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…
Why Ransomware is Only a Symptom of a Larger Problem
While ransomware is arguably the greatest current security threat to organizations, its rise has distracted us from the true issue at hand: extortion-based crimes. By Jeff Palatt, Vice President, Technical…
Our Cyber Defenses Need to Be Battle-Tested to Withstand Future Threats
By Hugo Sanchez, Founder and CEO of rThreat Just a few weeks ago, the FBI released a statement confirming that their server was hacked over the weekend, resulting in thousands…
Why Americans Joined Europe in Not Paying Security Ransoms
By Lee Pitman, Global Head of Response Services, BreachQuest As we close out 2021, the biggest trend in the security and insurance space has to be the heightened regulatory scrutiny…
Crooks injects e-skimmers in random WordPress plugins of e-stores
Threat actors are injecting credit card swipers into random plugins of e-commerce WordPress sites, Sucuri researchers warn. Sucuri researchers are warning of threat actors injecting credit card swipers into random…
Why The Integration of Netops And Secops Is Here To Stay
By Eileen Haggerty, Sr. Director, Enterprise Business Operations, NETSCOUT The pandemic accelerated digital transformation and increased organizations’ reliance on cloud services, VPNs, and other solutions designed to support remote work….
Sophisticated Android spyware PhoneSpy infected thousands of Korean phones
South Korean users have been targeted with a new sophisticated Android spyware, tracked as PhoneSpy, as part of an ongoing campaign. Researchers from Zimperium zLabs uncovered an ongoing campaign aimed…
The Brutal Reality of Brute Force Attacks And How To Defend Against Them
By John Nowotny, Customer Success Engineer, Exabeam Russian cyberattacks have seemingly become the new normal with the recent spate of high-profile events at SolarWinds, Colonial Pipeline and Kaseya putting U.S….
5 Steps to Protect Your Organization from the Next Ransomware Attack
By Paul Kohler, CTO, S3 We have witnessed the largest ransomware attacks in history in the first half of 2021 alone. From SolarWinds to CNA Financial Corp, Colonial Pipeline, JBS…
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…
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…
Avaddon ransomware gang shuts down their operations and releases decryption keys
The Avaddon ransomware gang has shut down its operations and released the decryption keys to allow victims to recover their files for free. Good news for the victims of the…