Who Got Hacked This Week? October 19 Edition
What types of cyberattacks were carried out this week, October 19, 2020? Read on to find out about the latest cyberattacks and who got hacked this week.
Blogs
Mark Cuban Says Employers Need to Take Care of Employees’ Mental Health
The COVID-19 pandemic is hard on all of us — business owners, managers, employees and the like. The crisis is not only hurting your organization, IT department and your customers, but its also having a more profound effect on the people that devote their lives to you and the vision you have for your company. […]
Microsoft Releases Azure Defender for IoT in Public Preview
Azure Defender for IoT, Microsoft’s cybersecurity solution for IoT and OT devices, has entered public preview to help protect industrial and critical infrastructure that depend on those devices. The new solution incorporates agentless, IOT/OT-aware behavioral analytics from Microsoft’s recent acquisition of CyberX. It addresses these risks by discovering unmanaged assets, identifying vulnerabilities and continuously monitoring […]
This Tiny Smart Home is Both High-Tech and Off-Grid
Can high-tech lifestyles go off-the-grid? Yes, according to iOhouse, which is debuting its new 645-square-foot “Space” portable home. Billed as the “perfect fusion of technology and design,” the $413,000 home is completely self-contained. Solar panels and a generator provide the power for electricity, heat and WiFi. It also has its own water and waste management […]
New Classroom Audio Enables Hybrid Learning at Duquesne University
Duquesne University recently outfitted more than 40 classrooms with Nureva HDL300 audio conferencing systems and an additional 32 systems have been ordered. SMARTSolution Technologies, an authorized Nureva dealer, supported the university in its search for an audio conferencing system to help students learn in a hybrid environment, where some students are in the classroom and others are participating in […]
Microsoft Disrupts Trickbot Ahead of U.S. Elections
Microsoft and an international group of tech industry organizations disrupted the botnet Trickbot, one of the world’s most prolific distributors of malware and ransomware. Through a court order from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia and technical action in coordination with a group of technology organizations, Microsoft helped cut off key […]
CISA: Hackers Using Vulnerability Chaining to Target Government Networks
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, along with the FBI, have released a joint advisory warning that threat actors are actively exploiting vulnerabilities as they target government networks. The joint advisory, released last Friday, says these recent attacks are directed at federal, state, local, tribal and territorial government networks, and there is some risk […]
Cybersecurity Is No Longer an Option
As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, cybercriminals and nation states are crafting their attacks to take advantage of the news cycle and the weakened defenses of a dispersed workforce. This uptick in cyberattacks is coupled with a hacking community that is growing more advanced by the day, with new tools and elegant attack methods that […]
Safeguarding Your Mobile Workforce Data Security in 4 Steps
Research firm Gartner has found that, after the COVID-19 pandemic subsides, businesses will face a new kind of challenge: managing their mobile workforce data security. According to Gartner survey, 82% of business leaders plan to let employees continue to work from home in at least some capacity, while 47% plan to allow employees to do so […]
Slack CEO: Stories, Instant Audio Coming To Slack By End Of 2020
Slack is reportedly adding new features to its platform that will introduce social media-like stories and push-to-talk audio by the end of the calendar year. In an interview with The Verge, Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield detailed some of the new features the platform wants to bring to its users to help them better acclimate to […]
