SolarWinds is preparing to incur significant costs related to the compromise of the company’s Orion IT management platform and has already spent more than $3 million to remediate the impacts of the massive hacking campaign. Going forward, the company expects to incur costs related to the attack of up to $25 million in 2021. That […]
One of the big selling points of Macs over Windows PCs is the resistance to viruses and other malware, but a new strain of malware found on 30,000 devices is calling that into question and stumping security experts. Cybersecurity firm Red Canary, among others, has disclosed the existence of the malware on macOS that uses […]
We’ve all sat through mandated cybersecurity training that essentially consists of a video and a short quiz that end users must pass to keep in compliance with organizational standards. While those trainings are usually enough to cover the basics, today’s cyber attacks are evolving so fast and are becoming more sophisticated than ever before, requiring […]
Although Microsoft maintains that none of its tools were leveraged by the threat group behind the SolarWinds Orion compromise, the company did disclose that the hackers viewed source code for a small subset of Azure, Intune and Exchange components. In a Microsoft Security Response Center blog on the final update of the company’s internal investigation […]
The number of private sector companies that fell victim to the SolarWinds attack is now around 100, according to U.S. officials who gave a briefing on the large-scale sophisticated supply chain attack that used popular IT management software as an initial access. In a White House briefing Wednesday, Anne Neuberger, the deputy national security advisor […]
Cybersecurity experts and government officials from around the world are still putting the pieces together to understand the full scope of the SolarWinds supply chain compromise. We’re getting a better idea of just how organized and sophisticated the attack was, thanks to people like Microsoft President Brad Smith. In a recent interview on “60 Minutes”, […]
The Florida city’s water treatment facility that was the target of a hack last week that could have resulted in harmful chemicals being released to the public was running Windows 7 and practiced poor password security, according to news reports. The news comes just days after the disclosure of the hack in Oldsmar, Fla., in […]
A hacker was able to infiltrate the water system of a Florida city using a remote access software platform that hadn’t been used in months, according to news reports. The hacker accessed the City of Oldsmar’s water treatment system twice last Friday – once in the morning and once in the afternoon – via remote […]
Microsoft is adding a new feature to Microsoft Defender for Office 365 that will better alert customers of a suspected nation state attack. As first reported by ZDNet, the company is adding an alert to the security portal that will alert customers when nation-state activity is detected in the customer’s environment. The feature was added to […]
If 2020 and the last few months are any indication, the cybersecurity community – and your IT department – needs to step up its game. That could include hiring more cybersecurity talent. However, if your organization isn’t located in areas with a lot of technical talent, finding qualified and experienced cybersecurity professionals could be challenging. […]
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