Threat actors are becoming more skilled and attacks are increasing in level of sophistication, and the cybersecurity workforce can’t keep pace, according to a new study from the Information Systems Security Association. The study, conducted by ISSA and analyst firm Enterprise Strategy Group, found that organizations largely are not investing enough into their cybersecurity workforce […]
According to a report by IBM security, data breaches hit record highs in terms of cost due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Even before the pandemic, data breaches were becoming a more frequent problem for organizations, but due to multiple factors, they became more problematic in the past year. IBM Security hired Ponemon Institute to compile […]
Coveware reports Q2 ransom payments amounts are declining as ransomware becomes a national security priority.
As organizations look for new ways to deal with the growing threat of cyberattacks, Zero Trust is increasingly becoming mainstream among IT and cybersecurity professionals, according to a new report from Microsoft. The IT giant has released its Zero Trust Adoption Report 2021 in which more than 1,200 security decision-makers were surveyed about their Zero […]
IT infrastructure and cyber security considerations for protecting power devices from potential cyberattacks.
Departing employees, ahead of their departure, pose an increase in cloud app security risk as they upload files to personal apps.
Eight months after the Russia-led highly sophisticated hacking campaign leveraging the SolarWinds Orion platform, the company has released its annual IT Trends Report, this one highlighting how IT professionals perceive their organization’s cyber risk management and mitigation after a tumultuous year. The report touches on everything from external threats, internal threats, remote work policies and […]
When a vendor or security researcher discloses a vulnerability in an IT product, organizations should be quick to apply the patch or implement a secure workaround to protect networks from bad actors that are quick to exploit that vulnerability. When those vulnerabilities are in widely used products from popular vendors like Citrix, Pulse, Microsoft and […]
Cybercriminals will look for any way into your networks, including phishing, brute force, supply chain attacks and software vulnerabilities, with the latter being especially dangerous since they’re built into software that we’re supposed to trust. They can be easy to find and exploit, allowing bad actors to take over an entire system, exfiltrate data and […]
Microsoft has shared instructions on how to mitigate PetitPotam, an NT Lan Manager (NTLM) relay attack used against Windows domain controllers or servers. The company did not say if the vulnerability is currently being exploited. Microsoft called it a “classic” NTLM relay attack that allows an attacker to take over a domain controller or other […]
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