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jon greig
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cybersecurity reporter for The Record. formerly: zdnet, techrepublic, blavity, haitian times, cambodia daily — send tips to jonathangreig11@protonmail.com
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The DOJ and SEC charged a UK national for hacking into 5 public companies and stealing earnings reports before they were published. The guy made $3.75 million from the hacks therecord.media/uk-national-...

UK national hacked public companies for stock trading intel, DOJ says
UK national hacked public companies for stock trading intel, DOJ says

Robert Westbrook is accused of stealing information ahead of 14 different earnings announcements.

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Large increase in queries on 631/UDP seen in our sensors due to recent CUPS RCEs disclosure. These include callback attempts. We are exploring possible non-invasive scanning options for the recent RCEs. Please note we scan daily for exposed IPP printer services (631/TCP).

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I don’t think people realize just how vulnerable our water infrastructure is to attack. 4500+ different entities all operating independently with different budgets and regulations. It’s more luck than anything else that something catastrophic hasn’t happened. via @jgreig.bsky.social

CISA warns of continuing attacks on water systems after Kansas town reports incident
CISA warns of continuing attacks on water systems after Kansas town reports incident

Government-run water systems are still at risk of attack by cybercriminals and nation-states, according to a new advisory from the U.S.’s top cybersecurity agency.

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Ok I'm glad I'm not crazy. I tried to ask a question and thought it was nuts that no one else had a question

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Richardson — a Dallas suburb home to about 120,000 people — said ransomware hackers tried to encrypt their systems on Wednesday morning The attack was mostly unsuccessful but "internal access to City servers has been shut down," according to the a spox therecord.media/richardson-t...

Dallas suburb working with FBI to address attempted ransomware attack
Dallas suburb working with FBI to address attempted ransomware attack

The municipal government of Richardson, Texas, said "automated security systems" responded this week to digital intruders, and the city is still working to assess what kind of data might've been acces...

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Wyden and Warner introduced a bill today that creates minimum cyber standards for the healthcare industry, mandates annual audits and provides $1.3 billion over four years for improved security The AHA declined to comment on it therecord.media/senate-bill-...

Senate bill pushes cyber mandates for medical industry in wake of Change Healthcare debacle
Senate bill pushes cyber mandates for medical industry in wake of Change Healthcare debacle

Hospitals and other healthcare businesses would be required to adopt minimum cybersecurity standards and face annual audits under new legislation introduced by two prominent senators.

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I feel like I'm just repeating myself here but how is it remotely legal for federal officials to use their government accounts for call for violence against a group of people in this way? Is there no accountability? Will it take Black people getting lynched for anyone to do anything about this????

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CrowdStrike said it has made two changes designed to prevent outages like the July incident from happening but dodged questions about further investigations and how they plan to compensate businesses that lost millions therecord.media/crowdstrike-...

CrowdStrike tells Congress of two process changes to address July outage incident
CrowdStrike tells Congress of two process changes to address July outage incident

A CrowdStrike executive told a House panel that the company will allow customers to decide when they want updates, and it also plans to change how it verifies updates before they go out.

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jon greig
@jgreig.bsky.social
cybersecurity reporter for The Record. formerly: zdnet, techrepublic, blavity, haitian times, cambodia daily — send tips to jonathangreig11@protonmail.com
313 followers25 following304 posts