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Russia-linked hackers attack Japan’s goverment, ports

Two Russian hacking groups leveled distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks at Japanese logistics and shipbuilding firms — as well as government and political organizations — in what experts believe are attempts to pressure the Japanese government. The attacks came after lawmakers boosted the nation’s defense budget, and its military conducted exercises with regional allies. The two pro-Russian […]

Real-time crime center helps Glendale (Ariz.) police ‘do more with less,’ chief says

Real-time crime center technology integrated with other resources can help improve public-safety agencies improve efficiency while enhancing the safety of citizens and first responders, according to Glendale (Ariz.) Police Department Chief Chris Briggs. Brigg said the Glendale Police Department has been operating its real-time crime center (RTCC) since 2018, when the center primarily received and […]

CISA adds SolarWinds flaw to exploited vulnerabilities catalog

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency added a critical hardcoded credentials flaw in SolarWinds Web Help Desk to its known exploited vulnerabilities catalog on Tuesday, marking the second actively exploited CVE in the same product since August. The vulnerability, listed as CVE-2024-28987, allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to access internal functionality and potentially modify data. The software defect […]

Telecom glory days are over – bad news for Nokia, worse for Ericsson

Ericsson, Nokia and other network product vendors may have felt the lurching sensation of weightlessness experienced by people on big-drop fairground rides when they saw the graph from Tefficient, an analytics company, plotting mobile data traffic for Elisa, Finland’s biggest mobile operator. Since the first quarter of 2017, traffic levels have steadily climbed, soon recovering after […]

Microsoft reveals ransomware attacks against its customers nearly tripled last year

Microsoft customers confronted nearly triple the amount of ransomware attacks during the one-year period ending in June, the company said Tuesday in its Digital Defense Report. Microsoft observed a 275% year-over-year increase in human-operated ransomware attacks between July 2023 and June 2024. This increase in ransomware attacks was partially offset by a sustained decrease in cyberattacks reaching the encryption stage, the report found. “The […]

Security Operations Center (SOC) teams: Threat-detection tools are stifling us

Security operations center (SOC) practitioners are struggling, thanks to an overwhelming volume of false alarms from their security tools. A Vectra survey of hundreds of cybersecurity professionals revealed a serious gripe that SOC teams have with their software vendors. The overwhelming volume of false positives their tools yield is causing burnout, they say, and allowing real threats […]
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