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Australian Population Counting Faces consistent Cyber Threats

CyberSecurity Insiders

Australian Bureau of Statistics has made an official confirmation that it has defended its IT infrastructure from over a billion cyber-attacks. The post Australian Population Counting Faces consistent Cyber Threats appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Foreign cyber threats to the 2020 US presidential election

Digital Shadows

In 2016, Russian nation-state-linked threat actors infamously compromised the Democratic National Convention (DNC), wedging a divide in the political party. The post Foreign cyber threats to the 2020 US presidential election first appeared on Digital Shadows.

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FireEye Hacked

Schneier on Security

These tools mimic the behavior of many cyber threat actors and enable FireEye to provide essential diagnostic security services to our customers. None of the tools contain zero-day exploits. If we discover that customer information was taken, we will contact them directly. That group dumped the N.S.A.’s operator put it.

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What Is the Cyber Threat to Sports?

SecureWorld News

An overwhelming number of cyber threats. The larger schemes tend to include nation-state involvement: "The most high profile attacks were conducted by Russian Military Intelligence (GRU) against the World Anti-Doping Agency, in August 2016. 5 cyber mitigation practices for sports organizations. Among them?

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10 Lessons Learned from the Top Cyber Threats of 2021

Security Boulevard

In March 2021, Microsoft released several updates to patch zero day vulnerabilities found in Microsoft Exchange Server affecting versions 2010, 2013, 2016 and 2019 [2]. The post 10 Lessons Learned from the Top Cyber Threats of 2021 appeared first on Security Boulevard. Vulnerability Type. CVSS Score. CVE-2021-26885.

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Microsoft Patches Six Zero-Day Security Holes

Krebs on Security

Kevin Breen , director of cyber threat research at Immersive Labs , said elevation of privilege flaws are just as valuable to attackers as remote code execution bugs: Once the attacker has gained an initial foothold, he can move laterally across the network and uncover further ways to escalate to system or domain-level access.

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The Unsexy Threat to Election Security

Krebs on Security

The report notes that concerns about the security of these channels is hardly theoretical: In 2010, intruders hijacked ACRE’s election results Web page, and in 2016, cyber thieves successfully breached several county employee email accounts in a spear-phishing attack.

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