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Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 30th of April 2021 11:00:08 AM Filed under
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  • Task Force Seeks to Disrupt Ransomware Payments
  • Daniel Stenberg: fixed vulnerabilities were once created

    In the curl project we make great efforts to store a lot of meta data about each and every vulnerability that we have fixed over the years – and curl is over 23 years old. This data set includes CVE id, first vulnerable version, last vulnerable version, name, announce date, report to the project date, CWE, reward amount, code area and “C mistake kind”.

    We also keep detailed data about releases, making it easy to look up for example release dates for specific versions.

  • Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 173 released

    The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version 173.

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  • Five U.S. Agencies May Have Been Hacked Through Ivanti Flaws [iophk: Windows TCO]

                     

                       

    “CISA is aware of at least five federal civilian agencies who have run the Pulse Connect Secure Integrity Tool and identified indications of potential unauthorized access,” Matt Hartman, a deputy executive assistant director at CISA, said Thursday in a statement. “We are working with each agency to validate whether an intrusion has occurred and will offer incident response support accordingly.”

                       

    Hartman didn’t identify the agencies. Reuters previously reported the suspected breaches in federal agencies.

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  • Biden Order Will Require New Cybersecuriety Standards In Response To SolarWinds Attack [iophk: Windows TCO]

                     

                       

    The order, which is still being drafted, lays out a series of new requirements for companies that do business with the government. The initiative includes plans for more systematic investigations of cyber events and standards for software development. The idea is to use the federal contracting process to force changes that will eventually trickle down to the rest of the private sector.

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  • Biden prepping cybersecurity executive order in response to SolarWinds attack [iophk: Windows TCO]

                     

                       

    The SolarWinds attack, believed to be perpetrated by Russian [crackers], was discovered last year. The [attackers] exploited software from the IT group SolarWinds, which helped them gain access to as many as 18,000 customers. A smaller number of the customers' systems, however, were compromised by follow-on activity.

                       

    As a result, nine federal agencies and 100 private-sector groups were compromised during the months-long operation.

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  • The ransomware surge ruining lives [iophk: Windows TCO]

                     

                       

    Microsoft, Amazon, the FBI and the UK's National Crime Agency have joined the Ransomware Task Force (RTF) in giving governments nearly 50 recommendations.

                       

    Ransomware gangs are now routinely targeting schools and hospitals.

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  • Ransomware explained: No silver bullet, out-of-reach crooks [iophk: Windows TCO]

                     

                       

    Stricken in the United States alone last year were more than 100 federal, state and municipal agencies, upwards of 500 health care centers, 1,680 educational institutions and untold thousands of businesses, according to the cybersecurity firm Emsisoft. Dollar losses are in the tens of billions. Accurate numbers are elusive. Many victims shun reporting, fearing the reputational blight.

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  • More than 70 firms received CIA malware samples in 2019: Kaspersky sec chief [iophk: Windows TCO]

                     

                       

    The head of security firm Kaspersky's Global Research and Analysis Team, Costin Raiu, says in 2019 more than 70 security companies were given samples of malware that was created by the CIA.

  • AG Raoul’s office hit by ransomware attack

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  • TBONE: for public release on 2021-04-28

                     

                       

    “Looking at the fact TBONE required no user interaction, and ease of delivery of the payload to parked cars, we felt this attack was ‘wormable’ and could have been weaponized”, says Kunnamon CEO Ralf-Philipp Weinmann. “Adding a privilege escalation exploit such as CVE-2021-3347 to TBONE would allow us to load new Wi-Fi firmware in the Tesla car, turning it into an access point which could be used to exploit other Tesla cars that come into the victim car’s proximity. We did not want to weaponize this exploit into a worm, however.”

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  • Court Could Consider Whether Trump Interfered in Cloud Computing Contract

                     

                       

    A federal court said on Wednesday that it did not dismiss the possibility that former President Donald J. Trump interfered in the awarding of a military cloud-computing contract worth $10 billion, a decision that could result in the overhaul of a long-running effort to modernize technology at the Defense Department.

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