Jen Easterly hopes CSRB’s Microsoft report won’t impede future private sector collaboration CISA director Jen Easterly says the US Cybersecurity Safety Review Board (CSRB) “is not afraid to say when something is amiss” in response to questions about the future of private sector collaboration following the board’s scathing report on Microsoft.… READ MORE HERE…

There will always be bad actors in the system. We can always learn from the drama they create Opinion  Libraries. Hushed temples to the civilizing power of knowledge, or launchpads of global destruction? Yep, another word tech has borrowed and debased. Code libraries are essential for adding just the right standard tested functionality to a project. They’re also a natural home for supply chain attacks that materialize malware in the heart of the enterprise like shock troops of Klingons arriving by transporter beam.… READ MORE HERE…

Full system takeovers on the cards, for those with enough patience to pull it off Glibc-based Linux systems are vulnerable to a new bug (CVE-2024-6387) in OpenSSH’s server (sshd) and should upgrade to the latest version.… READ MORE HERE…

Get ’em while they’re hot A critical vulnerability affecting Juniper Networks routers forced the vendor to issue emergency patches last week, and users are advised to apply them as soon as possible.… READ MORE HERE…

Fasten your seat belts, secure your tray table, and try not to give away your passwords Australia’s Federal Police (AFP) has charged a man with running a fake Wi-Fi networks on at least one commercial flight and using it to harvest fliers’ credentials for email and social media services.… READ MORE HERE…

President has ordered a datacenter audit and made backups mandatory Indonesia’s president Joko Widodo has ordered an audit of government datacenters after it was revealed that most of the data they store is not backed up.… READ MORE HERE…