 million was stolen from healthcare companies this year alone. According to the FBI, hackers redirected more than $4.6 million to their accounts in three […]
Microsoft Teams Flaw Grant Hackers Access to Authentication Tokens
Security researchers from Vectra have uncovered a vulnerability in the desktop app for Microsoft Teams that could give threat actors access to authentication tokens and accounts with multi factor authentication. Microsoft Teams is an Electron app that implies that it runs in a browser window, complete with all the elements required for a regular website. However, […]
