SoS Musings #51 - The Vulnerability of the Maritime Industry to Cyberattacks  

Florida's Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO) revealed that it had sustained a data breach that targeted its unemployment benefits system affecting over 57,920 claimant accounts.  The security incident involved user accounts in the Reemployment…

According to Zimbra’s site, its email and collaboration tools are used by over 200,000 businesses, over a thousand government and financial institutions, and hundreds of millions of users to exchange emails every day.  Researchers at SonarSource…

Army researchers have developed a new machine learning-based framework to improve the security of vehicles' computer networks without weakening performance. This development supports a larger Army effort to invest in more advanced cybersecurity…

Apple has released iOS 14.7.1, iPad iOS 14.7.1, and macOS Big Sur 11.5.1 to address a zero-day flaw that seems to have been actively exploited. According to Apple, the flaw, tagged as CVE-2021-30807, could allow threat actors to execute arbitrary code…

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Researchers at Fugue and Sonatype surveyed 300 cloud pros, including cloud engineers, security engineers, DevOps, and architects.  The researchers found that 36% of organizations suffered a serious cloud security data leak or a breach in the past 12…

The tides may be starting to turn on the ransomware epidemic, new industry findings show. According to researchers at Coveware, the average ransomware payment declined to $136,576 in the second quarter of 2021. The 38% decrease is a dramatic drop from…

New research from Copenhagen Business School finds that the designers of cookie banners can impact users' privacy choices through the manipulation of the choice architecture. Simple changes can increase absolute consent by 17 percent. A website cookie…

Researchers at the cybersecurity firm Sophos analyzed over 1,800 malicious files on Discord's Content Distribution Network (CDN) that were detected by the company's telemetry. According to Sophos, the number of URLs hosting malware on the collaboration…