Ransomware attacks almost doubled in 2021, rising to 92.7% year-over-year, according to NCC Group, a global cyber security and risk mitigation firm. The firm’s 2021 Annual Threat Monitor shows a gradual but noticeable rise in ransomware attacks since the pandemic began. Ransomware accounted for 65.38% of all incidents dealt with by NCC’s global cyber response […]
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has released a litany of free security tools and resources designed to help organizations advance its security capabilities, including widely used open-source tools and services offered by private and public sector organizations. The catalog of free resources comes amid rising geopolitical tensions that both government agencies and software […]
More than two-thirds were infected with ransomware from a direct email payload, and 60% of those victims paid the ransom, according to new research from cybersecurity and compliance firm Proofpoint. The company’s 2022 State of the Phish Report, the results of a survey of 600 IT professionals and 3,500 workers, reveals that phishing and other […]
Sponsored Content With more and more devices being deployed on the network, IT professionals can now expect to manage everything from endpoints, collaboration tools and firewalls and now to mass communication systems. Gone are the days of hard-wired mass communications systems that require infrastructure separate from existing IT infrastructures, and that is bringing even more technology under […]
Microsoft is positioning itself as a partner in the U.S. government’s push toward a Zero Trust architecture, including the publication of resources designed to help organizations migrate to the cloud and adopt a Zero Trust framework and the release of Azure capabilities to help secure cloud environments. In a new blog, Microsoft outlined several resources, […]
Like Windows 11 Home edition, Windows 11 Pro edition will require an internet connection and Microsoft account during the initial device setup, Microsoft says. The news came in a blog announcing features and fixes in Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22557 released to the Dev Channel. The requirement will likely be required as part of […]
Researchers at JFrog Security have released details of a remote code execution vulnerability with the popular NoSQL database, Apache Cassandra. The popular database is used by enterprises such as Netflix, Twitter, Constast Contact, Cisco, Reddit and many more. The open source database is also used by devOps and cloud-native development circles and companies that provide […]
As the world waits to see what unfolds in Ukraine, cybersecurity professionals are urging western governments and organizations to be prepared for serious cyberattacks coming from Russia and its allies. These warnings come from the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) as well as private sector cybersecurity software providers like Mandiant that have raised […]
Microsoft has announced the public preview of Azure Active Directory certificate-based authentication across its commercial and U.S. government clouds, a response to President Joe Biden’s executive order on cybersecurity designed to push the government to zero trust. The offering is designed to help government customers meet phishing-resistant MFA using the PIV/CAC cards, and it can […]
VMware is urging customers to immediately patch vulnerabilities in ESXi, Workstation, Fusion and Cloud Foundation running in on-premises or co-located settings. The patches fix a total of five CVEs in those products that were disclosed during the Tianfu Cup, a Chinese security event that VMware participates in. According to the company, the flaws were reported […]
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