The appeal of cloud computing is financial: rather than buying infrastructure, rent it. The problem with this financial solution is it distracts the cloud user from the responsibilities that remain after moving the applications out of the enterprise – responsibilities called systems management comprise IT Infrastructure and Operations, or I&O. This article reviews some of […]
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 […]
Macro-based malware, an attack that once fell out of favor with hackers is possibly resurging, according to experts.
A new ransomware payment tracking site aims to make financial transactions to ransomware operators more transparent, see who’s on top.
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 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 […]
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 […]
The Senate has passed a bipartisan infrastructure bill allocating $1.9 billion towards securing critical infrastructure against attacks.
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 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 […]
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