ISC2 Central Mississippi Chapter

A halt on new contract awards by the federal government's top procurement agency has thrown vendors into confusion, raising concerns about its ripple effects.

The General Services Administration in a Jan. 24 memo to all contracting officers called a pause "effective immediately, and until further ...

Good day to all, I hope the new year finds you well. I'm pleased to announce the details of our February meeting. It will be held at 12:30 (lunchtime) on the 11th. The location is 303 Jefferson in Clinton. Here's the address:

303 Jefferson Street
Clinton, MS 39056

The topic will be DNSSEC, and ...

Malware hunters at GreyNoise are reporting active exploitation of a newly discovered zero-day vulnerability in Zyxel CPE devices alongside warnings that there are no patches available from the vendor.

GreyNoise, which monitors the internet for malicious activity, described the flaw as a critical ...

Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange Phemex has fallen victim to a cyberattack that resulted in the theft of over $85 million worth of assets.

The incident occurred on January 23, when multiple suspicious transactions were observed across several blockchains, with an initial estimate setting the ...

Swedish authorities seized a vessel in the Baltic Sea as part of a criminal probe into alleged sabotage of an undersea cable between Sweden and Latvia, following a string of high-profile cable disruptions across the region.

Senior prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist said Sunday that the Swedish Security ...

Chris Krebs just got let go for the second time by President Trump.

In its first full day, the Trump administration axed all advisory committee members within the Department of Homeland Security, including the people that make up the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's (CISA) Cyber ...

Researchers at cybersecurity firm Sophos are tracking multiple clusters of hacking activity leveraging Microsoft 365 instances, Microsoft Teams and email bombing tactics to deliver ransomware.

In new research released Tuesday, the company said it had identified at least two distinct clusters of ...

Your car is spying on you.

That is one takeaway from the fast, detailed data that Tesla collected on the driver of one of its Cybertrucks that exploded in Las Vegas earlier this week. Privacy data experts say the deep dive by Elon Musk’s company was impressive, but also shines a spotlight on a ...

A Chinese state-sponsored hacker has broken into the US Treasury Department's systems, accessing employee workstations and some unclassified documents, American officials said on Monday.

The breach occurred in early December and was made public in a letter penned by the Treasury Department to ...

Anna Jaques Hospital is notifying over 316,000 individuals that their personal information was compromised in a December 2023 data breach.

The incident was identified on Christmas day last year and resulted in the hospital diverting patients from its emergency rooms after its health record system ...