Hackers Using Secure USB Drives to Attack Government Entities
An ongoing attack on government agencies in the APAC region has been claimed to have compromised a secure USB device with hardware encryption. The nation’s…
Month: October 2023
The must-knows about low-code/no-code platforms
The era of AI has proven that machine learning technologies have a unique and effective capability to streamline processes that alter the ways we live…
Microsoft pitches glass as eternal storage medium – Cloud – Hardware
Microsoft has been experimenting with glass as a data storage medium for some years, and is now pivoting that research towards long-term data centre storage.…
Reinforcing cybersecurity: The network’s role to prevent, detect, and respond to attacks
It’s always DNS. That’s what the famous internet meme popular among sysadmins says anyway. It’s funny because while clearly, every network issue doesn’t resolve to…
3 crucial security steps people should do, but don’t
Cybersecurity could be as easy as 1-2-3. The problem, though, is that people have to want it. Cybersecurity could be as easy as 1-2-3. The…
Google TAG Detects State-Backed Threat Actors Exploiting WinRAR Flaw
Oct 19, 2023NewsroomCyber Threat / Vulnerability A number of state-back threat actors from Russia and China have been observed exploiting a recent security flaw in…
Cyber resilience starts in the C-suite
In many cases, senior executives/line-of-business leaders are minimally engaged in their company’s cyber preparedness initiatives — only 33% of CEOs or managing directors and 21%…
Clever malvertising attack uses Punycode to look like KeePass’s official website
Threat actors are doubling down on brand impersonation by using lookalike domain names. Threat actors are known for impersonating popular brands in order to trick users.…
Business resilience becomes primary force behind cybersecurity investments
Over 80% of northern European organizations emphasize that the need to ensure business resilience is the top driver for their cybersecurity investments, according to Nixu.…
Critical Citrix NetScaler bug needs more than patches – Security
The critical bug in some Citrix NetScaler products patched last week remains under exploitation, according to security researchers from Mandiant. The Google subsidiary said post-patch,…
FBI Warns of Extortionists Stealing Plastic Surgery Data for Ransom
The FBI also warns that cybercriminals are using this stolen data to extort victims, threatening to release it to the public or to the victims’…
Oracle issues mammoth patch collection – Security
Oracle’s quarterly patch release fixes an eye-watering 387 security vulnerabilities, but only 14 of them are rated critical (with a CVSS score greater than 9).…