US DoJ indicts four members of China-linked APT40 cyberespionage group
US DoJ indicted four members of the China-linked cyberespionage group known as APT40 for hacking various entities between 2011 and 2018. The U.S. Justice Department (DoJ) indicted four members of […]
Exploring the Synergies Between HIPAA Compliance and Cybersecurity
By Dr. Rachael Bailey, Healthcare IT Content Consultant at Atlantic.Net As the world finds itself in the clutch of a global pandemic, it is evident that cybercriminals are using the […]
Current Cybersecurity Weaknesses Will Result in Continued Data Breaches
By Randy Reiter CEO of Don’t Be Breached Problems in cybersecurity resulted in the successful hacking campaign that foreign state hacking groups used leveraging product updates from the IT software […]
The Importance Of Protecting Your App’s Source Code
By Rui Ribeiro, CEO and Co-founder, Jscrambler If your business operations involve any type of web or mobile app, it’s likely that the source code of these apps represents a […]
Biden discussed Russian ransomware gangs with Putin in a phone call
President Joe Biden expressed concerns about ransomware attacks carried out by Russian gangs during a phone call with President Vladimir Putin. The recent wave of ransomware attacks carried out by […]
Morgan Stanley discloses data breach after the hack of a third-party vendor
The American multinational investment bank and financial services firm Morgan Stanley discloses a data breach caused by the hack of an Accellion FTA server of a third-party vendor. Investment banking firm Morgan Stanley has […]
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 […]
Five Steps for Safely Migrating your Workloads to the Cloud
Why security in the cloud is a shared responsibility relationship between the infrastructure provider and the customer By Paul Farrall, CISO at Skytap Organizations moving workloads to the cloud must […]
The builder for Babuk Locker ransomware was leaked online
The builder for the Babuk Locker ransomware was leaked online, threat actors can use it to create their own ransomware strain. The Record first reported that the builder for the […]
How Our Pharmacy Group Has Readied Secure HIPAA-Compliant WFH Policies
If anticipating a hybrid or remote workforce in the post-pandemic era, here are three best practices to ensure security By Marshall Frost, VP of Corporate Systems, Avita Pharmacy At our […]
All the User Experience, None of The Security?
EU telcos gather a lot of highly sensitive customer information. New research suggests it’s not as well protected as you might think. By Deepika Gajaria, Vice President of Product, Tala […]
Why A ‘Layers and Lists’ Approach to Cybersecurity Is Doomed to Fail
By Gary Fischer, VP Americas, XM Cyber Why is cyber-defense such an asymmetrical war? Hackers can launch a barrage of attacks on a single target and keep going until they find […]
New Report Shows Over Two Million Secrets Detected on Public GitHub in 2020 and a 20% growing trend Year-Over-Year.
By Jeremy Thomas, GitGuardian CEO When we started working on GitGuardian’s detection algorithm and got the first detection results, we could not believe it. We were facing a very counterintuitive […]
Securing Patient Private Information in The Age of Shared Information
By Christian Gitersonke, CEO, Health Insurance Answers The Problem Theft of Private Health Information (PHI) has been around almost as long as healthcare in this country. As technology has evolved […]
Open XDR vs. SIEM
Matching Resources and Business Risk with the Right Solution Gaining visibility and responding to attacks across the entire enterprise infrastructure (endpoints, servers, applications, SaaS, cloud, users, etc.) is a very […]
Norway blames China-linked APT31 for 2018 government hack
Norway police secret service states said that China-linked APT31 group was behind the 2018 cyberattack on the government’s IT network. Norway’s Police Security Service (PST) said that the China-linked APT31 […]
Why XDR is Not Enough
By Guy Rosefelt, Security CMO, Sangfor Technologies What is XDR? One of the latest trends in cybersecurity is Extended Detection and Response, more commonly known as XDR. Although originally defined […]
REvil ransomware gang hit US nuclear weapons contractor Sol Oriens
The REvil ransomware gang made the headlines again, the group hit the US nuclear weapons contractor Sol Oriens and stole the victim’s data. US nuclear weapons contractor Sol Oriens was […]
G7 calls on Russia to dismantle operations of ransomware gangs within its borders
The member states of the G7 group have called on Russia and other states to dismantle operations of the ransomware gangs operating within their countries. G7 member states have called […]
Uncovering hidden cybersecurity risks
By Adam Nichols, Principal of Software Security at GRIMM The technology we use and depend upon has critical vulnerabilities in their software and firmware, lurking just beneath the surface of […]
A Digital Journey: A Long and Winding Road
How did we build the internet and not secure it? By David Jemmett, CEO and Founder, Cerberus Sentinel Many people are under the impression that the internet is essentially safe […]
Rethinking Remote Monitoring and Management: How MSPs Can Put Security First and Better Protect Their Clients
By Ryan Heidorn, Managing Partner, Steel Root For most Managed Service Providers (MSPs), using a remote monitoring and management (RMM) platform to centrally manage their clients’ networks is a foregone […]
Key Business Lessons Learned from The SolarWinds Hack
By, George Waller, CEO of Strikeforce Technologies A full year of disruption by the global pandemic has forced businesses to adapt fast to the shifting remote work realities. This new […]
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 […]
New Epsilon Red Ransomware appears in the threat landscape
Researchers spotted a new piece of ransomware named Epsilon Red that was employed at least in an attack against a US company. Researchers from Sophos spotted a new piece of […]
Understanding The Surge in Cyber Extortion
By Jamie Wilson, Founder and Chairman, Cryptoloc Ransomware is on the rise, and it’s not slowing down. Cryptoloc founder and chairman Jamie Wilson explains the perfect storm of conditions that […]
French intel found flaws in Bluetooth Core and Mesh specs
Attackers could exploit a set of Bluetooth vulnerabilities, affecting the Core and Mesh Profile specifications, to conduct man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks. Researchers at the french intelligence agency ANSSI discovered multiple flaws in the Bluetooth Core and Mesh […]
Executive Protection Needs to Include Digital
By Dr. Chris Pierson, Founder & CEO, BlackCloak Major firms and corporations already know full well the risks and dangers inherent to their executives’ security. Executive Protection is an established […]
How to Prevent Ransomware Attacks On Industrial Networks
Insights into Ransomware attacks, how they spread in industrial networks, and how to prevent them from happening. By Michael Yehoshua, VP of Global Marketing, SCADAfence Since the outbreaks of Wannacry & […]
Humans Just Can’t Cut it Anymore
By Peter Stephenson, PhD, CISSP (lifetime), FAAFS (2015-16) Let’s face it, folks… when it comes to interdicting and stopping a cyberattack we’re tortoises racing the hare. When the adversary unleashes […]