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Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity at the A&M System is an individual and collective effort of our members. It is necessary for us to work together, sharing resources and information assets.

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Federal Agency Again Honors Texas A&M University System For Success in Protecting U.S. Secrets, Technology

For the second time in three years, the Texas A&M System won the Defense Counterintelligence & Security Agency Award for Excellence in Counterintelligence. The award is given for work to protect sensitive information from foreign spies. The System holds the distinction of being the only higher education institution to win the award more than once.
May 15, 2020

RSS Threat Posts

  • ZuoRAT Can Take Over Widely Used SOHO Routers
    Devices from Cisco, Netgear and others at risk from the multi-stage malware, which has been active since April 2020 and shows the work of a sophisticated threat actor.
  • A Guide to Surviving a Ransomware Attack
    Oliver Tavakoli, CTO at Vectra AI, gives us hope that surviving a ransomware attack is possible, so long as we apply preparation and intentionality to our defense posture.
  • Leaky Access Tokens Exposed Amazon Photos of Users
    Hackers with Amazon users’ authentication tokens could’ve stolen or encrypted personal photos and documents.
  • Patchable and Preventable Security Issues Lead Causes of Q1 Attacks
    Attacks against U.S. companies spike in Q1 2022 with patchable and preventable external vulnerabilities responsible for bulk of attacks.
  • Top Six Security Bad Habits, and How to Break Them
    Shrav Mehta, CEO, Secureframe, outlines the top six bad habits security teams need to break to prevent costly breaches, ransomware attacks and prevent phishing-based endpoint attacks.
  • Mitel VoIP Bug Exploited in Ransomware Attacks
    Researchers warn threat actors are using a novel remote code execution exploit to gain initial access to victim’s environments.
  • ‘Killnet’ Adversary Pummels Lithuania with DDoS Attacks Over Blockade
    Cyber collective Killnet claims it won’t let up until the Baltic country opens trade routes to and from the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.
  • Log4Shell Vulnerability Targeted in VMware Servers to Exfiltrate Data
    CISA warns that threat actors are ramping up attacks against unpatched Log4Shell vulnerability in VMware servers.
  • Google Warns Spyware Being Deployed Against Android, iOS Users
    The company is warning victims in Italy and Kazakhstan that they have been targeted by the malware from Italian firm RCS Labs.
  • Fancy Bear Uses Nuke Threat Lure to Exploit 1-Click Bug
    The APT is pairing a known Microsoft flaw with a malicious document to load malware that nabs credentials from Chrome, Firefox and Edge browsers.

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