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On Sunday, video surveillance giant Hikvision posted a security advisory on its website warning customers of a cyber vulnerability that could impact millions of cameras and NVRs deployed globally.  The “command injection vulnerability” could allow threat actors to have complete control of compromised devices and was discovered by cybersecurity researcher Watchful IP in June and first reported on Monday by IPVM.  According to the security advisory, the vulnerability received a base score of 9.8 out of 10 per the Common…

A malware campaign targeting Android devices in the United States and Canada with convincing text messages and links that lead to a downloader has highlighted the danger from SMS spam and phishing, security experts report. The campaign, dubbed TangleBot, uses coronavirus-themed messages to convince users to click a link, which leads to websites that attempt to collect sensitive information from the victim, according to researchers from email and messaging security firm Cloudmark in a September 23…

FS-ISAC (The Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center) has announced that global cyber intelligence sharing among its member financial firms has soared by 60% from August 2020 to August 2021, caused by supply chain and ransomware threats.  Record-breaking levels of intelligence sharing across all regions occurred due to large-scale threats. These areas included North America; Latin America; Europe, the UK, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. Commenting on the news, FS-ISAC said that attacks…

VMware Cloud on AWS introduced SDDC Groups and VMware Transit Connect last year  – a construct to organize SDDCs along with high bandwidth connectivity for SDDCs in a Group. Transit Connect also provides a simple and scalable solution to connect to AWS VPCs and on-premises data centers over Direct Connect Gateway. Together, they enable customers to expand their deployments while laying the foundation for new features such as vCenter Linking. SDDC Group Connectivity to Transit…

Commentary: Open source has never been more popular or more under attack, but there’s something cloud providers can do to make OSS more secure. Image: Kheng Guan Toh/Shutterstock TechRepublic contributing writer Jack Wallen is correct that “Open source software has proved itself, time and time and time again, that it is business-grade for a very long time.” Sonatype is also correct that supply chain attacks against popular open source software repositories jumped 650% over the…

The protected health information of hundreds of thousands of Americans has been exposed in two separate security incidents at eye-care providers in the United States. Simon Eye Management reported a data breach to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights on September 14. An email hacking incident at the Delaware-based eye-care group exposed the data of 144,000 individuals. According to a notice issued by Simon Eye, suspicious activity “related to certain employee email accounts”…