Three Ways IP Data Enhances Cyber Security
By Jonathan Tomek, VP of Research and Development, Digital Envoy Cyber security professionals were never worry-free; there are simply too many nefarious players who have much to gain by hacking […]
Executive Order Instructs Certain Organizations to Improve Their Cybersecurity Stance
Financial Institutions Should Boost Their Efforts to Thwart Cyberattacks By Bob Thibodeaux, Chief Information Security Officer, DefenseStorm Consumer data is one of the most valuable assets for organizations around the […]
Too Hot to Handle:The case for Zero Trust and SASE
By Jonathan Lee, Senior Product Manager, Menlo Security Insecurity today we often see the continued reliance on legacy systems and solutions. As cybercriminals have evolved their methods, the security adopted […]
5 Reasons Organizations Need Comprehensive AD Security Across Cloud and On-Prem
Why Organizations Need to Secure Directory Services in a Hybrid Deployment from Attack Paths By Justin Kohler, Director of BloodHound Enterprise at SpecterOps Microsoft Active Directory is one of […]
Combining True MDR & SOC for Robust Cybersecurity
By Jon Murchison, Founder, and CEO, Blackpoint Cyber Assessing the Current Threat Landscape The only constant in the cyberthreat landscape is that it is ever evolving. Amid a global pandemic, […]
Responding To the Ransomware Pandemic
By Tom McVey, Solution Architect, Menlo Security Last year, Kaseya became the victim of the largest ransomware attack in history when Russian-linked hacker group REvil breached the US software company’s […]
How Criminals Have Migrated Through Identity Theft and Privacy into Cyber Attacks
By P. William Zivanchev, Executive Director, Institute of Consumer Financial Education Introduction At first glance, readers may wonder why an article on identity theft appears in Cyber Defense Magazine, and […]
Cybersecurity Experts Share Their Predictions for 2022
By Danny Lopez, CEO of Glasswall The year 2021 raised many major cybersecurity concerns including the rise in ransomware attacks, phishing scams, and data breaches. Many organizations have embraced a […]
First Steps to Alleviate Long-Term Consequences from A Cyberattack
Brief Guide By Sergey Ozhegov, CEO, SearchInform When a cyberattack occurs it is easy to panic and forget all the steps you have been told to make before. What is […]
Why Email Archiving Builds Cyber Resilience
Plus 3 Email Archiving Solutions By Adnan A. Olia, Chief Operating Officer, Intradyn As innovations in technology continue to create new uses across an array of industries, cyber safety has […]
What To Know to Fight Against Cyber Attacks
By Gergo Varga, Senior Content Manager / Evangelist at SEON Cyber attacks have become a part of our reality, not only that we are all constantly getting phishing emails, but […]
Hundreds of thousands of fake warnings of cyberattacks sent from a hacked FBI email server
Threat actors hacked email servers of the FBI to distribute spam email impersonating FBI warnings of fake cyberattacks. The email servers of the FBI were hacked to distribute spam email […]
Digital Transformation Security: Guidelines for Success
By Yehudah Sunshine, Head of PR, odix With the workforce going remote and IP existing almost exclusively in the digital domain enterprises, local and federal agencies, and SMBs alike are […]
The Top 3 Cyber Security Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
As hacks become more common, organizations have no room for cybersecurity mistakes. By Ivan Paynter, National Cybersecurity Specialist at ScanSource Ransomware cost Americans an estimated $1.4 billion last year, and beyond high-profile hacks […]
Olympus US was forced to take down computer systems due to cyberattack
Olympus US was forced to take down IT systems in the American region (U.S., Canada, and Latin America) following a cyberattack. The medical technology giant Olympus was forced to shut […]
UK newspaper The Telegraph exposed a 10TB database with subscriber data
The UK media outlet The Telegraph has leaked 10 TB of subscriber data after failing to properly secure one of its databases. The UK newspaper The Telegraph’, one of the […]
Russia-linked Nobelium APT group uses custom backdoor to target Windows domains
Microsoft discovered new custom malware, dubbed FoggyWeb, used by the Nobelium cyberespionage group to implant backdoor in Windows domains. Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) researchers have discovered a new custom […]
Jupyter infostealer continues to evolve and is distributed via MSI installers
Cybersecurity researchers spotted a new version of the Jupyter infostealer which is distributed via MSI installers. Cybersecurity researchers from Morphisec have spotted a new version of the Jupyter infostealer that […]
Black Matter gang demanded a $5.9M ransom to NEW Cooperative
U.S. The farmers cooperative NEW Cooperative was hit by Black Matter ransomware gang that is demanding a $5.9 million ransom. BlackMatter ransomware gang hit NEW Cooperative, a farmer’s feed and […]
New Report Reveals Traditional Anti-Malware Solutions Miss 74% of Threats
By Corey Nachreiner, Chief Security Officer, WatchGuard Technologies The threat landscape is an erratic and ever-evolving beast. While it knows no master, its behavior is broadly directed by the host […]
How Trustworthy is Your Cyber Defense?
Make your cybersecurity spending pay off with added defense tactics and provider accreditation By Tom Brennan, Chairman, CREST USA Cyber criminals are branching out from the big guys, the Facebook-type […]
U.S. State Department was recently hit by a cyber attack
The U.S. State Department was recently hit by a cyber attack, the Department of Defense Cyber Command might have suffered a serious breach. The U.S. State Department was recently hit […]
Embed Security into Your Modernized Applications
By Gadi Naor, CTO and Co-Founder of Alcide Companies may be feeling pressure to modernize their legacy, monolithic applications for many reasons: some may wish to operate on a larger […]
No, You Don’t Need
By Daniel Petrillo , Director of Security Strategy, Morphisec Endpoint detection and response (EDR) solutions, and their evolution — extended detection and response (XDR) platforms — are increasingly popular. To […]
Kaseya releases patches for flaws exploited in massive ransomware supply-chain attack
Kaseya has released a security update to address the VSA zero-day vulnerabilities exploited by REvil gang in the massive ransomware supply chain attack. Software vendor Kaseya has released a security […]
New LinkedIn breach exposes data of 700 Million users
A new massive LinkedIn breach made the headlines, the leak reportedly exposes the data of 700M users, more than 92% of the total 756M users. A new massive LinkedIn breach […]
Overcoming Security as a Barrier to Cloud Adoption
By Ron Newman, SVP at NTT Ltd. Security Division The last year has forced organizations into change, both planned and unplanned. Companies have had to pivot, rethink their business strategies […]
Crypto-mining campaign targets Kubeflow installs on a large scale
Microsoft uncovered a malicious campaign targeting Kubeflow workloads to deploy TensorFlow pods that are used to mine cryptocurrency. Microsoft researchers uncovered a malicious campaign targeting Kubeflow workloads to deploy TensorFlow […]
Siloscape, first known malware that drops a backdoor into Kubernetes clusters
Siloscape is a new strain of malware that targets Windows Server containers to execute code on the underlying node and spread in the Kubernetes cluster. Researchers from Palo Alto Networks […]
Experts devised a new attack to bypass Microsoft PatchGuard
A security researcher discovered a bug in PatchGuard Windows security feature that can allow loading unsigned malicious code into the Windows kernel. Japanese researcher Kento Oki has discovered a bug […]