Kaseya provides remote management software used by thousands of IT support firms to manage millions of their end users computers. Kaseya was targeted in a supply chain attack to deliver ransomware to a claimed million of their customers computers. Managed Service Providers who provide outsourced IT support for small and medium sized enterprises rely on […]
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The CEO of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre, part of GCHQ, says that the main threat facing UK businesses and consumers is ransomware coming from cyber criminals. This week Lindy Cameron delivered the Annual Security Lecture to the Royal United Services Institute where she stated that: For most UK citizens and businesses, and indeed
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The world’s largest meat producer had to shut down operations in the USA and Australia for several days after a cyberattack at the weekend. JBS Foods operates in 190 countries with 245,000 employees. According to a company statement: On Sunday, May 30, JBS USA determined that it was the target of an organized cybersecurity attack,
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Firefox has rolled out a new Site Isolation feature that greatly improves the security of the web browser by isolating every domain visited into a separate process. This provides protection against Meltdown and Spectre style attacks and cross site attacks that attempt to thwart the Same-Origin policy. Known internally as Project Fission, this significant development
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A report from PaloAlto Networks coins a new security metric: Mean Time to Inventory in order to highlight the incredible speed with which attackers are now targeting new vulnerabilities as soon as they are publicly disclosed. The report is based on three month’s monitoring of 50 million IP addresses owned by global enterprises in order
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New research into the market for exploits on the Dark Web reveals that 61% of exploits sold target Microsoft products including Windows OS, Office, RDP and Internet Explorer. The research presented by Trend Micro at the RSA 2021 Conference this week is the result of a year-long study of 600 dark web forums and markets
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May Patch Tuesday sees four critical vulnerabilities patched by Microsoft and Adobe ships a fix for an Acrobat Reader zero-day that is under attack in the wild. Microsoft Patch Tuesday May 2021 55 vulnerabilities, 4 critical, are resolved in the May security patch bundle from Microsoft. Of particular note are: CVE-2021-31166 which is a Windows
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Over 25% of the TOR network exit nodes have been under the control of malicious actors who are performing man-in-the-middle attacks against network users. What is the TOR Network The TOR Network is a volunteer run network of relay servers that aims to provide anonymous and secure internet access that prevents its users from being
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Today is World Password Day – the annual reminder to review your password hygiene and consider how to improve the strength and security of your passwords. Here are our top tips to improve your password security – at home and at work. Bill Gates predicted the demise of the password back in 2004 saying: There
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Microsoft Defender for Endpoint now works with Intel’s low level CPU hardware based Threat Detection Technology to spot and block cryptojacking malware. Intel Threat Detection Technology (TDT) uses machine learning to analyse low level telemetry from the CPU’s performance monitoring subsystem to identify that cryptomining is happening and then signals Microsoft Defender to do something
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