Catalin Cimpanu reports: A security researcher has published today details about four zero-day vulnerabilities impacting an IBM security product after the company refused to patch bugs following a private bug disclosure attempt. The bugs impact the IBM Data Risk Manager (IDRM), an enterprise security tool that aggregates feeds from vulnerability scanning tools and other risk management…
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Supreme Court to Consider Whether Improper Data Access Violates Computer Crime Law
From EPIC.org: The Supreme Court will decide whether a person who is authorized to access data for some purposes violates the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act if they access the information for other purposes. The case, Van Buren v. United States, concerns a police officer who accessed a law enforcement database to sell the information to…
Cognizant attacked by Maze ransomware
Late last night, word started circulating that Cognizant had been attacked by Maze Team. Today, the attack was reported by BleepingComputer and confirmed by Cognizant. In a statement on their website, the New Jersey-headquartered multinational corporation writes: Cognizant can confirm that a security incident involving our internal systems, and causing service disruptions for some of…
Everyone’s Working From Home Due to the Coronavirus – Is There Insurance Coverage for a Data Breach?
Jeffrey Dennis and Heather Whitehead of Newmeyer Dillion write: Most organizations are now requiring that their employees work from home (“WFH”) with the ongoing COVID-19 (commonly referred to as the Coronavirus) pandemic. These remote working arrangements provide new opportunities for hackers to infiltrate computer systems, and not surprisingly, attempted cyber attacks are on the rise. …
Hacking against corporations surges as workers take computers home
Joseph Menn reports: Hacking activity against corporations in the United States and other countries more than doubled by some measures last month as digital thieves took advantage of security weakened by pandemic work-from-home policies, researchers said. […] Software and security company VMWare Carbon Black said this week that ransomware attacks it monitored jumped 148% in…
FBI says state hackers have broken into US coronavirus research: report
Fox News reports: Foreign government hackers have broken into companies conducting research into COVID-19 treatment and the U.S. healthcare sector, an FBI official reportedly said. Tonya Ugoretz, the FBI Deputy Assistant Director, told participants in an online panel discussion on Thursday that the bureau has seen state-backed hackers looking at a series of healthcare and research institutions. Read more…