05 Apr 2024
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 4/4/2024

Missouri county declares state of emergency amid suspected ransomware attack  Jackson County, Missouri, has declared a state of emergency and closed key offices indefinitely as it responds to what officials believe is a ransomware attack that has made some of its IT systems inoperable. "Jackson County has identified significant disruptions within its IT systems, potentially attributable to a ransomware attack," officials wrote Tuesday. "Early indications suggest operational inconsistencies across its digital infrastructure and certain systems have been…
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27 May 2021
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 05/27/2021

1 - Bitdefender’s Position on Ransomware Attacks and Decryptors This week Bitdefender was named in a press article regarding our decision to release a free decryptor in January 2021 to help those affected by Darkside ransomware. The authors of the article assert that publicly releasing a ransomware decryptor enables malicious actors to modify their methods to evade future decryption, thus increasing the risk of successful future attacks. This assertion is flawed from a common sense…
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08 Apr 2021
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 04/08/2021

Crooks are getting smarter about exploiting SAP software, study finds Security researchers on Tuesday warned of the unrelenting interest that cybercriminals have in exploiting applications made by software giant SAP to defraud or disrupt big businesses that rely on SAP products. A months-long study by Boston-based security firm Onapsis found that malicious hackers are growing more knowledgeable of SAP software and the potential impact that compromises could have on customers. In one case, an unidentified attacker…
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15 Mar 2021
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 03/15/2021

Former Facebook insiders explain why the company is making such a big fuss over Apple’s upcoming privacy change For the past few weeks, Facebook has been running an ad campaign in defense of personalized advertisements, arguing that targeted ads are key to the success of small businesses. The catalyst for the campaign has been an ongoing battle between the social media company and Apple. The battle focuses on a unique device identifier on every iPhone and iPad called the IDFA.…
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04 Nov 2020
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 11/04/2020

MIT researchers develop an AI model that can detect Covid-19 in asymptomatic individuals Though global economies have begun to open up, the Covid-19 virus is still spreading throughout the world, infecting thousands of new people every day. To help curb the spread of the disease, MIT researchers have developed an AI model that can detect the virus' presence in even asymptomatic individuals. The potential good that such a model could do is probably pretty obvious.…
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15 Oct 2020
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 10/15/2020

DuckDuckGo, EFF, and others just launched privacy settings for the whole internet A group of tech companies, publishers, and activist groups including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Mozilla, and DuckDuckGo are backing a new standard to let internet users set their privacy settings for the entire web. “Before today, if you want to exercise your privacy rights, you have to go from website to website and change all your settings,” says Gabriel Weinberg, CEO of DuckDuckGo, the…
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