In response to recent cybersecurity incidences like the SolarWinds breach, Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerabilities, and the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack, President Biden signed an executive order to increase the cybersecurity stance of the federal government and all civilian agencies it contracts with. The 34-page executive order implements minimum security … [Read more...]
China’s Explicitly Biased Face Recognition Model
According to an article by Techdirt, the Chinese government has created "Uyghur alarms" by an explicitly biased face recognition service which they are using. China uses face recognition to identify and target Uyghur people. Under the guise of identifying the different races in China, the model used appears to specifically identify Uyghur and Tibetan face features and … [Read more...]
Judge Rules FBI Can Hack Into Exchange Servers
(Updated 04/22/2021 to include court order) For the last few months, we have seen Exchange Servers fall to vulnerabilities from the HAFNIUN attacks. Even after Microsoft released patches for the serious flaws, we continue to see attacks on Exchange Servers and hear of more Exchange Servers becoming compromised. This shouldn’t be news as many publications including … [Read more...]
Fireboxes Detect HAFNIUM Attacks in the Wild
Over the last few weeks, we continue to see HAFNIUM attacks against Exchange Servers through our threat intelligence. Our Firebox feed data shows Fireboxes identifying the signature almost every day over the HTTPS proxy. Yet, Many Exchange servers remain unprotected. With Exchange Outlook Web Access (OWA)servers, Fireboxes must inspect the content of HTTPS traffic for … [Read more...]
China Suspected of Targeting Email Server During Elections in Australia
As reported by ABC Australia, an Australian government email server fell victim to what we suspect was the Exchange server vulnerability disclosed earlier this month. Officials detected Chinese hackers targeting Western Australia's parliamentary email server just nine days before the state’s elections, March 13th. The attack comes after another cyber attack last June, again … [Read more...]