Eight months after the Russia-led highly sophisticated hacking campaign leveraging the SolarWinds Orion platform, the company has released its annual IT Trends Report, this one highlighting how IT professionals perceive their organization’s cyber risk management and mitigation after a tumultuous year. The report touches on everything from external threats, internal threats, remote work policies and […]
When a vendor or security researcher discloses a vulnerability in an IT product, organizations should be quick to apply the patch or implement a secure workaround to protect networks from bad actors that are quick to exploit that vulnerability. When those vulnerabilities are in widely used products from popular vendors like Citrix, Pulse, Microsoft and […]
Cybercriminals will look for any way into your networks, including phishing, brute force, supply chain attacks and software vulnerabilities, with the latter being especially dangerous since they’re built into software that we’re supposed to trust. They can be easy to find and exploit, allowing bad actors to take over an entire system, exfiltrate data and […]
Microsoft has shared instructions on how to mitigate PetitPotam, an NT Lan Manager (NTLM) relay attack used against Windows domain controllers or servers. The company did not say if the vulnerability is currently being exploited. Microsoft called it a “classic” NTLM relay attack that allows an attacker to take over a domain controller or other […]
When your computer systems are infected with ransomware, you may think you only have two options: pay to (maybe) have all your data decrypted by the hackers or start the long and arduous process of restoring everything. Those two options have their pros and cons. Paying the ransom can be a quick fix, but it’s […]
Two-factor authentication or multi-factor authentication – although not the end all be all to account security – have emerged as an effective way of safeguarding sensitive accounts since an attacker would need access to an email address, mobile phone or authenticator app in addition to your credentials. With several notable high-profile Twitter accounts being compromised […]
Kaseya, the IT management software company that was leveraged by the REvil ransomware gang to infect around 1,500 organizations with data encrypting malware, says it has obtained a universal decryption key for victims of the July 4 weekend hack. Now, organizations hit by this attack can recover their data without having to rebuild their systems […]
A software configuration update in Akamai Edge DNS – not a cyberattack – took down a large chunk of the internet today.
The last year and a half have been among the busiest ever for IT and cybersecurity professionals, with ransomware attacks making up a huge portion of high-profile cyberattacks. The data-encrypting attacks have hit every industry, from manufacturing to infrastructure and retail. However, one critical sector has been hit the hardest: education. According to Sophos’ “The […]
As if the list of software vulnerabilities and cybersecurity threats to mitigate isn’t long enough already, IT professionals now need to be aware of newly disclosed vulnerabilities in Windows and Linux operating systems that could give local attackers elevated privileges. Both vulnerabilities were disclosed Tuesday and come as IT professionals grapple with keeping systems up […]
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