A Spotlight on Security | Oct. 27, 2023
Hi there. Welcome to “A Spotlight on Security” issue no. 37. Today we've got you covered with the 2nd security patch for an iPhone vulnerability, immediate cyber attack consequences for ambulances and patients in New York city, as well as the attack surface of the world's most famous lab and its security measures.
Urgent iPhone patch: When the exploiter rings twice
According to The Register , researcher colleagues at Kaspersky have disvovered the new old iPhone vulnerability exploited by TriangleDB spyware and reported it first. Using it enables executing arbitrary code with kernel privileges. The patch is 苹果 's second attempt to fix the problem. Learn more here.
Ministry open to discussion around economic NIS2 aspects
Raising cybersecurity across the board to the level envisioned by European governments is a marathon, not a sprint, that’s for sure. Nevertheless, many organizations are already seeing hurdles at the starting line, namely specialists, budget, and legal certainty.
Despite progress in terms of NIS2 transition into national laws, what applies to whom and by when remain big questions in economies across Europe, especially for private companies. This is one of the reasons why the German Federal Ministry of the Interior and Home Affairs presented a discussion paper that met with positive response. Learn more here (text in German language, DeepL may help).
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Attack on New York City hospitals puts patients at risk
A recent cyberattack on hospitals in the city of New York is alarming but went just fine – in terms of the avoidance of further physical damage at least. It caused hospitals to shut down their IT systems. As a result, ambulances and patients had to be moved elsewhere. Learn more here.
Securing one of the vastest attack surfaces in the world of physics
There is probably no laboratory in the world more famous than CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. And not many particle physics laboratories are likely to offer a larger surface for attack. CERN has just published its latest “Computer security: in numbers” report featuring tactics and measures for
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