Satnam Narang, senior staff research engineer at Tenable, joins the podcast to discuss Microsoft’s March 2023 Patch Tuesday.
Microsoft’s March 2023 Patch Tuesday release includes fixes for 76 vulnerabilities in the company’s products, with two listed as being actively exploited, one of which also being listed as publicly known. The amount of bugs fixed by Microsoft this month is on par with the tech giant’s February security update when it patched 75 vulnerabilities, […]
The Biden-Harris Administration has released its five-pronged National Cybersecurity Strategy designed to secure the digital ecosystem by putting more of the burden for cybersecurity on tech organizations and encouraging long-term investments in security. The Administration’s vision is meant to make the country’s digital ecosystem defensible, resilient and values aligned. The new strategy comes in the […]
Phishing, social engineering, and ransomware remain favorite attack methods of cybercriminals, but threat actors are beginning to shift to newer techniques, such as phone-oriented attack delivery and adversary-in-the-middle phishing proxies designed to bypass multifactor authentication, according to cybersecurity firm Proofpoint. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company’s’ State of the Phish report finds that email-based phishing attacks remain […]
[Editor’s note: This article has been updated to reflect the company’s official statement on the new updates.] The same threat actor that accessed portions of the LastPass development environment and source code that has forced the company since August 2022 to provide updates as new information is revealed, apparently accessed a shared cloud-storage environment obtained […]
Cybersecurity experts from NordLocker, part of Nord Security, reveal that employees from certain departments are much more lucrative targets for cybercriminals than others. With human error being the reason behind a whopping 82% of data breaches, employees are the weakest link when it comes to organizational cybersecurity. “From receptionists to the C-Suite, every employee should […]
[Editor’s note: An earlier version of this article stated there were two exploited bugs patched this month. It has been updated to reflect the additional exploited vulnerability.] Microsoft has released patches to fix 75 security bugs in the February 2023 Patch Tuesday release, including one each in Microsoft Office, Windows Common Log File System Driver […]
Malwarebytes is launching Malwarebytes Mobile Security for Business, a new tool designed to bring the company’s endpoint protection capabilities to professional mobile devices. According to the company, the mobile device security solution is in response to the growing number of connected mobile devices connecting to corroborate resources. Citing the company’s own research, Malwarebytes says 25% […]
Threat actors are increasingly using OneNote documents to deliver malware as Microsoft makes it difficult for them to use other Office documents by blocking macros by default. Now, hackers are experimenting with other file types, including using virtual hard disk, compiled HTML and OneNote, according to new research from enterprise security software company Proofpoint. The […]
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