When it comes to preventing a cyberattack on your organization, you want to make sure you’re working on the workforce as much as the network.
In a study conducted by Mimecast and HIMSS Analytics, researchers found that 60 out of 76 senior IT professionals at healthcare facilities had cyberattacks this year.
Each week TechDecisions rounds up the cyberattacks and hacks that occurred in that week. Here are some of the most devastating and interesting in 2017.
If you’ve been on the internet in the past few weeks you’ve heard about the large scale cyberattack on DNS provider Dyn. On October 21, major websites including Twitter, Amazon, Spotify, Reddit, PayPal, Airbnb, Wired, Pinterest, and more experienced outages. The common thread? Each of these sites used Dyn as their upstream DNS provider. A […]
Cyber-physical systems security provider TXOne Networks recently published its 2023 annual report detailing a growing range of cybersecurity issues facing global industries. The Crisis of Convergence: OT/ICS Cybersecurity 2023, which is available for free download, “details diverse intensifying challenges, including growth in attacks via Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) models, exploitation of supply chain vulnerabilities and prevalence of state-sponsored hackers and […]
Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky says it is investigating “previously unknown” malware targeting the company’s own employee’s Apple iOS devices that can compromise devices via the iMessage service with an attachment without any user interaction. According to Kaspersky, the message triggers a vulnerability that leads to code execution, and the code within the exploit downloads several subsequent […]
CrowdStrike is launching a private customer preview of its own generative AI solution which it calls Charlotte AI, essentially an AI assistant for the company’s CrowdStrike Falcon platform designed to help any user of the platform become a power user. According to the Austin, Texas-based cybersecurity giant, Charlotte AI lets customers ask natural language questions […]
Microsoft is sounding the alarm on a group it calls Volt Typhoon, another state-sponsored hacking group based in China that is targeting critical infrastructure organizations and leveraging living-off-the-land techniques and proxying its network traffic through compromised network edge devices and routers to evade detection. Microsoft says Volt Typhoon is pursing development of capabilities that could […]
Dell is aiming to provide an end-to-end zero trust security solution with Project Fort Zero, a new fully configured solution designed to lower the barrier to entry for zero trust adoption. According to Dell, the Project Fort Zero solution builds on the momentum of the company’s Zero Trust Center of Excellence and partner ecosystem to […]
Open-source password manager Bitwarden is launching the general availability of Bitwarden Passwordless.dev, a developer toolkit with an API for integrating FIDO2 WebAuthn-based passkeys into consumer websites and enterprise applications. Bitwarden’s release comes as tech firms are investing heavily in passwordless technologies in the hopes that it will essentially eliminate a major vector of cyberattacks and […]
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