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  • "Cisco Patches Critical Vulnerability in Contact Center Products"

    Cisco on Wednesday announced patches for a critical vulnerability in Unified Contact Center Management Portal (Unified CCMP) and Unified Contact Center Domain Manager (Unified CCDM).  Tracked as CVE-2022-20658 (CVSS score of 9.6), the issue exists…

  • "Cyber-Thieves Raid Grass Valley"

    A cyberattack on a city in California has resulted in the exfiltration of personal and financial data belonging to vendors, city employees, and their spouses.  A notice published by Grass Valley states that an unknown attacker was able to access…

  • "Hackers Hit Healthcare Data Management Company"

    The protected health information (PHI) of thousands of individuals may have been exposed in a hacking incident at a healthcare information management company based in Georgia.  Ciox Health, headquartered in Alpharetta, provides various services,…

  • "KCodes NetUSB Kernel Remote Code Execution Flaw Impacts Millions of Devices"

    Researchers at the cybersecurity firm SentinelOne have shared findings from their analysis of a flaw in the KCodes NetUSB kernel module that puts millions of end-user router devices from Netgear, TP-Link, Tenda, EDIMAX, D-Link, Western Digital, and more…

  • "Industrial Firms Advised Not to Ignore Security Risks Posed by URL Parsing Confusion"

    A team of researchers from the industrial cybersecurity firm Claroty and the developer security company Snyk analyzed 16 URL parsing libraries. Findings from the analysis further highlighted how inconsistencies could lead to different types of…

  • "Fully Undetected SysJoker Backdoor Malware Targets Windows, Linux & macOS"

    Security researchers at Intezer have discovered a new malware dubbed SysJoker. The brand-new multiplatform malware, likely distributed via malicious npm packages, is spreading under the radar, with Linux and Mac versions going fully undetected in…

  • "Microsoft: macOS 'Powerdir' Flaw Could Let Attackers Gain Access to User Data"

    Microsoft has disclosed a vulnerability found in Apple's macOS that could allow an attacker to gain unauthorized access to protected user data by circumventing the operating system's Transparency, Consent, and Control (TCC) technology. After the…

  • "Corporate Cyberattacks Spike 50% in 2021"

    Researchers at Check Point have found that global weekly cyberattacks hit an all-time high in Q4 2021 of 925 attempts per organization.  The researchers analyzed information collected by hundreds of millions of global sensors from Check Point's…

  • "Seeking a Way of Preventing Audio Models for AI Machine Learning From Being Fooled"

    Researchers at the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country have proven that the distortion metrics, used to detect whether an audio perturbation designed to fool Artificial Intelligence (AI) models, are not a reliable measure of human perception. Such…

  • "How Cybercriminals Turn Paper Checks Stolen from Mailboxes into Bitcoin"

    David Maimon, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Georgia State University and the Evidence-Based Cybersecurity Research group he directs, explored 60 black market communication channels on the Internet to gain more insight into the online fraud…

  • "FBI: Cybercriminals Are Mailing Out USB Drives That Install Ransomware"

    The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is warning of a cybercrime group that has been mailing out USB thumb drives in an effort to spread ransomware. The USB drives, sent in the mail through the US Postal Service and United Parcel Service, contain '…

  • "Cyberattack on New Mexico County"

    A cyberattack has forced the government of New Mexico’s most populous county to close most of its county buildings to the public.  Bernalillo County had to take some of its IT systems offline after becoming the target of a digital assault that…