Tag: office
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NAO: UK government cyber resilience weak in face of mounting threats
The National Audit Office has found UK government cyber resilience wanting, weakened by legacy IT and skills shortages, and facing mounting threats First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366618552/NAO-UK-government-cyber-resilience-weak-in-face-of-mounting-threats
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Our Digital Footprints are Breadcrumbs for Mapping our Personal Behavior
The Government Accountability Office states that customers are usually unaware of the potential privacy risks and biases that arise from use of personal information. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/01/our-digital-footprints-are-breadcrumbs-for-mapping-our-personal-behavior/
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Scores of Critical UK Government IT Systems Have Major Security Holes
The National Audit Office warns of major gaps in cyber resilience across UK government departments First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/scores-critical-government-it/
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Threat of cyber-attacks on Whitehall ‘is severe and advancing quickly’, NAO says
Audit watchdog finds 58 critical IT systems assessed in 2024 had ‘significant gaps in cyber-resilience’The threat of potentially devastating cyber-attacks against UK government departments is “severe and advancing quickly”, with dozens of critical IT systems vulnerable to an expected regular pattern of significant strikes, ministers have been warned.The National Audit Office (NAO) found that 58…
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Lawsuit claims systems behind OPM governmentwide email blast are illegal, insecure
A pair of whistleblowers believe the office skirted the law by not conducting a privacy impact assessment for an alleged “on-prem” server used to send mass emails to federal employees and store information from responses. First seen on fedscoop.com Jump to article: fedscoop.com/opm-email-federal-workforce-lawsuit-server-privacy-security/
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Fernzugriff via Remote-Desktop-Protocol optimieren Weg vom Browser-Modell
Das Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ist für viele Unternehmen ein unverzichtbares Werkzeug geworden, insbesondere in Zeiten hybrider Arbeitsmodelle und des Fernzugriffs. Es ermöglicht den Zugriff auf Anwendungen und Office-Systeme, egal ob Mitarbeiter von zu Hause oder unterwegs arbeiten. Doch so nützlich RDP auch ist, bringt es Herausforderungen mit sich, die sowohl die Produktivität der Nutzer…
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UK eVisa system problems persist despite repeated warnings
Tags: officeTravellers are already having issues boarding UK-bound flights, while refugees have been left with no way to prove their immigration status in the UK, just two weeks after the Home Office transitioned to electronic visas First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366618163/UK-eVisa-system-problems-persist-despite-repeated-warnings
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Trump Has Had a Light Touch on Cybersecurity So Far
President Trump has made sweeping changes in his first days in office, but as of yet, he’s kept intact much of the government’s cybersecurity structure and policies, including the two executives orders President Biden issued at the beginning and end of his term. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/01/trump-has-had-a-light-touch-on-cybersecurity-so-far/
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10 top XDR tools and how to evaluate them
Tags: ai, attack, automation, business, cloud, computing, container, corporate, credentials, data, defense, detection, edr, email, encryption, endpoint, finance, firewall, google, guide, Hardware, iam, ibm, identity, incident response, infrastructure, intelligence, malicious, malware, marketplace, microsoft, mitigation, network, office, okta, open-source, organized, risk, security-incident, service, siem, skills, soar, software, spam, technology, threat, tool, training, vulnerability, zero-dayLittle in the modern IT world lends itself to manual or siloed management, and this is doubly true in the security realm. The scale of modern enterprise computing and modern application stack architecture requires security tools that can bring visibility into the security posture of modern IT components and integrate tightly to bring real-time threat…
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Two ransomware groups abuse Microsoft’s Office 365 platform to gain access to target organizations
