Drug Testing Lab Portal Incident Exposed Data for 4 Years

Marianne Kolbasuk McGee • January 25, 2022

SLC Lab, a Florida county laboratory that performs drug testing, is notifying thousands of individuals of a web portal misconfiguration incident that left sensitive information accessible to others for more than four years. How can other entities avoid such incidents?

3rd Party Risk Management

HHS Issues Trusted Health Data Exchange Governance Framework

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Business Continuity Management / Disaster Recovery

Ransomware Trends: Volume of Known Victims Remains Steady

Mathew J. Schwartz • January 26, 2022

Despite Western governments' increased focus on disrupting ransomware, the quantity of new victims doesn't appear to have declined, at least so far. But multiple experts say that nation-state efforts to combat cybercrime syndicates are still picking up speed and may well yet have an impact.

Business Continuity Management / Disaster Recovery

US, NATO Discuss Ukrainian Cyber Aid Amid Tensions

Dan Gunderman • January 25, 2022

As tensions continue to flare between Ukraine and Russia, which has amassed at least 100,000 troops along Ukraine's eastern border, the U.S. continues to mull intervention, a part of which includes bolstering Ukraine's cyber defenses. This comes as experts warn that cyberwarfare could play an increasingly significant...

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Log4j Updates: Flaw Challenges Global Security Leaders

Devon Warren-Kachelein • January 25, 2022

The security world continues its fight against potential widespread exploitation of the critical remote code execution vulnerability - tracked as CVE-2021-44229 - in Apache's Log4j software library, versions 2.0-beta9 to 2.14.1, known as "Log4Shell" and "Logjam." This is a digest of ISMG's updates.

Business Continuity Management / Disaster Recovery

Brand Narratives and Awareness in Cybersecurity

Steve King • January 25, 2022

Kyle Flaherty has worked with a range of companies, changing the worlds of big data, IoT, BYOD, SaaS, open-source software, network security, fraud detection, data analytics, marketing automation and network management. He weighs in on brands and how metrics feed different audiences.

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The Ransomware Files, Episode 4: Maersk and NotPetya

Jeremy Kirk • January 25, 2022

Maersk was one of dozens of organizations crippled by the NotPetya malware in June 2017. Gavin Ashton and Bharat Halai worked in identity and access management at Maersk and share how the company's technology team tirelessly brought the company back from the brink of an IT systems meltdown.

Business Continuity Management / Disaster Recovery

Report: DHS Fears Russian Cyberattack If US Acts on Ukraine

Dan Gunderman • January 24, 2022

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is reportedly warning that the U.S. could witness a retaliatory cyberattack at the hands of Russia if it decides to respond to the latter's potential invasion of Ukraine, where 100,000 or more troops have been amassed for weeks.

Application Security

FBI Warns of Cybercriminals Using QR Codes to Steal Funds

Mihir Bagwe • January 24, 2022

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has issued a warning to consumers about cybercriminals targeting people through maliciously crafted quick response - or QR - codes that direct them to links where their credentials and financial information are siphoned off.

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Microsoft Finds SolarWinds Vulnerability Amid Log4j Search

Dan Gunderman • January 24, 2022

Microsoft researchers tracking Apache Log4j exploits last week discovered a previously undisclosed vulnerability in SolarWinds' Serv-U software. SolarWinds subsequently responded, investigated and fixed the flaw. Some observers described the new vulnerability as "surprising" and "disturbing."

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Suspected REvil Ransomware Spinoff 'Ransom Cartel' Debuts

Mathew J. Schwartz • January 24, 2022

Has the notorious REvil, aka Sodinokibi, ransomware operation rebooted as "Ransom Cartel"? Security experts say the new group has technical and other crossovers with REvil. But whether the new group is a spinoff of REvil, bought the tools, or is simply copying how they work, remains unclear.

Application Security

Twitter: Head of Security Reportedly Fired; CISO to Leave

Prajeet Nair • January 22, 2022

Twitter has said it is firing Peiter "Mudge" Zatko, the network security expert it hired in November 2020 as head of security. The security team changes - the CISO is also set to depart - follow "an assessment of how the organization was being led," according to a corporate memo shared with The New York Times.

Application Security

ISMG Editors: Will Ransomware Kill Cyber Insurance?

Anna Delaney • January 21, 2022

In the latest weekly update, four ISMG editors discuss the state of cyber insurance today and why its future is uncertain; applying a security-by-design reliability model to analyze vulnerabilities; and how Russia takes down members of the REvil ransomware group as cyber aggressions in Ukraine rise.

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From the Trenches: Remediating Widespread Apache Log4j Flaw

Mathew J. Schwartz • January 21, 2022

Although flaws in Apache Log4j software that need remediating remain widespread in organizations, "some of them are aware of the issue, some of them aren't aware of the issue, and likely this issue is going to be persisting with us for many, many years," says Jeff Macko, an offensive security expert at Kroll.