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Russian Hackers Made Millions by Stealing SEC Earning Reports A Russian national working for a cybersecurity company has been extradited to the U.S. where he is being charged for hacking into computer networks of two U.S.-based filing agents used by multiple companies to file quarterly and annual earnings through the Securities and Exchange Commissions (SEC)
US Returns $154 Million in Bitcoins Stolen by Sony Employee The United States has taken legal action to seize and return over $154 million purportedly stolen from Sony Life Insurance Company Ltd, a SONY subsidiary, by an employee in a textbook business email compromise (BEC) attack. “According to the government’s complaint, Rei Ishii, an employee
Garrett Walk-through Metal Detectors can be Remotely Manipulated Two widely used walk-through metal detectors made by Garrett are vulnerable to many remotely exploitable flaws that could severely impair their functionality, thus rendering security checkpoints deficient. Garrett is a well-known US-based manufacturer of hand-held and walk-through metal detectors commonly deployed in security-critical environments such as sports
Windows 10 21H2 Adds Ransomware Protection to Security Baseline Microsoft has released the final version of security configuration baseline settings for Windows 10, version 21H2, available today from the Microsoft Security Compliance Toolkit. “This Windows 10 feature update brings very few new policy settings,” Microsoft security consultant Rick Munck said. “One setting has been added