The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has charged Ring with compromising its customers’ privacy by allowing any employee or contractor to access consumers’ private videos and by failing to implement basic privacy and security protections, enabling hackers to take control of consumers’ accounts, cameras, and videos. While the FTC only mentions consumer customers, Ring does offer commercial security […]
Account compromise, new inbox rules designed to hide malicious activity, and multifactor authentication bypass are the most popular hacking tactics being utilized by threat actors so far in 2023, according to a new report from cybersecurity firm Expel. According to the managed detection and response provider, identity-based attacks such as account compromise, account takeover and […]
AWS is launching the general availability of Amazon Security Lake, a new service designed to automatically centralize an organization’s security data from across their AWS environments, leading SaaS providers, on-premises environments, and cloud sources into a purpose-built data lake. According to AWS, this allows customers to act on security data faster and helps them simplify […]
A recent Barracuda Networks Inc. (Barracuda) report shows that 50% of organizations were victims of spear-phishing in 2022 — and 24% had at least one email account compromised through account takeover. Cybercriminals continue to barrage organizations with targeted email attacks, and many companies are struggling to keep up, says the Campbell, Calif.-based cloud security solutions […]
Serving state, local governments, and global Fortune 100 companies in the energy, mining, manufacturing, and chemicals industries, Management Controls, Inc. (MCi) needed to transform its cybersecurity to the world-class level expected by its long list of prestigious customers. As a software technology and services provider, MCi provides critical Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions and its TRACK platform […]
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 […]
Microsoft is beginning to roll out new features in Windows 11 designed to make managing and securing Windows 11 devices easier, as well as Windows 365 Boot to enable users to log directly not their Windows 365 Cloud PC and designate it as the primary Windows experience on their device. The Windows announcements came during […]
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 […]
Zero trust has emerged as a key IT security policy that is designed to help organizations be more secure by essentially assuming a breach has already occurred and requiring a user, device, application and transaction to be authenticated and verified each time they access an application, not just at the network perimeter. However, implementing zero […]
Business email compromise has emerged as a critical threat as threat actors shift their tactics and increase the sophistication of attacks designed to takeover business emails, including leveraging residential IP addresses to hide the attacks, Microsoft says in a new Cyber Signals report. The report, the fourth such edition of Microsoft’s cybersecurity research report, finds […]
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