CISA Emergency Directive Orders Mitigations After Microsoft Breach
The U.S. government has made public an emergency directive that it issued last week for federal agencies, ordering them to take
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The U.S. government has made public an emergency directive that it issued last week for federal agencies, ordering them to take
The XZ Utils backdoor was a very subtle operation that took several years to pull off, and while some of the technical details are
CISA has laid out the proposed details of the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act (CIRCIA).
Okta customer BeyondTrust said that it first detected the attack and notified Okta on Oct. 2, though Okta did not confirm an internal breach until Oct. 19.
The hope is that these types of committees will tighten collaboration between boards and CISOs and lead to more support and resources for organizations’ cybersecurity strategies.
Microsoft warned that these attacks are “particularly high risk” for impacted organizations.
The flaw was disclosed last week, but researchers said that exploitation started in late August.
CISA and the FBI are urging network administrators to apply patches for the Atlassian Confluence bug (CVE-2023-22515) immediately.