InfoSecSherpa’s News Roundup for Wednesday, August 11, 2021
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1 min readAug 11, 2021
- Ransomware Attack on GA Health System Impacts Staff, Patients’ PHI
(Health IT Security, August 11th) - Clearfield County (Pennsylvania) to implement cybersecurity upgrades to county networks
(We Are Central PA, August 11th) - Systemic cyberattack could present significant risk to banking sector — report
(Insurance Business America, August 11th) - Germany arrests British embassy worker suspected of spying for Russia
(NBC News, August 11th) - Discord Malware is a persistent and growing threat warns Sophos
(PC Gamer, August 11th) - NIST Study on Kids’ Passwords Shows Gap Between Knowledge of Password Best Practices and Behavior
(Mirage News, August 11th) - Norton and Avast are merging into an $8 billion antivirus empire
(The Verge, August 11th) - eCh0raix Ransomware Variant Targets QNAP, Synology NAS Devices
(Threatpost, August 10th) - Firefox 91 introduces cookie clearing, clutter-free printing, Microsoft single sign-on… so where are all the users?
(The Register, August 11th) - Azerbaijan shares data on computer security requests for July 2021
(Trend News Agency, August 11th)
