Cyber Threats October 29, 2017 New MyEtherWallet Phishing Campaign Detected A new MyEtherWallet phishing campaign has been detected that uses a convincing domain and MyEtherWallet branding to fool MyEtherWallet users into revealing their credentials and ... Read more
Compliance October 25, 2017 Spotinst Functions Launched: Spot Instances with Guaranteed Availability at the Lowest Price Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud can bring in extra revenue by selling off excess cloud capacity. However, while this extra capacity ... Read more
Security Breaches October 25, 2017 Widespread Bad Rabbit Ransomware Drive-By Attacks Reported Over the past 24 hours, there have been hundreds of reports of cyberattacks involving Bad Rabbit ransomware – A new ransomware variant with similarities to ... Read more
Security Breaches October 17, 2017 KRACK WiFi Security Vulnerability Allows Attackers to Decrypt WiFi Traffic Security researchers at the University of Leuven in Belgium have discovered a WiFi security flaw in WPA2 called KRACK. The KRACK WiFi security vulnerability affects all ... Read more
Cyber Threats October 17, 2017 Adobe Patches Actively Exploited Flash Player Flaw Used to Deliver FinSpy Malware Yesterday, Adobe released a new update for Flash Player to address an actively exploited flaw (CVE-2017-11292) that is being used by the hacking group Black ... Read more
Security Breaches October 15, 2017 Department of Education Issues Advisory to Hacking and Extortion Threats Recently, the hacking group TheDarkOverlord has been targeting K12 schools; gaining access to networks, stealing data and attempting to extort money. In response to the ... Read more
Cyber Threats October 13, 2017 Most Effective Phishing Emails Revealed Phishing is an effective method of obtaining login credentials and installing malware and ransomware, and email is the most common vector used for these scams, ... Read more
Tools & Practices October 12, 2017 Why You Should Use a Web Filter to Prevent Employees Accessing Pornography Many companies have realized that acceptable Internet usage policies are insufficient and do not prevent employees accessing pornography at work. While employees can be told ... Read more
Cyber Threats October 11, 2017 FormBook Malware Campaign Targets U.S. Organizations Most Formbook malware attacks have targeted specific industry sectors in the United States and South Korea, but there is concern that the malware will be ... Read more
Cyber Threats October 11, 2017 Microsoft Patches Actively Exploited Zero Day Vulnerabilities This Patch Tuesday has seen Microsoft issue several updates for critical vulnerabilities, some of which are being actively exploited in the wild. Microsoft is urging ... Read more
Tools & Practices October 10, 2017 AppRiver Acquired by Marlin Equity Partners The private equity firm Marlin Equity Partners has security a majority stake in the Florida-based cybersecurity firm AppRiver for an undisclosed sum. Marlin Equity Partners ... Read more
Trends & Reports October 9, 2017 SMB IT Security Survey Reveals Confidence in Cybersecurity Defenses is Low A recent SMB IT security survey has revealed that while security spending has increased by 17% year over year, IT professionals are less confident in ... Read more
Trends & Reports October 9, 2017 What is the Definition of a HIPAA Covered Entity? HIPAA compliance applies to covered entities and business associates, but what is the definition of a HIPAA covered entity and what are HIPAA business associates? ... Read more
Security Breaches October 8, 2017 Phishing Has Been the Leading Vector for Cyberattacks in 2017 A recent email security report from anti-phishing vendor IronScales shows that throughout 2017, the leading cyberattack vector is phishing emails, which account for almost 95% ... Read more
Tools & Practices October 6, 2017 GFI Software Improves Email Security with GFI MailEssentials v.21 GFI Software has released a new version of GFI MailEssentials – Its award-winning spam filtering solution for small and medium sized businesses. Version 21 of ... Read more
Security Breaches October 5, 2017 New Rowhammer Exploit Enables Hackers to Bypass Mitigations The Rowhammer exploit was first discovered in 2014 and was shown to allow attackers to take control of devices by targeting DRAM memory cells. Rowhammer ... Read more
Cyber Threats October 5, 2017 SonicWall Announces its Capture APT Service Now Blocking More than 1,000 Unique Malware Variants Each Day San Jose, CA-based cybersecurity firm SonicWall is now blocking more than 1,000 new, unique malware variants each day and has seen 524% growth in the ... Read more
Security Breaches October 5, 2017 3 Billion Accounts Compromised in 2013 Yahoo Data Breach While the 2013 Yahoo data breach was soon known to involve many of the company’s customers, it became apparent in December 2016 that 1 billion ... Read more
Security Breaches October 5, 2017 Flusihoc Botnet Activity Increases, Delivering Crippling DDoS Attacks The Flusihoc Botnet is being used for crippling DDoS attacks, some as high as 45 Gbps according to researchers at Arbor networks. The botnet has ... Read more
Trends & Reports October 4, 2017 MediaPro Report Reveals 7 Out of 10 Employees Lack Appropriate Level of Security Awareness The phishing simulation and security awareness training firm MediaPro has released its second annual State of Privacy and Security Awareness Report, which reveals 7 out ... Read more
Cyber Threats October 3, 2017 Ransomware and Phishing Rated Top Threats by IT Professionals A recent survey by Cyren, conducted by Osterman Research, has revealed the biggest concerns of IT professionals are ransomware and phishing. When asked about their ... Read more
Cyber Threats September 27, 2017 More than 1 Million New Phishing Websites are Created Each Month The Quarterly Threat Trends Report published by WebRoot this month shows there has been a significant increase in the number of new phishing websites being ... Read more
Compliance September 27, 2017 Skeddly Introduces Option of Deleting/Recreating Aurora RDS Clusters to Lower Cloud Costs RDS instances used for staging and development do not need to run around the clock, yet many companies are not turning the lights off when ... Read more
Cyber Threats September 22, 2017 2017 Has Seen Major Improvements in Phishing Awareness The latest Beyond the Phish Report from Wombat Security Technologies has shown employees are getting better at identifying phishing emails, and investment in security awareness ... Read more
Tools & Practices September 20, 2017 CyberSecurity Breakthrough Names SonicWall 2017 Cybersecurity Company of the Year SonicWall has collected a prestigious Cybersecurity Breakthrough Award and was named ‘Overall CyberSecurity Company of the Year, 2017. CyberSecurity Breakthrough is an independent organization that ... Read more
Security Breaches September 19, 2017 Equifax Announces Second Data Breach Occurred Five Months Ago The Equifax data breach that exposed the records of 143 million consumers was not the only data breach the firm experienced this year. Equifax has ... Read more
Cyber Threats September 19, 2017 Piriform Alerts Users That CCleaner Contained Malware Piriform’s CCleaner, a free PC cleaning app with 130 million users around the world, has been discovered to contain malware. Researchers at Cisco Talos recently ... Read more
Security Breaches September 15, 2017 Three Quarters of UK Businesses Have Experienced Email Security Incidents Phishing is the number one cybersecurity threat in the UK, and UK businesses are increasingly coming under attack. A new report from the leading provider ... Read more
Security Breaches September 14, 2017 Beware of Equifax Data Breach Phishing Scams Consumers are being warned to be on high alert for Equifax data breach phishing scams, telephone and text message scams, and fraudulent use of their ... Read more
Compliance September 14, 2017 GorillaStack Named Startup Specialist of the Year at the 2017 ARN ICT Awards GorillaStack, the Sydney-based provider of cloud cost optimization tools, was only formed in 2015 but the firm has certainly hit the ground running. The company ... Read more