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• JEDI Contract to Have Only One Master

  24-03-2020 20:09
  JEDI Contract to Have Only One Master The US Department of Defense has confirmed that a massive cloud-computing contract potentially worth $10bn will be awarded to a single contractor.Rumors had circulated that the lucrative Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract might be jointly awarded to Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services. However, a Pentagon spokesman said this morning that the award would not be split. In an email to news site Breaking Defense, public affairs
  
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• Hack Attempt on the WHO

  24-03-2020 19:22
  Hack Attempt on the WHOAn elite band of hackers is thought to be behind a digital break-in attempt at the World Health Organization.WHO Chief Information Security Officer Flavio Aggio said that the attempted attack occurred earlier this month and had made use of a malicious domain. The assailants behind the bungled break-in are yet to be identified. The hack was just one of a huge number of attempts made against the organization and its partners in recent weeks, according to Reute
  
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• Malicious "Corona Anti-Virus" Software Discovered

  24-03-2020 18:38
  Malicious "Corona Anti-Virus" Software DiscoveredResearchers at Malwarebytes have unearthed a website advertising fake anti-virus software it claims can protect people from contracting the real human virus COVID-19.In what comes across as a bizarrely comic case of miscommunication, the site (antivirus-covid19[.]site) offers users the chance to "Download our AI Corona Antivirus for the best possible protection against the Corona COVID-19 virus." The site's operators carefully chose
  
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• Public ICS Intrusion Tools “Lower the Bar” for Hackers

  24-03-2020 13:15
  Public ICS Intrusion Tools “Lower the Bar” for HackersAttack tools designed to target industrial control systems (ICS) are becoming more widespread, raising risk levels for CISOs in affected sectors, according to FireEye.The security vendor warned that while attacks on OT systems usually require a “high level of skill and expertise” on the part of the hackers, various publicly available tools and exploit modules, often released by white hat researchers, are “ma
  
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• Microsoft: Targeted Attackers Are Exploiting Two Zero-Day Bugs

  24-03-2020 12:15
  Microsoft: Targeted Attackers Are Exploiting Two Zero-Day BugsMicrosoft is warning that targeted attackers are exploiting two Windows zero-day vulnerabilities in the wild.Issued on Monday, the security advisory flags two previously undisclosed remote code execution (RCE) bugs. The flaws exist in Microsoft Windows when “the Windows Adobe Type Manager Library improperly handles a specially-crafted multi-master font - Adobe Type 1 PostScript format.”The vulnerabilities are rated critica
  
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• Interpol Seizes $14m in Fake #COVID19 Pharma Goods

  24-03-2020 11:00
  Interpol Seizes $14m in Fake #COVID19 Pharma Goods Interpol has announced a global crackdown on counterfeit medical and pharmaceutical supplies following a surge in demand for items as the COVID-19 pandemic worsens.The law enforcement organization claimed in an update over the weekend that the latest push in its long-running Operation Pangea strategy had already borne fruit.It announced the seizure of 34,000 counterfeit surgical masks, as well as “corona spray,” “coronavirus pa
  
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• German army loses 6 million masks in Kenya

  24-03-2020 10:44 via defencetalk.com
  
  DefenceTalkA German army shipment of six million face masks needed to protect against the novel coronavirus has vanished in Kenya, the defence ministry in Berlin confirmed Tuesday. “We are trying to...
  
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• 33% of UK Orgs Lack Tech Infrastructure for Long-Term Remote Working

  24-03-2020 10:38
  33% of UK Orgs Lack Tech Infrastructure for Long-Term Remote WorkingA third of UK businesses do not currently have the tech infrastructure to handle long-term remote working, according to new data commissioned by Leonne International and conducted by independent survey company Censuswide.The concerning research comes at a time when large numbers of businesses have closed their offices and implemented mass working from home efforts as part of social distancing attempts to help slow the spread of
  
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