The Log4J vulnerability discovered late last week continues to make lives extremely busy for IT and cybersecurity professionals and software vendors rush to investigate if their products are vulnerable and push patches out to customers while those customers investigate the hundreds of apps their organization uses to determine how exposed they are. The widely used […]
Security researchers have discovered a new easy-to-exploit zero-day vulnerability in the ubiquitous Java logging library Apache Log4j 2 that could give attackers the ability to execute unauthenticated remote code execution. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, along with dozens of cybersecurity providers, have issued alerts and advisories of the vulnerability, CVE-2021-44228, which they warn […]
According to a new Microsoft study in conjunction with the Ponemon Institute, the Internet of Things and new innovations in operational technology is becoming critical for business, but simultaneously increasing an organization’s cyber risk. Researchers surveyed more than 600 IT, cybersecurity and OT security experts across the U.S., and found that many organizations are making […]
The effects of the pandemic, leading to what is being called The Great Resignation, is having a severe impact on the global workforce as companies report difficulties finding and retaining talent. However, the same issue is also having an impact on the cybersecurity posture of these organizations, according to a new report from human-centric security […]
IT professionals with a year or more of on-the- job experience working with Linux servers are invited to serve as beta testers for a new version of the CompTIA Linux+ certification exam, CompTIA, the nonprofit association for the IT industry and workforce. CompTIA Linux+ certification is intended for early career IT professionals who support Linux systems in […]
CrowdStrike Inc., a provider of cloud-based endpoint and workload protection, announced the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has selected it as one of the major platforms to support the Executive Order endpoint detection and response initiative. CrowdStrike brings cloud-native AI-driven power of the CrowdStrike Falcon platform to secure critical endpoints and workloads for the […]
Cybercrime has reached a new peak with the onslaught of ransomware attacks and data breaches in the last several months. As organizations continue to support distributed and remote work, it’s vital IT leaders and tech pros are appropriately addressing risk and ensuring security policies and procedures are up to par. SolarWinds recently revealed findings of […]
Password security and good credential hygiene are some of the most important components of any organization’s cybersecurity posture, but many are still engaging in risky password practices that threaten their organization’s network security. That’s even true for IT, as 92% of IT decision makers reported reusing passwords across multiple sites—even as cyberattacks escalate due to […]
If you were having doubts about the efficacy of a zero trust approach to cybersecurity, recently released research suggests that such a network architecture is expected to double the efficacy of cybersecurity products. The research, conducted by Osterman Research on behalf of cybersecurity firm Symmetry Systems, found from a survey of 125 IT and security […]
Multinational furniture maker Ikea announced it is investigating a cyber incident which took place on its Microsoft Exchange server. Malicious emails were sent around the company appearing to be a genuine “reply all” to an email chain, according to documents shared with BleepingComputer. No customer data was compromised as result of the incident. Other Ikea […]
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