Cybersecurity teams are using scoring systems, standard formats and other tactics to prioritize the deluge of alerts they're receiving about commonly used programs.
The Biden administration and Congress are mobilizing to confront ransomware attacks on critical organizations such as schools and hospitals, which some officials have labeled a national security threat.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Department of Justice and Capitol Hill are all spearheading efforts to get a handle on ransomware attacks, which have skyrocketed during the COVID-19 pandemic as cyber criminals targeted vulnerable networks that came under increased strain.
“The threat is real. The threat is upon us. The risk is to all of us,” DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas
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Ransomware attacks have increasingly posed a threat to critical services over the past year. Hospital systems across the country have been hit, along with school districts in Baltimore County, Md., and Fairfax County, Va., among many others.
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Horton s message was a response to a previous post, the intact original of which is now lost to history, from one sdcarl!rusty, aka Rusty Wright. With this incomplete fragment of a cryptic exchange, the history of Usenet, as we have it today, begins.
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The message is the oldest Usenet posting in the 20-year archive, now searchable on Google. It s the first of some 700 million posts that provide a record spanning the early history to the present of Usenet the sprawling public bulletin board, composed of a vast hierarchy of newsgroups, that grew up alongside the Internet itself.
Sophos Named Common Vulnerability and Exposure Numbering Authority Sophos
Sophos has been named a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) Numbering Authority (CNA) in the CVE program. CVE is a recognized international standard for identifying and naming cybersecurity vulnerabilities. With this status, Sophos is authorized to assign CVE identification to unique vulnerabilities within the scope of its products. Security researchers can now work directly with Sophos to open CVEs for the company’s products, making the process of reporting issues and assigning CVEs more straightforward.
The CVE program is an international, community-based effort that maintains a community-driven, open data registry of vulnerabilities. The program catalogs CVEs in a publicly available registry that is available to security researchers, vulnerability disclosers and information technology vendors. Using a common identifier makes it easier to share and cross-check data across the industry
The CVE programme is an international, community-based effort that maintains a community-driven, open data registry of vulnerabilities. The programme catalogues CVEs in a publicly available registry that is available to security researchers, vulnerability discloses, and information technology vendors. Using a common identifier makes it easier to share and cross-check data across the industry’s several and separate security databases and tools that track vulnerabilities.
“Sophos’ new status as a CNA is another example of our commitment to being transparent, and by having the ability to assign CVEs, we can provide the industry with pertinent information about our products faster. This allows organizations to more quickly assess security issues, determine the scale of urgency, and prioritize updates,” said Ross McKerchar, Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Sophos. “Sophos’ CVEs will also get entered into the multiple CVE-compatible databases wit