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What You Need To Know About The Log4j Vulnerability

We asked Paul Ducklin, principal research scientist at cybersecurity firm Sophos, about what the Log4j vulnerability means for IT pros.

December 13, 2021 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

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 […]

Global Semiconductor Intellectual Property Market Research Report 2021 – ResearchAndMarkets.com

December 10, 2021 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The “Semiconductor Intellectual Property Global Market Report 2021: COVID-19 Growth and Change” report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering. The global semiconductor intellectual property (IP) market is expected to grow from $4.60 billion in 2020 to $5.06 billion in 2021 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 10%. The market is expected to […]

Here’s What The SolarWinds Hackers Have Been Up To

Mandiant offers new details of how the hackers behind the SolarWinds compromise hackers are further compromising the IT supply chain.

December 7, 2021 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

It has been nearly a year since a coalition of IT and cybersecurity providers discovered a highly sophisticated Russian-aligned hacking campaign that most notably leveraged IT management software from SolarWinds to conduct espionage on U.S. agencies, tech companies and other high-value organizations. The IT industry has learned a lot since then, including the increasing skill […]

Ikea Investigates Into Internal Email Hijacking Incident

Ikea is investigating into an internal email hijacking incident on its Microsoft Exchange Server, where victims received a genuine looking "reply all" email.

December 2, 2021 Alyssa Borelli Leave a Comment

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 […]

Report: Remote Work Makes Patch Management Much Harder

Patching remote endpoints takes 2.5 times longer, and resolving IT support requests takes twice as long for remote employees, survey finds.

November 30, 2021 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

In a cybersecurity environment in which bad actors pounce on published software vulnerabilities, patching those flaws as quickly as possible is critical. That becomes even more important with a distributed workforce that can be difficult for IT to manage. However, over 70% of organizations lack automated patch management for at least some systems, and 62% […]

Introducing ThreatConnect 6.4 – Improving Threat Intelligence Processes and SOC Metrics

November 29, 2021 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

Latest release allows for threat intelligence analysts to easily build and enhance their threat library and understand threats with deeper global context ARLINGTON, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–ThreatConnect Inc.®, the leader in enabling a risk led and intelligence-driven security is announcing ThreatConnect 6.4, which introduces new capabilities that allow security operations and cyber threat intelligence (CTI) analysts to […]

Study: More Than Half of SMBs Experienced Cyberattacks Last Year

Devolutions survey finds 72% of SMBs are more concerned about cybersecurity than they were a year ago, but they still have a long way to go.

November 17, 2021 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Although the pandemic forced many small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to scale back their operations—and in some cases close all together—those businesses saw an increase in cyberattacks, according to a new study from remote access and enterprise password management solutions provider Devolutions. The company’s survey of 440 IT professionals and tech decision makers at organizations […]

Check Point Survey: CISOs’ Confidence In Security Dwindles As Cyber Attacks Increase

Check Point's global survey of CISOs indicates confidence in security goes down as the number of cyber attacks increases.

November 3, 2021 Alyssa Borelli Leave a Comment

CISOs are starting to express dwindling confidence in protecting all attack vectors, according to research by Check Point. Check Point’s global survey of CISOs indicated “CISOs’ confidence in security goes down as the number of cyber attacks, assets to secure, and the number of vendors’ solutions used in their environment increases.” At least 92% of […]

InQuest Releases Data Demonstrating the Security Gap in the Major Cloud Email Providers

October 26, 2021 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

AUSTIN, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#cybersecurity–InQuest (www.inquest.net), a leading provider of email security and emerging threat prevention services and solutions, announced today the general availability of the ongoing test data leveraged by InQuest Labs to assess and evaluate the security efficacy of the leading cloud-based email providers, Google Workspace (GSuite) and Microsoft Office 365 (O365). InQuest has published […]

Google: Watch Out For This Iranian Threat Actor

Google says an Iranian hacking group is using novel techniques to steal credentials of high-value targets in government sectors.

October 15, 2021 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Google says its Threat Analysis Group of cybersecurity researchers is tracking new activity of an Iranian hacking group that uses novel techniques to steal credentials of high value targets in government and other related sectors. In a new blog, Google says it has sent over 50,000 security warnings to its customers this year, an increase […]