The Evolving Threat of Ransomware — A Call to Action for Cybersecurity Testifying before the House Financial Services Subcommittee on National Security, Illicit Finance and International Financial Institutions on ransomware. The post The Evolving Threat of Ransomware — A Call to Action for Cybersecurity appeared first on Palo Alto Networks Blog . Other Attempts to Take Over Open Source Projects After the XZ Utils discovery, people have been examining other open-source projects. Surprising no one, the incident is not unique: The OpenJS Foundation Cross Project Council received a suspicious series of emails with similar messages, bearing different names and overlapping GitHub-associated emails. These emails implored OpenJS to take action to update one of its popular JavaScript projects to “address any critical vulnerabilities,” yet cited no specifics. The email author(s) wanted OpenJS t… |
Who Stole 3.6M Tax Records from South Carolina? For nearly a dozen years, residents of South Carolina have been kept in the dark by state and federal investigators over who was responsible for hacking into the state's revenue department in 2012 and stealing tax and bank account information for 3.6 million people. The answer may no longer be a mystery: KrebsOnSecurity found compelling clues suggesting the intrusion was carried out by the same R… |