Tag: Government

President Biden signed an executive order Wednesday to modernize the country’s defenses against cyberattacks and give more timely access to information necessary for law enforcement to conduct investigations. […]

Researchers have now disclosed more information on how they were able to breach multiple websites of the Indian government. The full findings disclosed today shed light on the routes leveraged by the researchers, including finding exposed .git directories and .env files on some of these systems. […]

The systems of SEPE, the Spanish government agency for labor, were taken down following a ransomware attack that hit more than 700 agency offices across Spain. […]

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is taking over the administration of the.gov top-level domain (TLD) as its new policy and management authority. […]

The Department of Homeland Security’s cybersecurity unit has ordered federal agencies to urgently update or disconnect Microsoft Exchange on-premises products on their networks. […]

The transport system for the Australian state of New South Wales has suffered a data breach after the Clop ransomware exploited a vulnerability to steal files. […]

Millions of COVID-19 test reports were found to be publicly accessible due to flawed online system implementation. […]

This week a report has revealed details on the two spyware strains leveraged by state-sponsored threat actors during the India-Pakistan conflict. The malware strains named Hornbill and SunBird have been delivered as fake Android apps (APKs) by the Confucius advanced persistent threat group (APT), a state-sponsored operation. […]

This week, researchers have responsibly disclosed a vulnerability by exploiting which they could access over 100K private records of United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP). The data breach stemmed from exposed Git directories which let researchers clone Git repositories and gather PII of a large number of employees. […]

U.S. President-Elect Joe Biden has criticized the Trump administration over the lack of response regarding the SolarWinds response and for failing to officially attribute the attacks. […]