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Hackers have targeted another city with another ransomware cyberattack -- this time in South Florida, where officials have agreed to pay $600,000 to avoid the type of problems that have crippled Baltimore systems for weeks. Source: UPI

The cyber-attacks that were once the arsenal of nation states and organised cyber gangs always descend down the supply chain into the hands of the modern criminal, writes Dr Simon Wiseman, CTO, Deep Secure. One devastating technique that is increasing in popularity amongst canny cybercriminals is steganography, where information is concealed in the pixels of images (for example, in the colour and transparency values) to hide threats. Source: CBR

The email addresses of almost 40 people who have HIV have been made public by mistake. It is understood the 37 patients in the Highlands were able to see their own and the others people's addresses in an email from NHS Highland. Source: BBC

Russia, responding to a report in the New York Times about increasingly aggressive digital incursions from the US, has warned of the possibility of a fully blown ‘cyberwar’. Source: Silicon Republic

Europeans are relatively well aware of the new data protection rules, their rights and the existence of national data protection authorities, to whom they can turn for help when their rights are violated, according to the European Commission. Source: Help Net Security

Each year, ISACA tracks the state of cybersecurity by surveying practitioners and leaders across the globe about emerging trends, issues and solutions. The results of this annual information-collection effort are then released in a report called, State of Cybersecurity 2019. Source: Infosecurity Magazine

The United States Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has gone public with a warning to Microsoft Windows users regarding a critical security vulnerability. By issuing the "update now" warning, CISA has joined the likes of Microsoft itself and the National Security Agency (NSA) in warning Windows users of the danger from the BlueKeep vulnerability. Source: Forbes

Clovity, the digital transformation leader for Connected Devices, has partnered with Dispersive Networks, a provider of ultra-secure networking for mission-critical solutions, to deploy the Dispersive™ Virtual Network (VN) in its Internet of Things (IoT) solutions. Clovity's Retail, Financial Services, Healthcare, Industrial and Smart City customers benefit from new levels of performance, reliability, and security when adopting IoT solutions. Dispersive's software-defined networking (SDN) technology combined with Clovity's IoT platform, CSensorNet, enables quick and secure transmission, analysis,...

Now security operations centers (SOC) and managed security service providers (MSSPs) can benefit from a comprehensive solution including detection, investigation, and automated response that delivers significant boosts in effectiveness and productivity. Despite the intuitive coupling of automated response with advanced, machine-learning detection, the SOAR (security, orchestration, automated response) solutions available on the market typically fall short of offering both functionalities. “Talk about scaling the SOC often seems to involve a connected series of fools’ errands,”...

Exim servers, estimated to run nearly 57% of the internet's email servers, are now under a heavy barrage of attacks from hacker groups trying to exploit a recent security flaw in order to take over vulnerable servers, ZDNet has learned. At least two hacker groups have been identified carrying out attacks, one operating from a public internet server, and one using a server located on the dark web. Both groups are using an exploit for...