cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2025 23:02:14 +0000

One month into his second term, President Trump’s actions to shrink the government through mass layoffs, firings and withholding funds allocated by Congress have thrown federal cybersecurity and consumer protection programs into disarray. At the same time, agencies are battling an ongoing effort by the world’s richest man to wrest control over their networks and data.

Independent Krebs

March 2, 2025 admin

Trump 2.0 Brings Cuts to Cyber, Consumer Protections

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2025 23:02:14 +0000

Independent Krebs

June 15, 2023 admin

CISA Order Highlights Persistent Risk at Network Edge

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2023 15:40:09 +0000

The U.S. government agency in charge of improving the nation’s cybersecurity posture is ordering all federal civilian agencies to take new measures to restrict access to Internet-exposed networking equipment. The directive comes amid a surge in attacks targeting previously unknown vulnerabilities in widely used security and networking appliances.

MalwareBytes Security

July 10, 2022 admin

North Korean APT targets US healthcare sector with Maui ransomware

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2022 21:43:29 +0000

CISA warns of an unusual ransomware.

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MalwareBytes Security

June 23, 2022 admin

Dial 311 for… cybersecurity emergencies?

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2022 15:51:59 +0000

Cybersecurity experts want a hotline for SMBs to further encourage cyber incident reporting, especially those involving ransomware attacks.

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MalwareBytes Security

June 14, 2022 admin

Karakurt extortion group: Threat profile

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2022 16:00:29 +0000

An obscure group called Karakurt has extorted organizations in the US and elsewhere. Know how to keep it away from your network.

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Independent Krebs

March 17, 2020 admin

U.S. Govt. Makes it Harder to Get .Gov Domains

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2020 15:01:21 +0000

The federal agency in charge of issuing .gov domain names is enacting new requirements for validating the identity of people requesting them. The additional measures come less than four months after KrebsOnSecurity published research suggesting it was relatively easy for just about anyone to get their very own .gov domain. In November’s piece It’s Way Too Easy to Get a .gov Domain Name, an anonymous source detailed how he obtained one by impersonating an official at a small town in Rhode Island that didn’t already have its own .gov.

Independent Krebs

November 26, 2019 admin

It’s Way Too Easy to Get a .gov Domain Name

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 02:08:55 +0000

Many readers probably believe they can trust links and emails coming from U.S. federal government domain names, or else assume there are at least more stringent verification requirements involved in obtaining a .gov domain versus a commercial one ending in .com or .org. But a recent experience suggests this trust may be severely misplaced, and that it is relatively straightforward for anyone to obtain their very own .gov domain.