Tools & Practices June 24, 2017 PhishLine Releases Updated Security Awareness Guidebook PhishLine, a leading anti-phishing and security awareness training provider, has released a new and improved version of its popular security awareness guidebook – Advanced Persistent ... Read more
Cyber Threats June 22, 2017 Patch Issued for Actively Exploited Drupal Vulnerability An actively exploited Drupal vulnerability – tracked as CVE-2017-6922 – has been patched this week. The flaw, which affects Drupal v 7.56 and 8.3.4, is ... Read more
Compliance June 22, 2017 Sophos Included in Gartner UTM Magic Quadrant for 2017 Sophos has announced it has been included in the 2017 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Unified Threat Management. Gartner’s Magic Quadrants include the best companies in ... Read more
Compliance June 21, 2017 RightScale Shortlisted for 2017 SIIA CODiE Award RightScale has been named a finalist in the Best Cloud Management category for the upcoming 2017 SIIA CODiE Awards – The only peer-reviewed program to ... Read more
Security Breaches June 19, 2017 New York Attorney General Fines CoPilot for Delaying Breach Notifications Under Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Rules, covered entities must report data breaches within 60 days of the discovery of a breach. Affected ... Read more
Compliance June 16, 2017 CloudRanger Now Automates Scheduling of RDS Instances Running RDS instances can be costly, and while that cost is not a problem when RDS instances are being constantly used, for many businesses that ... Read more
Tools & Practices June 16, 2017 HHS Considers Making Changes to the OCR Wall of Shame Since the HITECH Act came into force in 2009, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has been publishing data ... Read more
Security Breaches June 15, 2017 Southern Oregon University Phishing Attack Results in Theft of $1.9 Million A Southern Oregon University phishing attack has resulted in the theft of $1.9 million from the university’s accounts – Arguably the worst phishing attack of ... Read more
Security Breaches June 13, 2017 Q2 Saw a 400% Increase in Phishing Attacks on Businesses The threat from phishing has been growing steadily over the past few years, but a new report from Mimecast shows the threat is greater than ... Read more
Trends & Reports June 13, 2017 MediaPro Announces New Security and Privacy Awareness Training Program for Executives While all company employees need to be trained to be more security aware, C-suite executives face unique risks and are a big target for cybercriminals. ... Read more
Insights June 13, 2017 Wombat Anti-Phishing Solution The Wombat anti-phishing solution is a software-as-a-service platform comprising security awareness training to improve understanding of the current cybersecurity threats, knowledge assessments to test threat ... Read more
Insights June 13, 2017 Cofense The Cofense (previously called PhishMe) anti-phishing software comprises a suite of products that allow organizations to tackle ever-changing phishing threats and mount an impressive defense ... Read more
Trends & Reports June 12, 2017 Phishing Trends and Intelligence Report Published by PhishLabs PhishLabs, a leading provider of phishing defense solutions, has published its Phishing Trends and Intelligence Report for Q1, 2017. The report shows that cybercriminals have ... Read more
Security Breaches June 9, 2017 OCR Issues Guidance on the Correct Response After a Cyberattack The increase in hacking incidents in 2017 and major worldwide cyber incidents such has Wannacry ransomware attacks have prompted the Department of Health and Human ... Read more
Security Breaches June 8, 2017 Farm Bureau Bank Chooses Agari to Protect Against Phishing Attacks San Antonio, TX-based Farm Bureau Bank has signed up with Agari and is now using the company’s Email Trust Platform™ to protect its customers and ... Read more
Security Breaches June 6, 2017 Mimecast Report Reveals 400% Increase in Impersonation Attacks Each quarter, email security firm Mimecast releases a report based on Mimecast Email Security Risk Assessment (ESRA) tests. The tests show how effective businesses email ... Read more
Compliance June 1, 2017 Pacemaker Cybersecurity Protections Found Lacking A recent study has found pacemaker cybersecurity protections not only to be lacking, but woefully inadequate. Many of the devices tested were discovered to contain ... Read more
Compliance May 31, 2017 Patient Portal Security Flaw Exposed Data of Molina Healthcare Patients A patient portal security flaw has resulted in the exposure of patient claims information. Claims information had been uploaded to the patient portal of the ... Read more
Compliance May 31, 2017 Children’s Mercy Hospital Alerts 5,500 Patients to a Potential PHI Breach Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City has started notifying more than 5,500 patients that some of their electronic protected health information has been exposed online. ... Read more
Tools & Practices May 31, 2017 Advanced Technology Partner Status in the AWS Partner Network Achieved by FittedCloud FittedCloud, a provider of cloud cost optimization solutions for Amazon Web Services (AWS), has announced that it has achieved Advanced Technology Partner status in the ... Read more
Trends & Reports May 30, 2017 New Ironscales Report Delves into Current Phishing Trends Ironscales, a leading vendor of anti-phishing solutions, has published a new report on the latest phishing trends. The report shows how phishing tactics have changed, ... Read more
Cyber Threats May 29, 2017 Samba Vulnerability Could be Exploited in WannaCry Style Attacks A Samba vulnerability has been discovered that could potentially be exploited and used in network worm attacks akin to those used to deliver WannaCry ransomware ... Read more
Trends & Reports May 27, 2017 Updated CloudCheckr App Improves Spot Management and Reporting CloudCheckr has announced a series of updates and improvements to its cloud management platform, CloudCheckr app, and website. The Cloudcheckr.com website has benefitted from a ... Read more
Security Breaches May 25, 2017 Purple Increases Security Following Recent Ransomware Attacks The global WiFi analytics and WiFi marketing service provider Purple has taken the decision to improve security for its customers with a new WiFi content ... Read more
Security Breaches May 24, 2017 Egregious HIPAA Breach Punished with $378,000 Fine The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has announced yet another settlement to resolve HIPAA violations, this time for the ... Read more
Compliance May 23, 2017 Healthcare Data Breach Reporting Improves; IT Security Incidents Rise The monthly Breach Barometer Report from Protenus shows healthcare data breach reporting is improving, data breaches are down, and there was a significant reduction in ... Read more
Security Breaches May 23, 2017 Windows 7 Computers Worse Hit by WannaCry Ransomware The WannaCry ransomware attacks are understood to have resulted in data being encrypted on around 300,000 computers in 150 countries. The attackers took advantage of ... Read more
Security Breaches May 18, 2017 Wanna Decryptor Ransomware Encrypts Data on Medical Devices Friday’s Wanna Decryptor ransomware campaign badly affected NHS hospitals in the United Kingdom, with 40 hospitals spread across at least 24 Trusts confirming they were ... Read more
Tools & Practices May 17, 2017 NIST Issues Guidance on Securing Drug Pumps Guidance on securing drug pumps has been issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to help healthcare organizations mitigate the risk of ... Read more
Security Breaches May 15, 2017 WannaCry Ransomware Campaign Thwarted The WannaCry ransomware campaign that saw 61 NHS Trusts in the UK attacked has been stopped thanks to the actions of a UK security blogger ... Read more