Cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike has released a free incident response tracker to help IT and security teams document indicators of compromise, compromised systems and a timeline of important events during its forensic analysis of an attack. The company calls the tool the CrowdStrike Incident Response Tracker, which is essentially an organized spreadsheet to help teams document […]
Malware continues to grow along with other malicious payload delivered by cloud applications, according to Netskope’s latest Cloud and Threat Spotlight for January 2022. The SASE provider analyzed year-over-year data highlighting that attacker are achieving more success delivering malware payloads to their victims. The research showed more than two-thirds of malware data came from cloud […]
According to new data from web infrastructure and security firm Cloudflare, the amount of DDoS attacks being layered with a ransom demand are increasing significantly. The company’s DDoS Attack Trends report for the fourth quarter of 2021 revealed a ransom DDoS attack increase of 29% for the year and a whopping 175% for the quarter. […]
Most of the time, we at My TechDecisions are hard at work bringing you tech professionals news and insights that can help you do your job managing the technology at your organization. However, we also recognize that working in IT can be stressful—especially over the last two years with the migration to remote work and […]
Honeywell and Acalvio Technologies have launched a new solution designed to detect known and unknown (zero-day) attacks across the operational technology (OT) environments in commercial buildings. Honeywell Threat Defense Platform (HTDP) powered by Acalvio uses “sophisticated active defense – featuring autonomous deception tactics to outsmart attackers,” providing “high fidelity threat detection,” according to the company. […]
Microsoft has released patches for nearly 100 vulnerabilities this Patch Tuesday, including three Exchange remote code execution bugs and an HTTP protocol stack remote code execution vulnerability. Despite the unusually large amount of patches to start the year, none are listed as being actively exploited. However, six are listed as publicly known at the time […]
Not that anyone assumed differently, but cyberattacks proliferated the internet in 2021, with researchers noting 50% more attacks per week on corporate networks compared to 2020, according to cybersecurity firm Check Point. The 2021 data comes just a few months after the company reported in October a 40% increase in cyberattacks globally. However, the fourth […]
The IT and cybersecurity community sounded the alarm last month when researchers discovered vulnerabilities in Log4j, the ubiquitous java logger used by a wide range of tech products. The tool has been patched and vendors are quickly deploying its own patches for products that use the tool, but the situation is not getting much better […]
Just days into the new year and the cybersecurity community is already playing catch up thanks to the recent Log4j vulnerability which illuminated major setbacks in how organizations deal with its own software and open-source packages on which its relies on. In particular, organizations have been caught off guard in auditing its own systems, giving […]
Almost two-thirds (60%) of IT decision makers believe ransomware threats should be prioritized at the same level as terrorism, according to latest research by Venafi, a Salt Lake City-based provider of machine identify management solutions. The research comes after the U.S Department of Justice raised the threat level of ransomware following the Colonial Pipeline attack […]
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