April 14, 2021 Name:Wreck DNS Vulnerabilities Affect More than 100 Million IoT Devices More than 100 million consumer and enterprise IoT devices are believed to be affected by a new set of DNS vulnerabilities, according to Forescout and ... Read more
March 26, 2021 HIPAA Right of Access Case Involving Massachusetts Mental Health Clinic Settled for $65,000 Following a HIPAA Right of Action investigation by the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR), Arbour Hospital, a mental health clinic in Boston, MA, has ... Read more
March 24, 2021 Retaliation Against Company Over Complaint Sees IT Worker Jailed for 2 Years It may be satisfying taking retaliatory action against a company that complains about the quality of your work and gets you fired, but consider the ... Read more
February 24, 2021 Trend Micro Reports 20% Increase in Blocked Threats in 2020 Trend Micro reports a 20% increase in the number of threats it identified and blocked in 2020. In total, 62.6 billion threats were blocked at ... Read more
February 1, 2021 TrickBot Returns with a New Malspam Campaign A botnet that was severely disrupted in late 2020 by a coalition led by Microsoft is now back with a new malspam campaign. The infrastructure ... Read more
January 26, 2021 Survey Reveals Security is the Biggest Barrier to Public Cloud Adoption in the UK The biggest barrier to public cloud adoption in the United Kingdom is the ability to secure public cloud environments, according to a recent study by ... Read more
January 15, 2021 More Stringent Application of HIPAA Right of Access Rules by OCR Results in $200,000 Penalty There is further evidence of the increasingly stringent application of the HIPAA Right of Access Rules by the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) on ... Read more
January 11, 2021 Kaspersky Researchers Link Sunburst Backdoor to Kazuar Backdoor Used by Russian Turla APT Group Researchers at Kaspersky have identified similarities between the backdoor used in the SolarWinds supply chain attack and another backdoor – Kazuar – which is believed ... Read more
December 29, 2020 CISA and CrowdStrike Release Free Azure/O365 Analysis Tools to Identify Malicious Activity The Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released a PowerShell-based tool for detecting unusual and potentially malicious activity in Azure/Office ... Read more
December 21, 2020 OCR Confirms HIPAA Rules on Disclosures of PHI to Health Information Exchanges The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights has published guidance on the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Rules related ... Read more
December 17, 2020 Researchers Find More than 45 Million Medical Images Stored on Unprotected Servers More than 45 million medical images are currently exposed on unprotected servers and can be accessed freely over the internet without usernames or passwords. The ... Read more
December 8, 2020 Kubernetes Bug Allows Traffic from Other Pods in Multi-Tenant Clusters to be Intercepted A Kubernetes vulnerability has been identified that could allow an attacker to intercept traffic from other pods in multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters. The vulnerability, discovered by ... Read more
November 26, 2020 BEC Gang Members who Scammed More Than 50,000 Organizations Arrested Image source: INTERPOL Three members of a cybercriminal gang that has attacked more 50,000 organizations have been arrested in Lagos, Nigeria. The arrests come at ... Read more
November 19, 2020 Study Reveals New Financial Services Employees are Immediately Given Access to Millions of Files A recent study conducted by Varonis has revealed new employees are given excessive permissions and can access a huge amount of company data from their ... Read more
November 18, 2020 Zoom Implements New Features to Tackle Zoombombing Zoom recently agreed to settle allegations of lax cybersecurity and misrepresentation of the level of encryption provided by its teleconferencing platform with the U.S. Federal ... Read more
October 20, 2020 OCR HIPAA Right of Access Initiative Results in 9th Financial Penalty The HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is maintaining the pace in its crackdown on healthcare groups that are 1005 adhering to the HIPAA right ... Read more
October 12, 2020 $23 Million Ransom Demand Issued to Major German IT Firm Software AG, a German IT firm that specializes in enterprise IoT software, has suffered a ransomware attack. Darmstadt, Germany-based Software AG serves around 10,000 customers ... Read more
September 30, 2020 Surveys Raise Concerns About Security with a WFH Workforce The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many businesses to allow employees to work from home or to adopt hybrid working, where employees spend some of their ... Read more
September 17, 2020 Webinar: How to Ensure Business Continuity for your Remote Workforce with Email Archiving With the COVID-19 pandemic far from over, businesses are having to continue to support remote working. While many employees are starting to return to work, ... Read more
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
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
June 19, 2020 Gartner Predicts 33% Increase in Cloud Security Spending in 2020 Gartner has published a revised forecast for information security spending in 2020, predicting a much lower increase due to COVID19. A previous analysis of the ... Read more
June 18, 2020 Information on Contacting COVID-19 Patients to Request Blood & Plasma Donations Once patients contract an infectious respiratory disease like COVID-19, the immune system creates antibodies that supply protection if the pathogen appears again. The antibodies in ... Read more
June 15, 2020 Survey Reveals 92% of Organizations have Cloud Security Gaps Oracle and KPMG have released the 2020 Cloud Threat Report. The report offers insights into the state of cloud security, with data for the report ... Read more
June 7, 2020 Survey Shows Marked Increase in Adoption of Cloud-Native Security Tools A recent survey conducted by the SIEM company Exabeam has shown there has been a marked increase in the use of cloud security tools in ... Read more
May 8, 2020 HIPAA Violations in Michigan and Illinois Lead to Healthcare Workers Being Fired A staff member at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago has been fired accessing the medical records of patients without the appropriate ... Read more
May 1, 2020 Rapid7 to Acquire Cloud Security and Governance Firm DivvyCloud Rapid7 has announced it will be acquiring the cloud security and governance firm DivvyCloud for $145 million in a move to improve cloud security for ... Read more
May 1, 2020 Flexera 2020 State of the Cloud Report Reveals Major Increase in Cloud Spending Due to COVID-19 Flexera has released its 2020 State of the Cloud Report, which provides insights into use of the cloud by enterprises and SMBs, the cloud strategies ... Read more
April 18, 2020 New CloudCheckr CMx Platform Released to Simplify Cloud Management for Large Organizations CloudCheckr has launched a new platform specifically for large organizations with complex organizational structures to help them manage their cloud resources and get the best ... Read more
April 17, 2020 Zoom Announces New Measures Have Been Implemented to improve Privacy and Security Zoom has faced considerable criticism over privacy and security over the past few weeks. The company was claiming to have implemented end-to-end encryption when Zoom ... Read more