Tools & Practices August 20, 2020 Microsoft Releases Out of Band Update for Windows 8.1, RT 8.1, and Windows Server 2012 R2 Microsoft has released an out of band update for Windows 8.1, RT 8.1, and Windows Server 2012 R2 to fix two privilege escalation flaws in ... Read more
Trends & Reports August 19, 2020 Microsoft Announces the End of Internet Explorer For the past 25 years, Internet Explorer has allowed people to access the Internet, but it has finally been killed off by Microsoft. It has ... Read more
Compliance August 18, 2020 Google to Add MitM Protection Mechanism to Chrome 86 Warning Users About Insecure Forms Google has announced that the Google Chrome browser will soon alert individuals about insecure forms on websites. Google is planning on rolling out the new ... Read more
Cyber Threats August 17, 2020 CISA Warns of Phishing Campaign Targeting SBA Loan Accounts The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued an alert about an ongoing phishing campaign against government agencies that ... Read more
Security Breaches August 14, 2020 SANS Institute Suffers Phishing Attack Involving Theft of 28,000 Individuals’ Information The SANS Institute, a leading provider of cybersecurity training and certification services, has suffered a phishing attack in which the email account of one of ... Read more
Tools & Practices August 13, 2020 Patch Critical Citrix Endpoint Management (XenMobile Servers) Vulnerabilities Now Five vulnerabilities, including two critical flaws, have been identified in Citrix Endpoint Management (CEM) – also known as XenMobile Server – which is used by ... Read more
Trends & Reports August 12, 2020 Popular Keylogger and Info Stealer Now Steals Credentials from Browsers and VPNs Agent Tesla malware has received an update. The information stealer and keylogger can now steal passwords from browsers, VPN clients, FTP and email clients. Agent ... Read more
Compliance August 11, 2020 Microsoft Fixes 120 Vulnerabilities on August 2020 Patch Tuesday, Including 17 Critical Flaws August 2020 Patch Tuesday has seen Microsoft release 120 patches covering 13 products and a Servicing Stack Update for Windows 10 advisory. 17 of the ... Read more
Compliance August 11, 2020 Adobe Fixes 26 Vulnerabilities Including 11 Critical Flaws Adobe has released patches to address 26 vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader, including 11 flaws that have been rated critical. The critical flaws ... Read more
Security Breaches August 6, 2020 INTERPOL Report Shows Major Increase in Cyberattacks During the COVID-19 Pandemic INTERPOL has completed an assessment of the impact of COVID-19 on cybercrime and has found a major increase in attacks during the pandemic, with cybercriminals ... Read more
Compliance August 5, 2020 Online Shopping Scams Have Soared During the COVID-19 Pandemic There has been a major increase in online shopping scams during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a recent public service announcement by the FBI. Reports ... Read more
Security Breaches August 4, 2020 Netwalker Ransomware Gang Generates Over $25 Million in Ransom Payments in 5 Months 2020 has seen the Netwalker ransomware gang step up attacks on government organizations, healthcare providers, educational institutions, and private companies. In late July the FBI ... Read more
Insights August 3, 2020 Improve Efficiency and Profitability with Hospital Workflow Software By optimizing administrative, clinical, and patient workflows, healthcare providers can improve efficiency and deliver better patient care at a lower cost. One of the easiest ... Read more
Insights August 3, 2020 Improving Efficiency with Healthcare Workflow Automation Healthcare workflow automation is the use of technology to improve efficiency by automating repetitive and time-consuming tasks. Through automation, administrative processes are streamlined, and clinicians’ ... Read more
Insights August 3, 2020 How to Improve Patient Workflow in a Hospital Patient workflow in a hospital describes the path a patient takes from arriving at the hospital and being admitted, the movement through various departments where ... Read more
Insights August 3, 2020 Healthcare Workflow Management Healthcare workflow management can be a major challenge. In healthcare, there are many processes and procedures related to patient care that must be performed by ... Read more
Security Breaches August 3, 2020 Spear Phishing Used in Twitter Hack: Three Individuals Charged In July 2020, Twitter was hacked and hackers temporarily took control of several high-profile Twitter accounts with millions of followers. The accounts were used to ... Read more
Security Breaches July 31, 2020 FBI Issues Flash Alert Warning of Netwalker Ransomware Attacks The FBI has issued a Flash Alert following an increase in Netwalker ransomware attacks in the United States. Netwalker ransomware was first identified in March ... Read more
Security Breaches July 29, 2020 The Average Cost of a Data Breach is Now $3.86 Million The 2020 Cost of a Data Breach Report from IBM Security has revealed the global average cost of a data breach is now $3.86 million, ... Read more
Cyber Threats July 28, 2020 Vulnerability in Cisco’s Network Security Products Being Actively Exploited A high severity flaw in Cisco’s network security products is now being actively exploited. The vulnerability is present in the Cisco products used by many ... Read more
Cyber Threats July 27, 2020 Critical Vulnerability in F5 Networks BIG-IP Devices Exploited in Real-World Attacks On Friday, July 24, 2020, the DHS Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned that hackers have started exploiting the CVE-2020-5902 vulnerability in F5 Networks BIG-IP ... Read more
Security Breaches July 24, 2020 Malware Attacks Down, but Ransomware and IoT Attacks Have Surged in 2020 Cybercriminals were quick to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and changed their tactics, techniques and procedures to capitalize on the uncertainly surrounding the 2019 novel ... Read more
Security Breaches July 23, 2020 Search and Destroy ‘Meow’ Bot has Wiped More Than 1,000 Online Databases Companies that fail to secure their Elasticsearch and MongoDB instances are being targeted by an attacker who destroys the data, overwriting the databases with a ... Read more
Compliance July 22, 2020 Out of Band Update Corrects 12 Critical Flaws in Adobe Photoshop, Prelude and Bridge Adobe has issued an out of band update to correct 12 critical vulnerabilities in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Prelude, and Adobe Bridge, and an information disclosure ... Read more
Tools & Practices July 21, 2020 Fortinet Acquires Cloud Security Startup Opaq The Sunnyvale, CA-based cybersecurity firm Fortinet has announced it has acquired the cloud security startup Opaq for an undisclosed sum. Fortinet already has a powerful ... Read more
Cyber Threats July 20, 2020 Emotet Botnet Springs Back to Life with Massive Malspam Campaign The Emotet botnet has sprung back to life after a 5-month break and is being used to send large volumes of spam emails containing malicious ... Read more
Security Breaches July 16, 2020 Twitter Confirms Admin Tool Hacked and Used in Massive Cryptocurrency Scam Several high-profile Twitter accounts have been ‘hacked’ and used in a major cryptocurrency scam. The first Tweets were sent from the accounts around 3pm on ... Read more
Tools & Practices July 15, 2020 17-Year Old Critical Wormable DNS Bug Patched by Microsoft Microsoft has released a patch for a critical, wormable flaw in Microsoft’s Windows DNS Server that dates back to 2003. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-1350, ... Read more
Compliance July 14, 2020 Maximum Severity Flaw in SAP Could Allow Full Takeover of Enterprise System The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency has issued an alert about a critical vulnerability in the SAP NetWeaver Application Server ... Read more
Compliance July 13, 2020 Zoom Fixes Zero-Day Legacy Windows RCE Flaw A zero-day vulnerability in the Zoom Windows client that could potentially allow remote code execution has now been patched by Zoom. The flaw only affected ... Read more