If you aren’t already familiar with ransomware, the increasing frequency of such attacks and the level of sophistication with which cybercriminal gangs deploy the malware, then you need to be paying more attention. The prevailing trend over the course of the last few years is the rise of double extortion, which means that the purpose […]
If you’re still requiring users to create complex passwords with a combination of letters, numbers and symbols, think again, says the U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre. The NCSC, the U.K. counterpart to the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), maintains that complexity requirements and making users regularly change passwords is actually less secure than […]
IT teams everywhere have been busy over the last year and a half helping their organization transition to remote work, and then back to a hybrid work environment as the COVID-19 pandemic began to subside earlier this year. As organizations were scrambling to adopt new technologies and solutions to accommodate those work models, cybercriminals seized, […]
A pair of new reports from Risk Based Security find that disclosed software and hardware vulnerabilities continue to increase while reported data breaches in most parts of the world decline. For IT administrators struggling to keep pace with the rapid changes in cybersecurity, the reports provide some useful insight into exactly what you’re up against. […]
Microsoft is warning of an active phishing campaign that uses a combination of techniques to evade detection and trick users into giving up their credentials. In a series of Tweets and updates on GitHub, Microsoft’s security team says the active phishing campaign uses a “craft combination” of legitimate-looking original sender email addresses, spoofed display sender […]
Threat actors are becoming more skilled and attacks are increasing in level of sophistication, and the cybersecurity workforce can’t keep pace, according to a new study from the Information Systems Security Association. The study, conducted by ISSA and analyst firm Enterprise Strategy Group, found that organizations largely are not investing enough into their cybersecurity workforce […]
According to a report by IBM security, data breaches hit record highs in terms of cost due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Even before the pandemic, data breaches were becoming a more frequent problem for organizations, but due to multiple factors, they became more problematic in the past year. IBM Security hired Ponemon Institute to compile […]
IT infrastructure and cyber security considerations for protecting power devices from potential cyberattacks.
Microsoft has shared instructions on how to mitigate PetitPotam, an NT Lan Manager (NTLM) relay attack used against Windows domain controllers or servers. The company did not say if the vulnerability is currently being exploited. Microsoft called it a “classic” NTLM relay attack that allows an attacker to take over a domain controller or other […]
When your computer systems are infected with ransomware, you may think you only have two options: pay to (maybe) have all your data decrypted by the hackers or start the long and arduous process of restoring everything. Those two options have their pros and cons. Paying the ransom can be a quick fix, but it’s […]
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