Microsoft’s monthly Patch Tuesday release for April includes fixes for a myriad of vulnerabilities, including four in Exchange Server discovered by the U.S. National Security Agency. According to the software giant’s Security Response Center, the updates include over 100 vulnerabilities that fix things ranging from Exchange Server vulnerabilities to flaws in Microsoft Office products, Microsoft […]
Distance learning helped students and educators connect during the pandemic-induced lockdown, but returning to the physical school buildings with devices that have been home for more than a year could introduce significant cyber risk to the organization at a time when schools are an attractive target of cybercriminals. When schools closed their buildings last and […]
Microsoft says it has been tracking a new attack method in which malicious actors are using websites’ contact forms to deliver malware to enterprise email addresses under the false pretenses of legal action. The malware being delivered is IceID, which is used to steal information, according to a Microsoft 365 Defender Threat Intelligence Team blog […]
Microsoft Corp’s networking site says some LinkedIn dat has been made available for sale. As a recent Reuters report says: The incident was not a data breach and no private member account data from the platform was included, LinkedIn said in a blog post bit.ly/3uB4nEy on Thursday, adding that the information on sale is a collection of […]
The technology industry has watched social media giant Facebook go through some alarming experiences and decisions. There was the 2018 security breach (and subsequent ones); the announcement that they’d been storing user passwords in plaintext without hashes or salts; and a slew of privacy policy issues. The latest piece of Facebook news involves a lawsuit […]
Remote work and a more dispersed workforce is widening the attack surface for organizations and adversely impacting cybersecurity, according to a new report from Verizon. The telecommunications giant on Tuesday released its Mobile Security Index, which found that 49% of organizations surveyed said changes to remote working practices made during the pandemic-induced lockdown negatively impacted […]
Unstructured data — the data that doesn’t have any predefined data models — can be difficult for an enterprise to locate and digest. Emails, text files, photos, videos, call transcripts, and business chat apps all congregate a ton of data, which ends up just floating around in the metaphorical ether. But what’s floating around might […]
The FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency are warning of sophisticated malicious actors exploiting multiple older vulnerabilities in Fortinet FortiOS to gain access to customer networks. The advisory, issued last week, warns that advanced persistent threat (APT) actors are scanning devices for three different vulnerabilities to infiltrate the networks of government, commercial and technology service […]
Over the past year, we’ve seen how important integrated solutions are to a quality work experience. The massive migration to remote work forced integrators to quickly learn how to best connect their systems to IT stacks so that they could be monitored and managed along with the rest of the technology in the organization’s portfolio. […]
As COVID-19 struck suddenly across the globe last year, work-from-home became a new norm for almost every organization. Likewise, cybersecurity operations also faced tremendous new challenges. Now that businesses are slowly transitioning back to on-premises job models, a considerable percentage of employees is still expected to work from home on a rolling basis to maintain […]
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