MoonBounce is the latest in a small but growing number of implants found hidden in a computer's Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI).
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 January 21, 2022
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Researchers Discover Dangerous Firmware-Level Rootkit
MoonBounce is the latest in a small but growing number of implants found hidden in a computer's Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI).
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Organizations need to invest in professional development — and then actually make time for it.
Enterprises Are Sailing Into a Perfect Storm of Cloud Risk
Policy as code and other techniques can help enterprises steer clear of the dangers that have befallen otherwise sophisticated cloud customers.
Biden Broadens NSA Oversight of National Security Systems
New Cybersecurity National Security Memorandum will let the spy agency "identify vulnerabilities, detect malicious threat activity and drive mitigations," agency cybersecurity director says.
Red Cross Hit via Third-Party Cyberattack
The incident compromised the personal data and confidential information of more than 515,000 "highly vulnerable people," the Red Cross reports.
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Microsoft RDP Bug Enables Data Theft, Smart-Card Hijacking
The vulnerability was patched this week in Microsoft's set of security updates for January 2022.

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