Two ransomware groups exploiting Microsoft 365 services and default settings to target internal enterprise users. Sophos researchers started investigating two distinct clusters of activity, tracked as STAC5143 and STAC5777, in response to customer ransomware attacks in November and December 2024. Threat actors used their own Microsoft 365 tenants and exploited a default Teams setting allowing…
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Doti AI Raises $7 Million Seed Funding for Instant Access to Internal Company Data
Doti’s platform uses AI to improve, automate, and streamline standard office and business processes across distributed and hybrid environments. The post Doti AI Raises $7 Million Seed Funding for Instant Access to Internal Company Data appeared first on SecurityWeek. First seen on securityweek.com Jump to article: www.securityweek.com/doti-ai-raises-7-million-seed-funding-for-instant-access-to-internal-company-data/
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Doti AI Raises £7 Million Seed Funding for Instant Access to Internal Company Data
Doti’s platform uses AI to improve, automate, and streamline standard office and business processes across distributed and hybrid environments. The post Doti AI Raises £7 Million Seed Funding for Instant Access to Internal Company Data appeared first on SecurityWeek. First seen on securityweek.com Jump to article: www.securityweek.com/doti-ai-raises-7-million-seed-funding-for-instant-access-to-internal-company-data/
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Gezielte Cyberangriffe: Bedrohungsakteure missbrauchen Microsoft 365
Sophos X-Ops hat eine raffinierte Angriffskampagne entdeckt, bei der Cyberkriminelle gezielt Unternehmen infiltrieren. Dabei nutzen sie Schwachstellen innerhalb der Office-365-Plattform aus, um entweder sensible Daten zu stehlen oder Ransomware zu platzieren. First seen on it-daily.net Jump to article: www.it-daily.net/it-sicherheit/cybercrime/gezielte-cyberangriffe-bedrohungsakteure-missbrauchen-microsoft-365
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Trump Frees Silk Road Founder From Life in Federal Prison
President Fulfills Campaign Promise to Pardon ‘Dread Pirate Roberts,’ Blames DOJ Abuse. On his second day in office, U.S. President Donald Trump pardoned Ross Ulbricht, founder of Silk Road, an online marketplace tied to over $200 million in illegal bitcoin transactions. Ulbricht has been in federal prison since 2015, sentenced to life with no possibility…
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Treasury Department issues sanctions linked to cyber intrusions, telecom attacks
The Office of Foreign Assets Control took measures against a state-linked hacker and a Shanghai-based cybersecurity firm in response to the recent attacks against critical infrastructure in the U.S. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/treasury-sanctions-linked-cyber-telecom-china/737842/
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Cyberkriminelle missbrauchen Microsoft-Teams als Einfallstor mit E-Mail-Bombing und Voice-Phishing
Sophos-X-Ops hat eine aktive Bedrohungskampagne näher untersucht, bei der zwei verschiedene Gruppen von Bedrohungsakteuren Unternehmen infiltrieren, indem sie die Funktionalität der Office-365-Plattform missbrauchen und anschließend versuchen, Daten abzuziehen oder Ransomware platzieren. Besonders perfide: die Angreifer verwenden eine Kombination aus E-Mail-Bombing mit bis zu 3.000 Nachrichten in weniger als einer Stunde und anschließenden Sprach- bzw. Videoanrufen…
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Russian ransomware hackers increasingly posing as tech support on Microsoft Teams
Researchers at Sophos say they have seen more than 15 incidents in which two separate groups used Microsoft Office 365’s default service settings to socially engineer their way onto a victim’s system.]]> First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/fake-tech-support-russian-hackers-microsoft-teams
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Fiese Masche: 3.000 Emails und ein >>rettender<< Support-Anruf via Teams
Sophos X-Ops hat eine aktive Bedrohungskampagne näher untersucht, bei der zwei verschiedene Gruppen von Bedrohungsakteuren Unternehmen infiltrieren, indem sie die Funktionalität der Office-365-Plattform missbrauchen und anschließend versuchen, Daten abziehen oder Ransomware platzieren. Besonders perfide: die Angreifer verwenden eine Kombination aus E-Mail-Bombing mit bis zu 3.000 Nachrichten in weniger als einer Stunde und anschließenden Sprach- bzw.…
