Cyber Threats April 2, 2020 Phishing Campaigns Using Offer of Coronavirus Financial Relief as Lure Governments around the world are developing financial relief packages to help citizens that have been unable to work due to the coronavirus and are facing ... Read more
Cyber Threats March 31, 2020 Micropatch Released for Actively Exploited Windows Font Processing Vulnerabilities Library were being actively exploited in the wild. The flaws concern how type 1 PostScript fonts are handled. The flaws can be exploited if a ... Read more
Insights March 30, 2020 Office 365 Security Solutions Many organizations that have adopted Office 365 find the level of protection provided by Microsoft’s Exchange Online Protection (EOP) and Advanced Threat Protection (APT) packages ... Read more
Insights March 30, 2020 Office 365 Email Security Office 365 is a powerful collection of productivity enhancing products for businesses, but one often heard complaint from IT professionals is Office 365 email security ... Read more
Insights March 30, 2020 Office 365 Protection Microsoft Office 365 is the most widely adopted software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform. With so many businesses using Office 365 it is a big target for cybercriminals, ... Read more
Insights March 30, 2020 Email Archiving Best Practices Care should be taken selecting the best archiving solution for email and you must ensure email archiving best practices are followed to avoid headaches down ... Read more
Cyber Threats March 30, 2020 Cybercriminals are Changing DNS Settings on Routers to Deliver Malware Through Fake Coronavirus Apps A malware distribution campaign has been detected that uses malicious coronavirus apps to deliver the Oski information stealing Trojan. The campaign was detected by Bitdefender ... Read more
Security Breaches March 26, 2020 Hacked News Sites Used to Spread Malware Disguised as Google Chrome Update If you visit a website and are advised that you need to update Google Chrome, do not download the update. A campaign has been identified ... Read more
Compliance March 24, 2020 Apptio Integrates AWS Savings Plans More Fully into Cloudability Platform Apptio has announced that Amazon Web Services (AWS) Savings Plans have now been further incorporated into the Apptio Cloudability platform and recommendations will be made ... Read more
Security Breaches March 24, 2020 Database Containing Extensive Information of 200 Million Americans Exposed Online A database on the Google Cloud platform containing 800 gigabytes of data and over 200 million user records has been misconfigured and was exposed online, ... Read more
Cyber Threats March 23, 2020 All Supported Windows Versions Affected by Two Actively Exploited Zero-Day RCE Flaws Microsoft has issued a security advisory about two actively exploited zero-day flaws in Windows Adobe Type Manager Library. The critical remote code execution vulnerabilities affect ... Read more
Tools & Practices March 23, 2020 New Vulnerabilities Identified in Popular Password Managers Password managers help you create complex and unique passwords for every application, service, and website but how secure are password managers? Could a password manager ... Read more
Cyber Threats March 20, 2020 WHO Director-General Impersonated in Spam Campaign Delivering HawkEye Keylogger and Malware Downloader Another coronavirus-themed phishing campaign has been detected impersonating the World Health Organization (WHO), or more specifically, the Director-General of WHO, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. The ... Read more
Tools & Practices March 18, 2020 Adobe Releases Out-of-Band Patches for 29 Critical Vulnerabilities Adobe usually releases its software updates on Patch Tuesday, the second Tuesday of the month, but no patches were released on March 10, but the ... Read more
Trends & Reports March 16, 2020 100,000 Websites Impacted by WordPress Popup Builder Plugin Vulnerabilities Two vulnerabilities have been identified in the popular WordPress plugin, Popup Builder, which is used on around 100,000 websites. The plugin was developed by Sygnoos ... Read more
Security Breaches March 12, 2020 Critical SMBv3 Vulnerability Leaked: Microsoft Patch and Mitigations Update 03/12/20: Microsoft has updated its security advisory and released a patch for CVE-2020-0796 Windows 10 and Windows Server 1903 / Server 1909: Microsoft released ... Read more
Security Breaches March 12, 2020 Manual Ransomware Attacks Increasing in Sophistication and Pose Growing Threat to Businesses Automated ransomware attack techniques such as those utilized by the threat actors behind WannaCry and NotPetya certainly have potential to cause massive disruption, but human-operated ... Read more
Cyber Threats March 11, 2020 Microsoft Announces Takedown of Necurs Botnet Microsoft has announced it has seized the U.S. command and control infrastructure of the Necurs botnet and has taken steps to prevent the infrastructure from ... Read more
Security Breaches March 11, 2020 AMD CPUs Vulnerable to Two New Side Channel Attacks All AMD processor manufactured between 2011 and 2019 are vulnerable to two new side channel attacks, according to researchers at Graz University of Technology, some ... Read more
Compliance March 10, 2020 Microsoft Releases Patches for 115 Vulnerabilities Including 26 Critical Flaws Microsoft released a record number of patches on March Patch Tuesday. 115 vulnerabilities have been patched across the entire product range, including 26 vulnerabilities that ... Read more
Cyber Threats March 10, 2020 Microsoft Exchange RCE Vulnerability Being Actively Exploited in the Wild A post-auth remote code execution vulnerability affecting all supported versions of Microsoft Exchange Server is now being exploited in the wild by multiple advanced persistent ... Read more
Cyber Threats March 6, 2020 TrickBot Trojan Gets Trickier with ActiveX Control to Automatically Run Malicious Macros The TrickBot Trojan is now even trickier now that a Windows 10 ActiveX control has been incorporated to automatically run malicious macros in email Office ... Read more
Trends & Reports March 5, 2020 More than 480 Bluetooth Devices Affected by SweynTooth Vulnerabilities 12 vulnerabilities have been identified in Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) software development kits (SDKs) from at least 7 manufacturers. The SDKs are used for system-on-a-chip ... Read more
Security Breaches March 5, 2020 At Least $144.35 Million Has Been Paid by Victims of Ransomware Attacks Since 2013 Figures from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) show that at least $144.35 million in Bitcoin was paid by victims of ransomware attacks between ... Read more
Cyber Threats March 4, 2020 More Than 1 Billion Devices Affected by Kr00k Wi-Fi Encryption Vulnerability A vulnerability has been identified in Wi-Fi chips manufactured by Broadcom and Cypress which are used in more than a billion devices, according to a ... Read more
Compliance March 2, 2020 High Severity Flaw Patched in NVIDIA GPU Display Driver NVIDIA has released security updates that correct flaws in the NVIDIA GPU Display Driver and NVIDIA VGPU Software. An updated GPU display driver has been ... Read more
Insights March 2, 2020 DNS Internet Filter You can keep hackers at bay with a firewall, you can block email threats with a spam filter, and a DNS internet filter allows you ... Read more
Insights March 2, 2020 DNS Filtering Service Businesses need to implement defenses to prevent malware and ransomware from being downloaded onto their networks. An email security solution is important for blocking threats ... Read more
Insights March 2, 2020 Best DNS Filtering Services for Businesses To save you time in your search, we have provided further information on two of the best DNS filtering services for businesses. These DNS filtering ... Read more
Insights March 2, 2020 What is DNS Blocking? DNS blocking is a form of Internet filtering control that prevents individuals from accessing certain types of web content, such as webpages hosting phishing kits ... Read more