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U.S. Agencies Warn of Ransomware Attacks on K-12 Education Sector

K-12 institutions should take action now to protect against an increase in ransomware as the school year begins, U.S. agencies say.

September 7, 2022 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

U.S. agencies are warning of an increase in ransomware attacks against the K-12 education sector, singling out a relatively new threat actor that has been observed disproportionately targeting school systems as they welcome students back into their buildings. That threat actor is Vice Society—an intrusion, exfiltration and extortion hacking group that first appeared in summer […]

June 2022 Patch Tuesday: Follina Included in 60 Microsoft Bug Patches

Microsoft’s June 2022 Patch Tuesday release includes a fix for Follina and 59 other bugs in Windows and Windows components.

June 14, 2022 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Despite issuing patches for just 60 security bugs this month, Microsoft’s June Patch Tuesday release include a fix for Follina, a dangerous remote code execution zero-day in the company’s Windows Support Diagnostic Tool that is being actively exploited. According to Microsoft, attackers who successfully exploit the bug, tracked as CVE-2022-30190, can run arbitrary code with […]

SimSpace Unveils Expanded Open Cyber Range Platform at RSA Conference

June 6, 2022 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

Platform to Help Validate Cybersecurity Mesh Architecture with expanded environments for Cloud, Critical Infrastructure, and OT/IoT; Increased Coverage of Security Vendors; New Automated Attack Scenarios and Training Options SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–SimSpace, the leading cybersecurity risk management platform company, today unveiled new updates to its award-winning cyber range to deliver the most comprehensive open platform for […]

Make Sure These 15 Most Exploited Vulnerabilities From 2021 Are Patched

IT pros should be familiar with some of these 15 most exploited 2021 bugs, but continued targeting of them suggests more organizations need to patch.

April 28, 2022 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), along with a coalition of U.S. and foreign security and law enforcement agencies, have released a list of the 15 most exploited vulnerabilities from 2021, calling on both public and private organizations to ensure these critical security bugs are mitigated and systems patched. The list, published in a […]

The Key Components of a Vulnerability Scanning & Management Program

Identifying security bugs and developing a robust vulnerability scanning and patching program should be a core duty of any IT team.

March 31, 2022 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

With thousands of new software vulnerabilities to protect against each year, it is critical that organizations develop a robust vulnerability management program that can quickly identify and remediate vulnerabilities in IT environments. Issues like Log4Shell, PrintNightmare, ProxyLogon and dozens of other critical vulnerabilities in widely used systems have kept IT departments up at night as […]

February Patch Tuesday: No Critical Bugs, But A Handful To Prioritize

February Patch Tuesday fixes just 51 Microsoft vulnerabilities, none of which are rated as Critical. However, a few are still dangerous.

February 8, 2022 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Microsoft has released just 51 new patches to address vulnerabilities this month, but February’s Patch Tuesday comes with an anomaly: there are no critical-rated patches. The number of security patches is unusually low, as the company last month issued fixes for over 120 security bugs and patched 67 vulnerabilities in December. However, the most unusual […]

The Top Vulnerabilities of 2021

Cybersecurity firm Tenable rounds up the top vulnerabilities in 2021, noting increases in ransomware attacks, data breaches, zero-days and more.

January 31, 2022 TD Staff Leave a Comment

Tenable’s 2021 Threat landscape retrospective report looks back at year unlike any other. Dozens of groups, like REvil, Conti, DarkSide and more, dominated the headlines and continued to wreak havoc across a wide range of industries. Tenable’s research team noted a surge in ransomware attacks, data breaches, zero-days and much more in 2021. Top vulnerabilities […]

Why Active Directory Attack Paths are the Secret to Many Successful Ransomware Attacks

By gaining control of an organization’s AD, the adversary seizes the power to deploy ransomware to all systems through several mechanisms.

January 19, 2022 Andy Robbins Leave a Comment

It’s no secret that most major enterprises across the globe use Microsoft Active Directory (AD) for identity and access management. This ubiquity is also one of the predominant reasons AD is such a popular and attractive target for adversaries. What remains a mystery to many enterprises, however, is how adversaries – including the malicious actors […]

Semperis Enhances Hybrid Active Directory Security with New Offering for Azure AD

October 5, 2021 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

Latest release of Directory Services Protector (DSP) provides a complete picture of risk exposure in hybrid environments and monitors for cyber threats in both Active Directory and Azure Active Directory in one view. HOBOKEN, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#AD—Semperis, the pioneer of identity-driven cyber resilience for enterprises, today announced the preview release of Directory Services Protector 3.6, which […]

Apply These Microsoft, Apple, Google and Adobe Patches Now

Big tech firms patch more than 130 vulnerabilities that could allow hackers to spy and take control of computer systems.

September 15, 2021 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Microsoft, Google, Apple and Adobe issued dozens of security patches this week, including some that fixed critical zero-day vulnerabilities. Chief among them are fixes to the Microsoft MSHTML remote code execution vulnerability that is being actively exploited, a patch that fixes an iOS bug in CoreGraphics that could allow remote code execution that is under […]