With the 2020 presidential election just two weeks away, cybersecurity officials are warning that the U.S. voting system is not secure as new concerns arise around election tampering from different nation states and other bad actors. According to Todd Rychecky, vice president of network technology provider Opengear’s U.S. unit, the entire voting ecosystem is not […]
Azure Defender for IoT, Microsoft’s cybersecurity solution for IoT and OT devices, has entered public preview to help protect industrial and critical infrastructure that depend on those devices. The new solution incorporates agentless, IOT/OT-aware behavioral analytics from Microsoft’s recent acquisition of CyberX. It addresses these risks by discovering unmanaged assets, identifying vulnerabilities and continuously monitoring […]
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, along with the FBI, have released a joint advisory warning that threat actors are actively exploiting vulnerabilities as they target government networks. The joint advisory, released last Friday, says these recent attacks are directed at federal, state, local, tribal and territorial government networks, and there is some risk […]
As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, cybercriminals and nation states are crafting their attacks to take advantage of the news cycle and the weakened defenses of a dispersed workforce. This uptick in cyberattacks is coupled with a hacking community that is growing more advanced by the day, with new tools and elegant attack methods that […]
According to cybersecurity experts, celebrities can generate some very risky online search results that could potentially lead to users accidentally installing malware on their devices. Names that come with the most risk include actors, musicians and TV personalities we all know, like Sean Combs, Justin Timberlake, Taylor Swift, Jimmy Kimmel and other A-listers. However, according […]
For many, working from home has been a welcome break from their long commute and noisy office. However, depending on pets and family members, the home can be just as distracting. Remote workers might be tempted to rent a hotel room for some peace and quiet to get some critical work done, but the FBI […]
A new annual report from Microsoft details the advanced threats and sophistication with which hackers and cybercriminals are attempting to infiltrate our networks and IT systems. The Digital Defense Report, released Tuesday, covers cybersecurity trends from the past year and “makes it clear that threat actors have rapidly increased in sophistication over the past year, […]
The computer networks of a major hospital chain in the U.S. and Britain have been hit by a massive cyberattack that may be the largest such attack on a medical institution in U.S. history. According to NBC News, Universal Health Systems, an operator of more than 400 locations, was knocked offline over the weekend due […]
For the last few months during the COVID-19 pandemic and leading up to the 2020 U.S. president election, cybersecurity experts are being extremely vigilant and are warning of increasing attacks against federal agencies and enterprises. And now, according to Reuters, election vendors are being targeted. Tyler Technologies, a company that makes products used by U.S. […]
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has issued an emergency directive to federal agencies demanding that they apply an August update to Windows Server before Tuesday to address a critical vulnerability that could allow an attacker to compromise all Active Directory identity services. The vulnerability – CVE-2020-1472 – is an elevation of privilege vulnerability […]
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