When the U.S. government began pressuring Russia to do more to stop ransomware groups originating from that country from attacking U.S.-based organizations, IT and cybersecurity professionals were hopeful that those actions would pay off. Shortly after a meeting between the two country’s leaders, infamous ransomware group rEvil went dark, which some thought was a sign […]
CISOs must be able to clearly communicate cybersecurity to the board in today’s evolving business and tech landscape.
Microsoft has released additional guidance to mitigate the cloud vulnerability in the Azure Cosmos DB Jupyter Notebook feature, but reaffirms that only a “subset” of customers who had the feature enabled were vulnerable. Further, no customer data was accessed because of this vulnerability, and impacted customers who’s primary read-write keys may have been impacted were […]
Tech companies pledge to invest in new cyber security initiatives, such as improving security through tech supply chains at White House meeting.
System administrators and other IT professionals are urged to apply Microsoft’s May 2021 security updates as threat actors are actively exploiting a previous vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange Server. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said over the weekend that multiple threat actors are exploiting three ProxyShell Vulnerabilities, which could allow an attacker to install […]
Microsoft this week published a blog post about how the IT giant is helping U.S. federal agencies adopt a Zero Trust architecture and comply with President Joe Biden’s executive order on cybersecurity, and the company’s guidelines should be a framework for any organization to strive towards. The blog comes amid a heightened awareness of cybersecurity […]
Cybercriminals may have their sights set on school districts in 2021-22 academic year; parents fear leak of student data.
A newly discovered vulnerability that could affect 83 million IoT devices allows an attacker to listen to live audio, watch real-time video data, compromise device credentials for further attacks or remotely control devices, according to new research. According to Mandiant, a subsidiary of cybersecurity firm FireEye, the IoT vulnerability is in the ThroughTek Kalay network, […]
System administrators, IT professionals and cybersecurity experts have been sounding the alarm over ransomware and the increasing frequency of attacks over the last few months, and their message is now beginning to be picked up by mainstream media. Ransomware is now rising to a national security level thanks to recent attacks against Colonial Pipeline, JBS […]
IT teams across the globe faced unprecedented challenges in 2020 and 2021, and cybersecurity concerns are at – or near – the top of the list, leading to IT departments investing more in security, according to a new report from Sophos. The cybersecurity giant polled 5,400 IT managers across 30 countries and found that workloads […]
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