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Wie sich Cybersecurity mit KI im Jahr 2025 weiterentwickelt
Kürzlich veröffentlichte Google Cloud seinen Cybersecurity Forecast für das Jahr 2025 [1]. Der Bericht enthält zukunftsweisende Erkenntnisse mehrerer führender Sicherheitsverantwortlicher von Google Cloud darunter Google Threat Intelligence, Mandiant Consulting und das Office of the CISO von Google Cloud. Sie beschreiben unter anderem, wie die nächste Phase der künstlichen Intelligenz (KI) sowohl für Angreifer als… First…
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U.S. Sanctions Chinese Cyber Actors Behind Treasury Breach and Salt Typhoon Attacks
Tags: attack, breach, china, control, cyber, cybersecurity, government, hacker, network, office, technology, threatThe U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued sanctions against two entities linked to major cyber activities targeting U.S. national security. The sanctions target Yin Kecheng, a Shanghai-based cyber actor involved in a recent compromise of Treasury Department networks, and Sichuan Juxinhe Network Technology Co., LTD., a cybersecurity company connected…
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U.S. Sanctions Chinese Cybersecurity Firm Over Treasury Hack Tied to Salt Typhoon
The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has imposed sanctions against a Chinese cybersecurity company and a Shanghai-based cyber actor for their alleged links to the Salt Typhoon group and the recent compromise of the federal agency.”People’s Republic of China-linked (PRC) malicious cyber actors continue to target U.S. government systems, including the…
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U.S. Treasury Sanctions Chinese cybersecurity firm and actor over federal agency breach tied to Salt Typhoon
The U.S. Treasury’s OFAC sanctioned a Chinese cybersecurity firm and a Shanghai cyber actor for ties to Salt Typhoon and a federal agency breach. The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Chinese firm Sichuan Juxinhe Network Technology Co., LTD., for its involvement in the activities of the Salt Typhoon APT group,…
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U.S. Sanctions Chinese Cybersecurity Firm Over Treasury Hack Tied to Silk Typhoon
The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has imposed sanctions against a Chinese cybersecurity company and a Shanghai-based cyber actor for their alleged links to the Salt Typhoon group and the recent compromise of the federal agency.”People’s Republic of China-linked (PRC) malicious cyber actors continue to target U.S. government systems, including the…
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US hits back against China’s Salt Typhoon group
Tags: attack, backdoor, china, cisa, ciso, communications, computer, control, crypto, cve, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, defense, detection, disinformation, espionage, exploit, finance, government, group, infosec, infrastructure, intelligence, ivanti, law, malicious, mandiant, microsoft, network, north-korea, office, tactics, technology, theft, threat, tool, vpn, vulnerabilityThe US is hitting back against the threat group, dubbed Salt Typhoon by Microsoft, which is allegedly behind recent cyber attacks against American telecommunications providers, as part of a wider campaign against Chinese-based hacking.On Friday the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said it is sanctioning Sichuan Juxinhe Network Technology, a…
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Microsoft ends support for Office apps on Windows 10 in October
Microsoft says it will drop support for Office apps in Windows 10 after the operating system reaches its end of support on October 14. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-ends-support-for-office-apps-on-windows-10-in-october/
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CISA unveils ‘Secure by Demand’ guidelines to bolster OT security
Tags: attack, authentication, breach, ceo, cisa, compliance, cyber, cybersecurity, encryption, flaw, framework, infrastructure, international, network, office, resilience, risk, service, software, strategy, technology, threat, update, vulnerabilityThe US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), along with its international cybersecurity allies, has unveiled the “Secure by Demand” guidelines to safeguard operational technology (OT) environments. The framework provides a blueprint for OT owners and operators to prioritize cybersecurity when procuring digital products.This initiative addresses growing concerns about vulnerabilities in critical infrastructure, including energy…