[ad_1] NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben NASA is set to channel the spirit of the 1998 movie Armageddon on Monday. The space agency plans to crash a spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos in the first test of a planetary defense system. Dubbed the “Double Asteroid Redirection Test” (DART), the program aims to change the orbit of … Read more
[ad_1] Google Chrome is under attack on Windows and Android. The latest security hole in WebRTC has a freely circulating exploit, so you don’t want to browse without installing the patch. This is what you need to know. The zero-day security hole involves a buffer overflow in WebRTC, a real-time communication standard supported by all … Read more
[ad_1] Ukraine’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA) warns of mass distribution of Jester Stealer malware via phishing emails with warnings of impending chemical attacks to scare recipients into opening attachments. As the war between Russia and Ukraine continues, the threat of an escalation in the use of more lethal weapons remains a cause for concern. … Read more
[ad_1] Lincoln College, a liberal arts college in rural Illinois, says it will close its doors at the end of this month, 157 years since its founding and after a brutal hit to its finances from the COVID-19 pandemic and a recent ransomware attack. This decision was made even more difficult as the university survived … Read more
[ad_1] AGCO, a major US-based producer of agricultural machinery, has announced that it was affected by a ransomware attack that affected some of its production facilities. Today, AGCO announced that yesterday it suffered a ransomware attack that affected some of the company’s production facilities. While AGCO doesn’t provide any details about the cause of the … Read more
[ad_1] The American Dental Association (ADA) was hit by a weekend cyberattack that caused them to shut down parts of their network while they investigated the attack. The ADA is a dental and oral hygiene advocacy association that provides training, workshops and courses to its 175,000 members. For many who live in the US, they … Read more
[ad_1] Four months have passed since Log4Shell, a critical zero-day vulnerability in the ubiquitous Apache Log4j library, was discovered, and threat analysts warn that the application of available fixes is still long overdue. Although the public interest and focus of the information security community has shifted to new vulnerabilities and exploits, Log4Shell remains a large-scale … Read more
[ad_1] A life-threatening individual has died after being forced to go to a more distant hospital due to a ransomware attack. On September 10, the University Hospital Düsseldorf (UKD) in Germany suffered a ransomware attack after threats compromised its network with a software vulnerability in “commercial add-on software common on the market and used worldwide.” … Read more