WCC hit by ransomware attack
The World Council of Churches (WCC) communications systems have been hacked by a ransomware group.
Message to current and former public service employees and members of the Canadian Armed Forces and Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Message to current and former public service employees and members of the Canadian Armed Forces and Royal Canadian Mounted Police
MSI Confirms Breach as Ransomware Gang Claims Responsibility
UPDATE: A new statement(Opens in a new window) from MSI says users should avoid downloading firmware and BIOS updates from third-party sources, and instead only obtain such software from the company's official website. The statement suggests MSI is worried hackers could circulate malicious versions of the company's BIOS software when the ransomware gang, Money Message, claims it stole the PC maker's source code.
Stopping cybercriminals from abusing security tools
Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU), cybersecurity software company Fortra™ and Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Health-ISAC) are taking technical and legal action to disrupt cracked, legacy copies of Cobalt Strike and abused Microsoft software, which have been used by cybercriminals to distribute malware, including ransomware. This is a change in the way DCU has...
France bans all recreational apps from government devices
The government of France has banned TikTok – and all other recreational apps – from phones issued to its employees. The nation's ministère de la transformation et de la fonction publiques last Friday issued a statement PDF announcing the policy, which minister of transformation and public service Stanislas Guerini justified on grounds that no recreational apps have sufficiently robust security for them to be deployed on government-owned devices.
FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Announces National Cybersecurity Strategy
Read the full strategy here Today, the Biden-Harris Administration released the National Cybersecurity Strategy to secure the full benefits of a safe and secure digital ecosystem for all Americans. In this decisive decade, the United States will reimagine cyberspace as a tool to achieve our goals in a way that reflects our values: economic security… PDF document
New Paper on Old Threema Protocol
This is a statement on the NZZ news article from January 9, 2023 about alleged weaknesses in Threema's encryption. But these are completely impractical and theoretical.
MSI Confirms Breach as Ransomware Gang Claims Responsibility
UPDATE: A new statement(Opens in a new window) from MSI says users should avoid downloading firmware and BIOS updates from third-party sources, and instead only obtain such software from the company's official website. The statement suggests MSI is worried hackers could circulate malicious versions of the company's BIOS software when the ransomware gang, Money Message, claims it stole the PC maker's source code.
Stopping cybercriminals from abusing security tools
Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU), cybersecurity software company Fortra™ and Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Health-ISAC) are taking technical and legal action to disrupt cracked, legacy copies of Cobalt Strike and abused Microsoft software, which have been used by cybercriminals to distribute malware, including ransomware. This is a change in the way DCU has...
France bans all recreational apps from government devices
The government of France has banned TikTok – and all other recreational apps – from phones issued to its employees. The nation's ministère de la transformation et de la fonction publiques last Friday issued a statement [PDF](https://www.transformation.gouv.fr/files/presse/cp_interdiction_applications_recreatives_telephone_pro_agents.pdf) announcing the policy, which minister of transformation and public service Stanislas Guerini justified on grounds that no recreational apps have sufficiently robust security for them to be deployed on government-owned devices.
FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Announces National Cybersecurity Strategy
Read the full strategy here Today, the Biden-Harris Administration released the National Cybersecurity Strategy to secure the full benefits of a safe and secure digital ecosystem for all Americans. In this decisive decade, the United States will reimagine cyberspace as a tool to achieve our goals in a way that reflects our values: economic security… [PDF document](https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/National-Cybersecurity-Strategy-2023.pdf)
New Paper on Old Threema Protocol
This is a statement on the NZZ news article from January 9, 2023 about alleged weaknesses in Threema's encryption. But these are completely impractical and theoretical.