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David Plummer is a retired Microsoft operating systems engineer, “going back to the MS-DOS and Windows 95 days.” (He adds that in the early ’90s he’d fixed a few handle leaks in the early source code of Linux, “and sent my changes off to Linus at Rutgers.”)

Zscaler Says it Prevented Over 2,500 Phishing Attacks Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • March 7, 2021    

Hundreds of thousands of worldwide organizations are newly hacked via holes in Microsoft’s email software per a Krebs on Security article posted March 5, 2021.

Written by Sean Lyngaas
Mar 6, 2021 | CYBERSCOOP

“For a week we lost control of the Perl.com domain,” a long-running site offering news and articles about the programming language, writes the site’s senior editor, brian d foy.

“He demanded [to know] if I lived there because, ‘You look suspicious.'”

While it’s hard to say exactly why this approach is being taken now, it indicates that the original plans for these components are unavailable or the manufacturing processes and tooling used to produce them no longer exists… Indeed, as the average age of the Air Force fleet continues to increase, there are only likely to be more such requirements for parts that are long out of production. Before he stood down, the former Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics, Will Roper, told Air Force Magazine of his desire for a “digital representation of every part in the Air Force inventory….”

What you will learn in this webinar:

• Why your cyber program should be informed by threat.
• How to choose which areas of your business to protect first.
• How to make smart security investments that are aligned with business priorities and generate optimal results from your cyber program.
• Why security teams will need to pivot their strategy over the life of their business to ensure a successful cyber program and how you can apply these strategies.
• Why generating reports is ineffective and how to effectively measure your cyber program.
• How to increase your risk and security intelligence to make more confident decisions and provide trustworthy information to the board and executives. 

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Bill Vollono, Sales Engineer, Recorded Future
Kirk Hogan, CIO, Practice Lead, Security Operations, Iceberg Networks

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When you think of disruption, the typical image is a tornado coming through and ripping things up, leaving towns leveled and nothing the same moving forward. But disruption can be slow and steady, incremental in the way everything you thought you knew has changed. Securing cloud environments was like that, initially trying to use existing security concepts and controls, which worked well enough. Until they didn’t and forced a re-evaluation of everything that we thought we knew about security. The changes were (and still are for many) challenging, but overall very positive.

In each incident, the intruders have left behind a “web shell,” an easy-to-use, password-protected hacking tool that can be accessed over the Internet from any browser that gives the attackers administrative access to the victim’s computer servers. Speaking on condition of anonymity, two cybersecurity experts who’ve briefed U.S. national security advisors on the attack told KrebsOnSecurity the Chinese hacking group thought to be responsible has seized control over “hundreds of thousands” of Microsoft Exchange Servers worldwide — with each victim system representing approximately one organization that uses Exchange to process email. Microsoft said the Exchange flaws are being targeted by a previously unidentified Chinese hacking crew it dubbed “Hafnium,” and said the group had been conducting targeted attacks on email systems used by a range of industry sectors, including infectious disease researchers, law firms, higher education institutions, defense contractors, policy think tanks, and NGOs.

On March 2^nd , 2021, Volexity reported the in-the-wild exploitation of the following Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-26855, CVE-2021-26857, CVE-2021-26858 and CVE-2021-27065.

At least 30,000 organizations across the United States — including a significant number of small businesses, towns, cities and local governments — have over the past few days been hacked by an unusually aggressive Chinese cyber espionage unit that’s focused on stealing email from victim organizations, multiple sources tell KrebsOnSecurity. The espionage group is exploiting four newly-discovered flaws in Microsoft Exchange Server email software, and has seeded hundreds of thousands of victim organizations worldwide with tools that give the attackers total, remote control over affected systems.

Rob Lefferts, corporate vice president for Microsoft 365 Security in Security and Compliance, explains the company’s approach to keeping its customers and the industry apprised and updated on its findings from the now-infamous attack.

The Microsoft Exchange Zero-day exploit drop this week is a big one for 2021. The actions everyone needs to take when these exploits are being used in the wild is:

A new auto-injecting pill might soon become a replacement for subcutaneous injection treatments.

Optimizely co-founder Dan Siroker said the idea for his new startup Scribe goes back to a couple of personal experiences — and although Scribe’s first product is focused on Zoom, those experiences weren’t Zoom-related at all.

The UK’s medical device regulator has admitted it has concerns about VC-backed AI chatbot maker Babylon Health. It made the admission in a letter sent to a clinician who’s been raising the alarm about Babylon’s approach toward patient safety and corporate governance since 2017.