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Illinois Valley Community College Servers Shut Down by Ransomware

Servers professors are using for distance learning during the coronavirus crisis were not affected when IVCC college servers were shut down by ransomware.

May 1, 2023 Amy Rock Leave a Comment

Illinois Valley Community College’s servers were shut down by a ransomware attack, affecting the school’s email servers, website, and administrative software, reports Northern Public Radio. The servers have been down since April 24. The attack was discovered Friday when the email system and website stopped functioning properly, according to WCJS News. An IT investigation determined the network had […]

VMware Launches New Solutions for Multi-Cloud Security

New VMware security tools and services are designed to help secure multi-cloud and hybrid work environments.

April 24, 2023 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

VMware is launching new security capabilities to help bring strong lateral security across multi-cloud environments to give organizations more visibility into threats, including new IT phishing protections and IT management features in Workspace ONE, new features for Carbon Black, an enhanced firewall service, and more. DPU-based Acceleration Highlighting the company’s announcement on the first day […]

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Proofpoint Unveils New Innovations to Combat Increasingly Common Threats

Proofpoint's latest solutions empower organizations to stop malicious email attacks, detect and prevent identity-based threats and more.

April 24, 2023 TD Staff Leave a Comment

Ahead of the 2023 RSA Conference, Proofpoint, Inc., the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based cybersecurity and compliance company, unveiled a host of innovations across its Aegis Threat Protection, Identity Threat Defense and Sigma Information Protection platforms. The company’s latest solutions empower organizations to stop malicious email attacks, detect and prevent identity-based threats and defend sensitive data from theft, loss and insider […]

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One in Five DNS Records are Susceptible to Subdomain Hijacking

Subdomain hijacking is possible with insufficient cyber hygiene, says CSC; launches first subdomain monitoring solution.

April 18, 2023 TD Staff Leave a Comment

CSC, the enterprise domain name registrar and security threat intelligence providers’ latest report found that over 21% of DNS records point to content that does not resolve; thus, leaving many companies vulnerable to subdomain hijacking. Additionally, over 277,000 (63%) show error status codes such as “404 not found” or “502 bad gateway.” According to Wilmington, […]

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Armorblox: BEC Attacks Increased by 72% YOY

BEC attacks surged 72% YoY with companies being targeted by language-based and socially engineered attacks across industries, finds Armorblox.

April 13, 2023 Alyssa Borelli Leave a Comment

Threat researchers at email security firm Armorblox have found that business email compromise (BEC) attacks have increased dramatically by 72% year-over-year. In its second, annual 2023 Email Security Threat Report, the company says it continues to see high volumes of language-based and socially engineered attacks targeting organizations of all sizes and across industries. Vendor compromise […]

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Is Your Organization Testing Against the Right Cyber Threats?

New research shows that organizations are testing against cyber threats in the headlines rather than attacks they're more likely to face.

April 12, 2023 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Ransomware, supply chain attacks and nation-state threat actors have grabbed mainstream headlines in recent years, and organizations are largely recognizing that they must invest more in cybersecurity to defend against those emerging techniques. However, new research shows that some organizations are prioritizing defending against those trending, newsworthy threats at the expense of the threats actually […]

7 Strategies for Improving Your Business’s Security in the Cloud

Complexity of the cloud can make it difficult to protect data. Here are seven strategies to Improve your business’s security in the cloud.

April 11, 2023 Joseph Carson Leave a Comment

Editor’s note: This article was originally published on March 13, 2023 and has since been updated as of April 11, 2023. Cloud computing offers numerous advantages, including flexibility, cost-effectiveness, scalability, rapid deployment and storage capacity. Still, there are inherent cybersecurity risks with cloud infrastructure, including data breaches and leaks, compromised credentials, and human errors that […]

More than 9 in 10 Organizations Find Security Operations Difficult

Despite 94% of organizations seeing at least one attack in 2022, 93% aren't keeping up with essential security operations, Sophos report finds.

April 10, 2023 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

New research from cybersecurity firm Sophos finds that the vast majority of organizations find executing essential security operation tasks challenging, which makes incident response and remediation difficult in the face of an onslaught of attacks. According to the company’s report, “The State of Cybersecurity 2023: The Business Impact of Adversaries,” 94% of global organizations reported […]

Check to See If Your Organization’s Credentials Were on Genesis Market

Dark web initial access marketplace Genesis Market has been seized, and organizations can check to see if they were compromised.

April 6, 2023 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Genesis Market, online criminal marketplace that advertised and sold packages of stolen credentials that threat actors use to compromise accounts in the financial sector, critical infrastructure and federal, state and local government agencies, has been dismantled by a coalition of international law enforcement agencies. According to a news release from the U.S. Department of Justice, […]

Ransomware Actors May Be Targeting Organizations With Cyber Insurance

More than three-quarters of organizations with cyber insurance were hit by a successful ransomware attack in 2022, Barracuda Networks finds.

March 29, 2023 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Cybersecurity insurance is becoming a popular option for organizations looking to protect themselves from the financial risks of a cyberattack, but new data shows that organizations with cyber insurance may be more appealing to ransomware attackers. According to Barracuda Networks, 77% of organizations with cyber insurance were hit by a successful ransomware attack in 2022, […]