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Critical Infrastructure, Business Security

Choosing your MSP: What the Kaseya incident tells us about third-party cyber-risk

Choosing your MSP: What the Kaseya incident tells us about third-party cyber-risk

Critical Infrastructure, Business Security

Choosing your MSP: What the Kaseya incident tells us about third-party cyber-risk

Lessons to learn from the Kaseya cyberincident to protect your business' data when doing business with a MSP.

Phil Muncaster13 Jul 2021


COVID-19, Business Security

The hybrid workplace: What does it mean for cybersecurity?

The hybrid workplace: What does it mean for cybersecurity?

COVID-19, Business Security

The hybrid workplace: What does it mean for cybersecurity?

How can organizations mitigate the risk of damaging cyberattacks while juggling the constantly changing mix of office and off-site workers?

Phil Muncaster13 Jul 2021


Video

Week in security with Tony Anscombe

Week in security with Tony Anscombe

Video

Week in security with Tony Anscombe

The Kaseya VST supply-chain attack impacts hundreds of companies – ESET discovers a new version of Bandook malware – How the ransomware business model works

Editor09 Jul 2021


Digital Security

Microsoft issues patch to fix PrintNightmare zero-day bug

Microsoft issues patch to fix PrintNightmare zero-day bug

Digital Security

Microsoft issues patch to fix PrintNightmare zero-day bug

The out-of-band update fixes a remote code execution flaw affecting the Windows Print Spooler service

Amer Owaida08 Jul 2021


Ransomware

Ransomware: To pay or not to pay? Legal or illegal? These are the questions …

Ransomware: To pay or not to pay? Legal or illegal? These are the questions …

Ransomware

Ransomware: To pay or not to pay? Legal or illegal? These are the questions …

Caught between a rock and a hard place, many ransomware victims cave in to extortion demands. Here’s what might change the calculus.

Tony Anscombe08 Jul 2021


ESET Research

Bandidos at large: A spying campaign in Latin America

Bandidos at large: A spying campaign in Latin America

ESET Research

Bandidos at large: A spying campaign in Latin America

ESET Research uncovers an active malicious campaign that uses new versions of old malware, Bandook, to spy on its victims

Fernando Tavella and Matías Porolli07 Jul 2021


Ransomware, Business Security

Kaseya supply-chain attack: What we know so far

Kaseya supply-chain attack: What we know so far

Ransomware, Business Security

Kaseya supply-chain attack: What we know so far

As news breaks about the supply-chain ransomware attack against Kaseya's IT management software, here’s what we know so far

Cameron Camp03 Jul 2021


Video

Week in security with Tony Anscombe

Week in security with Tony Anscombe

Video

Week in security with Tony Anscombe

Remembering John McAfee, an antivirus software pioneer – Beware these Facebook scams – Data for almost all LinkedIn users scraped and up for sale

Editor02 Jul 2021


Social Media

Twitter now lets users set security keys as the only 2FA method

Twitter now lets users set security keys as the only 2FA method

Social Media

Twitter now lets users set security keys as the only 2FA method

You can now secure your account with a physical security key as your sole 2FA method, without any additional 2FA option

Amer Owaida02 Jul 2021


Cybercrime

Global police shut down VPN service favored by cybercriminals

Global police shut down VPN service favored by cybercriminals

Cybercrime

Global police shut down VPN service favored by cybercriminals

A global operation takes down the infrastructure of DoubleVPN and seizes data about its customers

Amer Owaida30 Jun 2021


How To

Common Facebook scams and how to avoid them

Common Facebook scams and how to avoid them

How To

Common Facebook scams and how to avoid them

Are you on Facebook? So are scammers. Here are some of the most common con jobs on Facebook you should watch out for and how you can tell if you’re being scammed.

Amer Owaida30 Jun 2021


Social Media

Data for 700 million LinkedIn users up for grabs on hacker forum

Data for 700 million LinkedIn users up for grabs on hacker forum

Social Media

Data for 700 million LinkedIn users up for grabs on hacker forum

Information scraped from LinkedIn user profiles includes full names, gender, email addresses and phone numbers

Amer Owaida29 Jun 2021