Top 3 Ransomware Operators by Income
A new ransomware payment tracking site aims to make financial transactions to ransomware operators more transparent, see who’s on top.
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Patch the Print Nightmare Vulnerabilities Now
Much has been made of the vulnerabilities recently discovered in the Windows Print Spooler Service and Microsoft’s patches for the issue. Now, systems that remain unpatched are being attacked by ransomware operators. In a new report, Cisco Talos says a threat actor is exploiting those vulnerabilities – dubbed PrintNightmare – to spread laterally across a […]
IT Departments Are Investing More In Cybersecurity Skills, Report Finds
IT teams across the globe faced unprecedented challenges in 2020 and 2021, and cybersecurity concerns are at – or near – the top of the list, leading to IT departments investing more in security, according to a new report from Sophos. The cybersecurity giant polled 5,400 IT managers across 30 countries and found that workloads […]
5 Critical Criteria for Mission Critical Spaces
System operators within an electric utility control room are responsible for balancing and maintaining the grid and reliably providing critical resources to millions of people over a wide area. Failures in the electric grid, including downtime or malfunction, could mean life or death. In the mission-critical space of control rooms, systems need to be functioning […]
Senate Passes Infrastructure Bill Allocating $1.9 billion For Cybersecurity
The Senate has passed a bipartisan infrastructure bill allocating $1.9 billion towards securing critical infrastructure against attacks.
44 Vulnerabilities Addressed in Microsoft’s August Security Release
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 […]
The Rise of Triple Extortion Ransomware
If you aren’t already familiar with ransomware, the increasing frequency of such attacks and the level of sophistication with which cybercriminal gangs deploy the malware, then you need to be paying more attention. The prevailing trend over the course of the last few years is the rise of double extortion, which means that the purpose […]
What DarkSides’ Rebranding Means for IT
Cyber experts believe cyber criminal gang, DarkSide has rebranded causing what some call a giant “game of whack-a-mole.”
Stop Making Passwords Too Complex
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 […]
How To Boost Students’ Self-Efficacy With EdTech
To create better learning experiences, faculty should take a student-centered perspective when it comes to students’ digital self-efficacy.
