It took me just a few months into writing about the world of IT to realize that I was the annoying end user that admins love to complain about. I looked for ways to communicate with my organization’s IT professionals outside of the preferred channels, I asked for urgency with every request, used my work […]
CISOs must be able to clearly communicate cybersecurity to the board in today’s evolving business and tech landscape.
CISA has added the use of single-factor authentication for remote or admin access to its list of “Bad Practices.”
Microsoft is warning thousands of its customers of a vulnerability in Azure that left customer data – including for several Fortune 500 companies – completely exposed. Cloud security company Wiz said in lengthy and detailed post that the flaw – dubbed Chaos DB – is in Azure’s Cosmos DB database. A successful exploit would give […]
Tech companies pledge to invest in new cyber security initiatives, such as improving security through tech supply chains at White House meeting.
System administrators and other IT professionals are urged to apply Microsoft’s May 2021 security updates as threat actors are actively exploiting a previous vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange Server. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said over the weekend that multiple threat actors are exploiting three ProxyShell Vulnerabilities, which could allow an attacker to install […]
A newly discovered vulnerability that could affect 83 million IoT devices allows an attacker to listen to live audio, watch real-time video data, compromise device credentials for further attacks or remotely control devices, according to new research. According to Mandiant, a subsidiary of cybersecurity firm FireEye, the IoT vulnerability is in the ThroughTek Kalay network, […]
System administrators, IT professionals and cybersecurity experts have been sounding the alarm over ransomware and the increasing frequency of attacks over the last few months, and their message is now beginning to be picked up by mainstream media. Ransomware is now rising to a national security level thanks to recent attacks against Colonial Pipeline, JBS […]
Microsoft’s August security patches include fixes for 44 vulnerabilities, including three zero days and one that is being actively exploited. The most important patches fix issues related to the Windows Print Spooler remote code execution vulnerability and the Windows LSA spoofing vulnerability and an actively exploited vulnerability in Windows Update Medic Service. Because of the […]
If you’re still requiring users to create complex passwords with a combination of letters, numbers and symbols, think again, says the U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre. The NCSC, the U.K. counterpart to the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), maintains that complexity requirements and making users regularly change passwords is actually less secure than […]
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