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Patch Tuesday, June 2024 “Recall” Edition

June 11, 2024 admin adam barnett, copilot, cve-2004-30080, cve-2024-30078, immersive labs, kevin beaumont, kevin breen, Mastodon, microsoft message queuing, microsoft patch tuesday june 2024, Patrick Gray, Rapid7, Recall, Risky Business podcast, Time to Patch, windows, windows wifi driver

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2024 22:57:35 +0000

Microsoft today released updates to fix more than 50 security vulnerabilities in Windows and related software, a relatively light Patch Tuesday this month for Windows administrators. The software giant also responded to a torrent of negative feedback on a new feature of Redmond’s flagship operating system that constantly takes screenshots of whatever users are doing on their computers, saying the feature would no longer be enabled by default.

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Who is Alleged Medibank Hacker Aleksandr Ermakov?

January 26, 2024 admin ae.ermak@yandex.ru, aleksandr ermakov, Breadcrumbs, gustavedore, jimjones, medibank breach, mikhail borisovich shefel, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Patrick Gray, rEvil, Risky Business podcast, shtazi

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2024 18:12:09 +0000

Authorities in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States this week levied financial sanctions against a Russian man accused of stealing data on nearly 10 million customers of the Australian health insurance giant Medibank. 33-year-old Aleksandr Ermakov allegedly stole and leaked the Medibank data while working with one of Russia’s most destructive ransomware groups, but little more is shared about the accused. Here’s a closer look at the activities of Mr. Ermakov’s alleged hacker handles.

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CISA Order Highlights Persistent Risk at Network Edge

June 15, 2023 admin adam boileau, barracuda networks, cisa, cve-2023-27997, cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency, fortinet, fortra, goanywhere, Latest Warnings, Mandiant, moveit transfer, Patrick Gray, progress software, Risky Business podcast, The Coming Storm, Time to Patch

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.

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How the U.S. Govt. Shutdown Harms Security

January 23, 2019 admin Alex Stamos, Brian Fung, Christopher Burgess, FBI Agents Association, FBIAA, Patrick Gray, Risky Business podcast, The Coming Storm, US Government Shutdown

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 17:51:22 +0000

The ongoing partial U.S. federal government shutdown is having a tangible, negative impact on cybercrime investigations, according to interviews with federal law enforcement investigators and a report issued this week by a group representing the interests of FBI agents. Even if lawmakers move forward on new proposals to reopen the government, sources say the standoff is likely have serious repercussions for federal law enforcement agencies for years to come. One federal agent with more than 20 years on the job told KrebsOnSecurity that the shutdown “is crushing our ability to take the fight to cyber criminals.”