New US Bill Wants to Assign State Cybersecurity Coordinators
Four U.S. Senators have introduced a bipartisan bill that will require the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to appoint cybersecurity effort coordinators in every state to orchestrate cyberattack response and remediation efforts, and to improve coordination between federal, state, and local entities. […]
How Malware Gains Trust by Abusing the Windows CryptoAPI Flaw
The new Windows CryptoAPI CVE-2020-0601 vulnerability disclosed by the NSA can be abused by malware developers to sign their executables so that they appear to be from legitimate companies. This creates trust in the program, which may cause a user to be more willing to execute them. […]
WeLeakInfo.com Seized For Selling Info from Data Breaches, 2 Arrested
As a clear indication of how law enforcement views the commercial disclosure of stolen information, the FBI has seized the WeLeakInfo.com domain and arrested two individuals for selling subscriptions to data exposed in breaches. […]