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In prepared testimony to Congress, Microsoft President Brad Smith “accepts responsibility” for security issues highlighted by an April report by the US Cyber Safety Review Board that said the company committed a “cascade” of “avoidable errors.” Those errors, the report claims, allowed Chinese hackers to access the email accounts of senior US officials — including the secretary of commerce.

The prepared testimony says, “We acknowledge that we can and must do better, and we apologize and express our deepest regrets to those who have been impacted.” Smith appeared before Congress on Thursday.

The German government continues to be in high-profile cybersecurity headlines, this time warning police officers to be on high alert for Islamist attacks during the Euro 2024 soccer tournament — this time adding that cyber attacks could be a major component. The month-long tournament is estimated to host about 2.7 million in stadium attendance nationwide and 12 million more fans watching at public gatherings.

Alongside tighter cybersecurity measures, Germany will have 22,000 police officers working every single day of the event, and they’ve worked with international partners to tighten border control.

Kandula Nagaraju, 39, has been sentenced to two years and eight months of jail for hacking his former employer — the IT giant NCS Group’s Singapore branch. Nagaraju supposedly deleted 180 virtual servers in the hack, causing an estimated $678,000 in damages.

After being fired in October 2022 for what the company cited as poor performance, Nagaraju was unable to find another job and had to leave Singapore and return to his home country of India. He continued to carry out the attack against NCS after finding a new job in Singapore.

Interesting Read

Ready for a bit of fun? In this article for the Journal of Cybersecurity, Luca Viganò analyzes 16 classic fairy tales, finding multiple cybersecurity motifs in all of them. The use-case of such an analysis is so that these fairy tales can “be employed to mediate in conversations with less-knowledgeable, misinformed, or even skeptical laypersons about cybersecurity…”

But the analysis is enjoyable in its own right. The article includes a table with fairy tales like Cinderella and Rumpilstiltskin checked for cybersecurity themes like authentication, escalation of privilege, fake credentials, and more.

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The CybersecurityHQ Team