The world’s largest meat processor has been forced to cut the servers supporting two major global markets after an organized cyber-attack. Sao Paolo-headquartered JBS noted in a statement today (via Beef Central) that its US division detected the attack on Sunday. It apparently affected some of the servers used to power its North American and Australian IT systems. “The company took immediate action, suspending all affected systems, notifying authorities and activating the company’s global network of…

The Risk Management Framework (RMF) is most commonly associated with the NIST SP 800-37 guide for “Applying the Risk Management Framework to Federal Information Systems: A Security Life Cycle Approach,” which has been available for FISMA compliance since 2004.  It was updated in December 2018 to revision 2. This was the result of a Joint Task Force Transformation Initiative Interagency Working Group; it’s something that every agency of the U.S. government must now abide by and…

Global police have concluded a months-long campaign in which they seized $83 million in funds headed for the bank accounts of cyber-criminals and scammers. Interpol said that 40 officers from across APAC participated in the HAECHI-I operation over a six-month period. It focused specifically on investment fraud, romance scams, money laundering associated with illegal online gambling, online sextortion and voice phishing (vishing). All have become major money-makers for threat actors of late. Romance and investment…

With so many of us relying on the internet in ways we simply haven’t before, it follows that a safer internet is more important than ever before too.   June marks Internet Safety Month, a time where we can look back at the past year and realize that the internet was more than just a coping mechanism during the pandemic, it evolved into a survival tool.   Our research published earlier this year showed how. It found that we relied heavily on the internet for our banking,…

With so many of us relying on the internet in ways we simply haven’t before, it follows that a safer internet is more important than ever before too.   June marks Internet Safety Month, a time where we can look back at the past year and realize that the internet was more than just a coping mechanism during the pandemic, it evolved into a survival tool.   Our research published earlier this year showed how. It found that we relied heavily on the internet for our banking,…

With so many of us relying on the internet in ways we simply haven’t before, it follows that a safer internet is more important than ever before too.   June marks Internet Safety Month, a time where we can look back at the past year and realize that the internet was more than just a coping mechanism during the pandemic, it evolved into a survival tool.   Our research published earlier this year showed how. It found that we relied heavily on the internet for our banking,…