Widely Used Software Company May Be Entry Point for Huge U.S. Hacking Russian hackers may have piggybacked on a tool developed by JetBrains, which is based in the Czech Republic, to gain access to fed

As Understanding of Russian Hacking Grows, So Does Alarm Those behind the widespread intrusion into government and corporate networks exploited seams in U.S. defenses and gave away nothing to American

Microsoft Says Russian Hackers Viewed Some of Its Source Code The hackers gained more access than the company previously understood, though they were unable to modify code or get into its products and

A lot of people are surprised when I tell them that computer security isn’t really a priority in most companies, or for our society in general. I captured this in my piece Why Software Remains Insecur

5 Min Read WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The suspected Russian hackers behind the worst U.S. cyber attack in years leveraged reseller access to Microsoft Corp services to penetrate targets that had no compro

The hacking campaign that infected numerous government agencies and tech companies with malicious SolarWinds software has also infected more than a dozen critical infrastructure companies in the elect

Russians Are Believed to Have Used Microsoft Resellers in Cyberattacks Evidence from the security firm CrowdStrike suggests that companies that sell software on behalf of Microsoft were used to break

2 Min Read WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. cybersecurity agency said on Wednesday that a sprawling cyber espionage campaign made public earlier this month is affecting state and local governments, alt

As forensic evidence is slowly being unearthed in the aftermath of the SolarWinds supply chain attack, security researchers have discovered a second threat actor that has exploited the SolarWinds soft

Published 18 December 2020 Share page About sharing Image source, Reuters Image caption, The FBI is among those investigating the hacking campaign The US energy department is the latest agency to conf

Image via Mohammad Rezaie Microsoft said it identified more than 40 of its customers that installed trojanized versions of the SolarWinds Orion platform and where hackers escalated intrusions with add

1 Min Read FILE PHOTO: A Microsoft logo is seen in Los Angeles, California U.S. November 7, 2017. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Microsoft was hacked as part of the suspected Russian ca

Hackers accessed systems at the National Nuclear Security Administration, which maintains the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile. The Energy Department and National Nuclear Security Administration have ev

I Was the Homeland Security Adviser to Trump. We’re Being Hacked. The magnitude of this national security breach is hard to overstate. Dec. 16, 2020 By Mr. Bossert was the homeland security adviser to

Scope of Russian Hacking Becomes Clear: Multiple U.S. Agencies Were Hit The Pentagon, intelligence agencies, nuclear labs and Fortune 500 companies use software that was found to have been compromised

By Reuters Staff 1 Min Read FILE PHOTO: U.S. Department of Homeland Security emblem is pictured at the National Cybersecurity & Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) located just outside Washingto

Russian government hackers breached the Treasury and Commerce departments, along with other U.S. government agencies, as part of a global espionage campaign that stretches back months, according to pe

1 Min Read WASHINGTON (Reuters) - IT company SolarWinds said on Sunday that monitoring products it released in March and June of this year may have been surreptitiously tampered with in a “highly-soph

Image: UiPath Tech unicorn UiPath, a startup that makes robotics automation software, is currently emailing users about a security incident that exposed their personal information online. "On December

4 Min Read LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. drugmaker Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech said on Wednesday that documents related to development of their COVID-19 vaccine had been “unlawfully accessed” in

FireEye, a Top Cybersecurity Firm, Says It Was Hacked by a Nation-State The Silicon Valley company said hackers — almost certainly Russian — made off with tools that could be used to mount new attacks

Enlarge / That's a lot of screen. Samuel Axon Earlier this year, Apple patched one of the most breathtaking iPhone vulnerabilities ever: a memory corruption bug in the iOS kernel that gave attackers r

Image: Jim Reardan In attempts to put pressure on victims, some ransomware gangs are now cold-calling victims on their phones if they suspect that a hacked company might try to restore from backups an

In just the last two months, the cybercriminal-controlled botnet known as TrickBot has become, by some measures, public enemy number one for the cybersecurity community. It's survived takedown attempt

Enlarge / Zoom founder and CEO Eric Yuan speaks before the Nasdaq opening bell ceremony on April 18, 2019, in New York City as the company announced its IPO. Getty Images | Kena Betancur Zoom has agre

Getty Images / WIRED On the night of September 11, paramedics in Düsseldorf, Germany, were alerted to the deteriorating condition of a 78-year-old woman suffering from an aortic aneurysm . What began

I think there are four main trends that will play out in the field of information security in the next 20 years. (2021-2030) A Surge in Demand for InfoSec people will result in many more professionals

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has sent out a security alert warning that threat actors are abusing misconfigured SonarQube applications to access and steal source code repositories from US gover

Is it a lemon? In cybersecurity, nobody knows. getty Economic theory says that capitalists will always sell products that do their stated job well because if they don’t, eventually they’ll have no cus

How Ransomware Puts Your Hospital at Risk In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, the potential consequences of cyberattacks are terrifying. Oct. 17, 2020 Credit... Chris Gash By Dr. Wolff is an assist

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As businesses are increasingly migrating to the cloud, securing the infrastructure has never been more important. Now according to the latest research, two security flaws in Microsoft's Azure App Serv

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Last week, we launched code scanning for all open source and enterprise developers , and we promised we’d share more on our extensibility capabilities and the GitHub security ecosystem. Today, we’re h

Ninety-nine percent of enterprise codebases contain open source components, according to a recent study . But amid that overwhelming adoption, a hazard has emerged: Organizations have lost visibility

If you’ve read Maya’s post on DevSecOps, shifting left, and GitOps you might be wondering “how do I implement these security principles in practice?” Let’s dive deeper with a practical example: integr

The Joint Operations Center inside Fort Meade in Maryland is a cathedral to cyber warfare. Part of a 380,000-square-foot, $520 million complex opened in 2018, the office is the nerve center for both t

SAN FRANCISCO, August 27, 2020 – Fastly, Inc. (NYSE: FSLY), provider of an edge cloud platform, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Signal Sciences (“Signal Scie

“We created DarkSide because we didn’t find the perfect product for us,” reads the launch announcement. “Now we have it.” It’s a line that could come out of any number of VC-friendly pitch decks, but