FAYETTEVILLE — City employees are doing their best to serve residents without the use of online technology following a cybersecurity incident Thursday. As of Friday afternoon, Information Technology staff and the cybersecurity company the city retains were moving from a containment phase to restoring systems and investigating the cause of the anomaly that prompted the...Read More

A woman went viral on TikTok after sparking debate about whether the $7 kids’ meal hack from Olive Garden is a good deal. The video was uploaded by TikTok user Anna (@annalovescoffee) who typically posts food content. This time, she gave her opinion about the kids’ meal at Olive Garden. In the clip, she unveiled...Read More

Businesses are paying out soaring sums to retrieve their data after hackers encrypt their accounts, according to a report released this week by Verizon Business, the enterprise solutions division of the wireless data network provider. The damage is caused by ransomware, which is malicious software (also known as malware) that encrypts an organization’s data and...Read More

The FBI and Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency this week advised all organizations to implement certain recommendations to defend their networks from the latest tactics by the CLOP ransomware gang, which include using a SQL injection vulnerability in Progress Software’s managed file transfer solution to steal data.    “The CLOP ransomware group poses an advanced threat that...Read More

Fannie Mae continues to step up its security practices, a priority it set almost a decade ago. Speaking at an Amazon Web Services Summit in Washington D.C. Thursday, Chita Elango, senior director of application security at Fannie Mae, said the government-sponsored enterprise will further decentralize security, which will improve risk management practices across the business....Read More

The Department of Justice on Friday unsealed charges against two Russian nationals accused of participating in a 2011 hack of cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox. Authorities said the two Russians, Alexey Bilyuchenko and Aleksandr Verner, were charged with conspiring to launder about $647,000 bitcoins from the Mt. Gox hack. Bilyuchenko is also charged with conspiring with...Read More

Cybersecurity firm Obsidian has observed a successful ransomware attack against Sharepoint Online (Microsoft 365) via a Microsoft Global SaaS admin account rather than the more usual route of a compromised endpoint. The attack was analyzed post-compromise when the victim employed the Obsidian product and research team to determine the finer points of the attack. In...Read More

This week, Nubeva Technologies, which develops decryption tools focused on ransomware, published a case study describing how it was able to help one small hospital untangle a ransomware attack that had affected its IT systems. WHY IT MATTERS Nubeva says its LockBit decrypting tool was able to successfully recover data and restore healthcare operations after unauthorized access...Read More

Since the security market is large and segmented, out-of-the-box approaches are needed to spur more innovations. To integrate security and networking, Cisco Systems Inc. devised a platform that is cloud-based and powered by generative artificial intelligence, called Cisco Security Cloud, according to Jeetu Patel (pictured), executive vice president and general manager of the Security and...Read More

The US federal government has charged two Russian nationals in connection with the series of hacks that brought down the Mt. Gox Bitcoin exchange in 2014. In a press release on Friday, the Department of Justice announced it’s unsealing a 2019 indictment charging (PDF) Alexey Bilyuchenko and Aleksandr Verner with conspiring to launder 647,000 Bitcoins...Read More