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Cyber-Attack on Expeditors International
PRIVACY PRIVACY Global logistics company shuts down operations systems following cyber-attack Read More
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Report: Missouri Governor’s Office Responsible for Teacher Data Leak
PRIVACY PRIVACY Missouri Governor Mike Parson made headlines last year when he vowed to criminally prosecute a journalist for reporting a security flaw in a state website that exposed personal information of more than 100,000 teachers. But Missouri prosecutors now say they will not pursue charges following revelations that the data had been exposed since…
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Asustor NAS owners hit by DeadBolt ransomware attack
PRIVACY PRIVACY Owners of Asustor NAS drives have woken up to discover that data they believed was safe and sound on their network storage devices has instead been encrypted by ransomware, and that cybercriminals are demanding over $1000. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Read More
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A New Cybersecurity “Social Contract”
PRIVACY PRIVACY The US National Cyber Director Chris Inglis wrote an essay outlining a new social contract for the cyber age: The United States needs a new social contract for the digital age — one that meaningfully alters the relationship between public and private sectors and proposes a new set of obligations for each. Such…
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LiveAction tackles encryption blindness with new offering
PRIVACY PRIVACY Encryption can keep bad actors from peeking at critical data, but it can also allow them to hide malicious activity from network defenders. That’s why LiveAction, a network visibility company, has introduced ThreatEye NV, a platform that gives SecOps teams powerful tools to find threats and anomalies in encrypted traffic. “In 2014, about…
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AT&T Cybersecurity Insights Report: A Focus on Healthcare
PRIVACY PRIVACY Healthcare in digital transformation As healthcare organizations digitally transform themselves to better serve a post-pandemic world, the prevailing goal in the past year has been for them to safely extend health services beyond clinical walls. Be it to power everything from pop-up clinics to telemedicine, this is driving the healthcare technology stack out…
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91% of UK Organizations Compromised by an Email Phishing Attack in 2021
PRIVACY PRIVACY The study observed a significant rise in email-based attacks globally in 2021 compared to 2020 Read More
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New offering from DNSFilter targets shadow IT risks
PRIVACY PRIVACY A new list of high-risk applications commonly used in the enterprise and an offering to block their use has been released by a domain name security company. DNSFilter posted the list of more than 100 risky apps to its website February 17. At the same time, it announced AppAware, which gives organizations the…
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AT&T Cybersecurity announces 2022 ‘Partner of the Year Awards’ winners
PRIVACY PRIVACY We are thrilled to announce that Softcat is the AT&T Cybersecurity 2022 Global Partner of the Year for the second year in a row! Softcat aggressively grew their business and achieved truly impressive results in 2021. At AT&T Cybersecurity we will continue to focus on enhancing our channel programs to provide partners the…
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Top 10 Malware January 2022
PRIVACY PRIVACY In January 2022, the Top 10 stayed consistent with the previous month except Snugy returned to the Top 10, while CryptoLocker made its first appearance. Read More