April 11, 2020 Waiver of HIPAA Penalties for Good Faith Operation of COVID-19 Community-Based Testing Sites The HHS has issued an additional Notice of Enforcement Discretion covering healthcare providers and business associates that manage some aspect of COVID-19 community-based testing sites. ... Read more
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
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
February 5, 2020 UK Community Housing Firm Suffers £932,000 Loss to BEC Scam High Wickham-based Red Kite Community Housing recently announced it has lost £932,000 ($1.2 million) to a business email compromise (BEC) scam. BEC is the leading ... Read more
January 8, 2020 Erie, Colorado Loses $1 Million To BEC Scam The town of Erie in Colorado has been duped by a business email compromise (BEC) scam. A payment of $1.01 million intended for the construction ... Read more
December 18, 2019 435,000 Weak RSA Keys Identified in IoT Devices RSA is a commonly used encryption protocol for securing communications. RSA encryption uses asymmetric cryptographic keys, one of which is public and can be shared ... Read more
November 23, 2019 9,800 Employee Records Potentially Accessed Without Authorization at Former Aegis Medical Group The Florida physician network, Aegis Medical Group, has begun contacting 9,800 patients to advise them that their protected health information may have been obtained and ... Read more
November 7, 2019 Sophos Threat Report Predicts 2020 Cyberattack Trends Sophos has released its 2020 Threat Report, which reveals some of the recent changes in the cybersecurity threat landscape and details some of the key ... Read more
October 24, 2019 Google Rolls out DNS-over-HTTPS in Chrome 78 and Fixes 37 Vulnerabilities Google has released Version 78 of Chrome, which includes fixes for 37 vulnerabilities in the browser and several new features, including DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH). DoH is ... Read more
October 23, 2019 TitanHQ Enjoys Record Breaking Growth in MSP Business It has been a busy quarter for TitanHQ. Q3, 2019 has been the busiest ever month for MSP growth in the Irish cybersecurity company’s 20-year ... Read more
October 23, 2019 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Email Security for 2019 The Lexington, MA-based email security company Mimecast has been named a Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Email Security for 2019. Gartner Peer Insights is ... Read more
October 7, 2019 NSCS Warns Vulnerable VPNs are Being Targeted by APT Groups The UK’s National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) has issued a warning following an increase in cyberattacks exploiting vulnerabilities in virtual private networks (VPNs). The NCSC ... Read more
October 1, 2019 National Patient Identifier Repeal Act Introduced by Senator Rand Paul Sen. Rand Paul, M.D., (R-Kentucky) has brought in a new bill that aims to have the national patient identifier provision of HIPAA permanently deleted due ... Read more
September 28, 2019 Study Reveals the Top Multicloud Challenges Faced by MSPs Many Managed Service Providers (MSPs) believe the cloud offers huge opportunities for driving growth and boosting profits, but there are many challenges and obstacles to ... Read more
September 25, 2019 Sophos Announces New Strategic Partnership with ArcServe The network and endpoint security firm Sophos has announced a new strategic partnership with the data protection provider, Arcserve. The collaboration will provide Arcserve customers ... Read more
September 24, 2019 CloudLIVE Conference Highlights Strategies for Battling Multicloud Complexity The second annual CloudLIVE conference starts in Boston tomorrow and consists of two days of mainstage events and breakout track sessions covering a broad range ... Read more
September 20, 2019 NCCoE Releases Mobile Device Security Guidance for Corporate-Owned Personally Enabled Devices The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has published new draft NIST mobile device security guidance to help groups address the risks created by corporate-owned ... Read more
September 19, 2019 SpamTitan Named Leader in G2 Crowd 2019 Summer Grid Report for Cloud Email Security The independent business software review platform, G2 Crowd, has named SpamTitan leader in cloud email security in its Grid Summer 2019 Report. This is the ... Read more
September 13, 2019 Don’t Neglect the Human Factor – Employee Security Awareness Training is Essential Cybercriminals are attacking businesses by exploiting the weakest link in the security chain – Employees. Attacks exploiting the human factor are far easier to pull ... Read more
August 28, 2019 Kaspersky Lab Survey: No Cybersecurity Training for 32% of Healthcare Workers There have been a minimum of 200 breaches of greater than 500 records reported since January and 2019 looks set to be another record-breaking 12 ... Read more
August 19, 2019 Custom 404 Pages Used to Serve Fake Microsoft Office 365 Login Forms A new phishing campaign has been detected by security researchers at Microsoft that uses custom 404 pages to display a fake Office 365 login form. ... Read more
August 7, 2019 Massive 540+ Website Spoofing Campaign Identified A massive spoofing campaign has been detected targeting customers of Walmart and other well-known brand which attempts to get them to part with sensitive personal ... Read more
July 12, 2019 2019 Beyond the Phish Report Reveals Employees Have Significant Cybersecurity Knowledge Gaps A survey conducted by the Sunnyvale, CA-based cybersecurity company Proofpoint has revealed end users are unsure how to protect sensitive data and lack the skills ... Read more
June 30, 2019 HIPAA Enforcement Safe Harbor Called for in HELP Committee Bill There may be some implications for HIPAA-covered entities after the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee approved the Lower Health Care Costs (LHCC) ... Read more
May 24, 2019 Google Has Been Storing Unhashed G-Suite Passwords for 14 Years Google has recently announced it has discovered an error was made in its enterprise password recovery feature that has resulted in G Suite passwords being ... Read more
May 14, 2019 New Partner Program Launched by TitanHQ The email archiving, spam filtering, and DNS filtering solution provider TitanHQ has launched a new partner program for managed service providers (MSPs), cloud distributors, Wi-Fi ... Read more
May 1, 2019 TitanHQ Releases WebTitan Cloud v4.12 TitanHQ has released an update for its award-winning web filtering platform WebTitan Cloud. The latest version of the DNS filtering solution – WebTitan Cloud v4.12 ... Read more
April 26, 2019 AppRiver Customers can Now Benefit from ZixEncrypt Email Encryption AppRiver has announced the first cross-over since the company was acquired by Zix in February 2019. AppRiver customers can now access Zix’s email encryption offering, ... Read more
April 4, 2019 Two New Sextortion Scam Detected: Thousands Demanded to Prevent Further Action 2018 has seen a major increase in sextortion scams and large volumes of mails are still being sent. While there are many types of sextortion ... Read more
March 21, 2019 New Report Identifies Latest Spear Phishing Trends Researchers at email security firm Barracuda have conducted a study to identify current spear phishing trends and the tactics most commonly used to attack businesses ... Read more