RSS_Virtulization

Threat actors are exploiting the recently patched CVE-2021-40438 flaw in Apache HTTP servers, warns German Cybersecurity Agency and Cisco. Threat actors are exploiting a recently addressed server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-40438, in Apache HTTP servers. The CVE-2021-40438 flaw can be exploited against httpd web servers that have the mod_proxy module enabled. A threat actor can trigger the issue using a specially crafted request to cause the module to forward the request to an arbitrary…

The former dean of a business school in Philadelphia has been found guilty of involvement in a fraudulent scheme to doctor program rankings using false data. Moshe Porat, of Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, was dean of Temple University’s Richard J. Fox School of Business and Management for more than two decades, from 1996 until 2018. On Monday, a jury found 74-year-old Porat guilty of scheming to deceive the school’s applicants, students, and donors into believing that…

The former dean of a business school in Philadelphia has been found guilty of involvement in a fraudulent scheme to doctor program rankings using false data. Moshe Porat, of Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, was dean of Temple University’s Richard J. Fox School of Business and Management for more than two decades, from 1996 until 2018. On Monday, a jury found 74-year-old Porat guilty of scheming to deceive the school’s applicants, students, and donors into believing that…

A school district in East Texas will start scanning digital devices used by its students to find out what they have been saying to and about one another.  Longview Independent School District (Longview ISD) has partnered with technology and web-hosting company Gaggle to scour district-issued devices and student emails for a particular set of keywords. With Gaggle’s software, the keywords can be detected and reported to school administrators.  The district says that the purpose of the virtual…

A school district in East Texas is going to start scanning the digital devices used by its students to find out what they have been saying to and about one another.  Longview Independent School District (Longview ISD) has partnered with technology and web-hosting company Gaggle to scour district-issued devices and student emails for a particular set of keywords. With Gaggle’s software, the keywords can be detected and reported to school administrators.  The district says that the purpose…

The new quantum company plans a hardware agnostic approach combined with Honeywell’s H1 and Cambridge Quantum’s tket. Quantinuum is the new company that combines trapped ion hardware from Honeywell Quantum Solutions and open-source software from Cambridge Quantum to create a full-stack quantum computing company. Image: Quantinuum Quantinuum is not counting qubits in the race to error-corrected quantum computing. The new company is asking a new question: “What can we do right now with what we’ve…

American facial recognition company Clearview AI is facing a fine of just over £17m ($22.6m) for alleged “serious breaches” of the UK’s data protection laws.  The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) announced the planned penalty yesterday and issued a provisional notice to Clearview to stop processing personal data taken from UK residents and to delete any such data in its possession. The announcement follows a joint investigation by the ICO and the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC), which found…

The various threat intelligence stories in this iteration of the Anomali Cyber Watch discuss the following topics: Data breach, Stealthy malware, Vulnerabilities and Web skimmers. The IOCs related to these stories are attached to Anomali Cyber Watch and can be used to check your logs for potential malicious activity. Figure 1 – IOC Summary Charts. These charts summarize the IOCs attached to this magazine and provide a glimpse of the threats discussed. Trending Cyber News…