Soft skills are vital for women to succeed, says cybersecurity panel
Time management and being able to drive change were among the skills women speakers said have been vaulable in the
Microsoft office 365 phishing campaign impersonates U.S. agencies
An ongoing phishing campaign aimed at U.S. government contractors now includes much larger baits and better-crafted documents. Attackers are now soliciting bids for lucrative government projects and redirecting them to phishing sites that look like legitimate federal agency portals. There are now a variety of lures used in the messages including improved phishing web page […]
Cyber Security Today, Sept. 21, 2022 – Browser malware spreading, Emotet botnet offers different ransomware, and more
This episode reports on browser malware, ransomware and a data breach at America
Salesforce partners Genie to transform data movement on its platforms
Salesforce has announced Genie, a real-time data integration platform that aims to make the dream of more valuable real-time customer experiences a reality by moving data quickly to where it is needed. According to Patrick Stokes, EVP and General Manager of Platform at Salesforce, Genie effectively enables the world’s first real-time Customer Relationship Management system […]
How electric vehicles could save U.S. power grid
Electric vehicles (EV) are being touted as the messiah to save America’s power grid after California passed a law banning the sale of new gasoline-powered vehicles from 2035, allowing home lights to run on an electric vehicle’s fully charged battery. According to Clifford Rechtschaffen, commissioner of the California Public Utilities Commission, bi-directional or vehicle-to-grid charging, […]
Imperva mitigate 25.3 billion request DDoS attack on customer
Imperva broke a new record when the company’s mitigation solution was able to defend one of its customers against a single attack that sent more than 25.3 billion requests. While attacks with peaks of more than one million requests per second (RPS) last between several seconds and a few minutes, the Imperva mitigated attack lasted […]
Hackers use MFA fatigue to bypass multi-factor authentication
A social engineering technique called “MFA fatigue,” also known as “MFA push spam,” is gaining traction as attackers use the technique to bypass multi-factor authentication checks. An MFA fatigue attack occurs when a threat actor runs a script that attempts to log in repeatedly with stolen credentials, resulting in an endless stream of MFA push […]
Morgan Stanley agrees to pay $35 million fine for data security lapses
Morgan Stanley will pay a $35 million fine to the Securities and Exchange Commission for data security failures. This includes reselling unencrypted hard drives from decommissioned data centers on auction platforms without first deleting them and not safeguarding the information of customers when displacing company hard drives and servers. According to the SEC, Morgan Stanley’s […]
American Airlines suffers cyberattack that exposed user data
American Airlines, based in Fort Worth, Texas, said hackers had cracked some employee email accounts and gained access to the personal information of a very small number of customers and employees, but declined to say how many. According to Montana law enforcement officials, the airline told customers that the breach was discovered in July and […]
Nvidia launches flagship chip with AI capabilities
Nvidia Corp launched new flagship chips called Ada Lovelace for video gamers that use artificial intelligence (AI) to improve graphics. The company said that the AI will be used in the chips to improve video game graphics, predict what some pixels should look like without having to perform a whole series of calculations, and create […]
