The Albuquerque Public Schools student information system has been compromised in a cyberattack, prompting the closure of schools serving over 85,000 students in New Mexico.

APT35 (aka Charming Kitten, TA453, or Phosphorus) started widespread scanning and attempted to leverage Log4j flaw in publicly facing systems only four days after the vulnerability was disclosed, according to new Check Point research. 

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and National Security Agency (NSA) are asking critical infrastructure network defenders to adopt a heightened state of awareness to mitigate attacks from Russian-state sponsored threat actors.

From multi-factor authentication to annual penetration testing, there are always more methods to implement in order to better secure small businesses from cyberattacks.

In a recent update, Panasonic has verified that hackers accessed personal information belonging to job candidates and interns during a November cyberattack. 

The 2022 Insight Intelligent Technology Report found that security is a top priority for IT leaders in multiple facets of their work, including taking on new responsibilities and integrating cloud technology.

Grass Valley, California has suffered a data breach.

The JFrog security research team has disclosed an issue in the H2 database console, which was issued a critical CVE — CVE-2021-42392. This issue has the same root cause as the Log4Shell vulnerability in Apache Log4j.

John Mbuthia, cybersecurity and technology exec, has been named the first Chief Information Officer at Gore Mutual Insurance Company.

The Fertility Centers of Illinois (FCI) has notified nearly 80,000 current and former patients that their information may have been compromised.