A rapid deployment team of FBI cyber experts is heading to Montenegro to investigate a massive and coordinated attack on the tiny Balkan nation’s government and its services, the country’s Ministry of Internal Affairs announced Wednesday.
ndpoint security company McAfee warns of five malicious Chrome extensions designed to track users’ browsing activity and inject code into ecommerce platforms.
The WordPress team this week announced the release of version 6.0.2 of the content management system (CMS), with patches for three security bugs, including a high-severity SQL injection vulnerability.
Google this week announced the first stable release of Chrome 105, which comes with patches for 24 vulnerabilities, including 13 use-after-free and heap buffer overflow bugs.
As a cybersecurity professional, I appreciate the impact that cyber policy can have on the adoption of and effective utilization of technology. We see this working today in very advanced, mature industries. In the automotive industry, policies around safety for instance, have done wonders to reduce the number of injuries resulting from an accident. Likewise, policies for manufacturing and chemical production help reduce the risk associated with handling dangerous chemicals. Cybersecurity is far less mature than the automotive or chemical industries, however, it is influencing and being impacted by evolving cyber policies and regulations.
