New legislation that would subject period tracking apps to privacy regulations has been introduced by Washington state Rep. Vandana Slatter, D-48th District, amid growing concerns surrounding the lack of federal privacy protections for such apps following the reversal of Roe v. Wade ruling last June, reports The Associated Press.
The integration combines Lookout’s support for Android, iOS and Chrome OS devices into the Ivanti Go app, consolidating endpoint management and security functions.
SecurityWeek reports that pro-Ukraine hacktivist group GhostSec is having its claims of launching the first-ever ransomware attack against an industrial control system device questioned by cybersecurity experts.
Threat actors have been actively exploiting an already addressed critical vulnerability impacting the Cacti device monitoring tool, tracked as CVE-2022-46169, to deliver the Mirai malware and PERL-based IRC botnet that resulted in the opening of a host-based reverse shell, according to BleepingComputer.
Government organizations and other government-related targets had their networks targeted in attacks exploiting an already patched FortiOS SSL-VPN zero-day flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-42475, reports BleepingComputer.
More than 100 models of Siemens SIMATIC and SIPLUS S7-1500 programmable logic controllers were found by Red Balloon Security to contain several architectural flaws that could be leveraged to facilitate device compromise, The Hacker News reports.
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