CISO mentoring – who to turn to when the worst happens
Getting to the top role in an industry comes with a fresh set of pressures – after all, with great power comes great responsibility. In…
Month: July 2024
Threat Intelligence Visibility For CEOs: A Strategic Defense Blueprint
Threat intelligence visibility for CEOs is a top priority and not just a need, why? In today’s complex threat landscape, chief executive officers increasingly recognize…
Microsoft 365 and Azure outage takes down multiple services
Microsoft is investigating an ongoing and widespread outage blocking access to some Microsoft 365 and Azure services. “We’re currently investigating access issues and degraded performance…
Microsoft Azure Globally Down – What’s Happening!
On July 30, 2024, at approximately 13:13 UTC, Microsoft Azure & Microsoft 365 reported a global outage affecting a subset of its services. The issue…
A Senate Bill Would Radically Improve Voting Machine Security
Congress is moving closer to putting US election technology under a stricter cybersecurity microscope. Embedded inside this year’s Intelligence Authorization Act, which funds intelligence agencies…
Progress Patched New MOVEit File Transfer Flaw that Allows Privilege Escalation
Progress, the company behind MOVEit Transfer, has issued a critical security alert addressing a newly discovered vulnerability in its MOVEit Transfer product. The flaw, CVE-2024-6576,…
Adaptive Shield Showcases New ITDR Platform for SaaS at Black Hat USA
Las Vegas, Nevada, July 30th, 2024, CyberNewsWire Amid rising breaches including Snowflake, the platform helps security teams proactively detect and respond to identity-centric threats in…
Crowdstrike preliminary report as sourced from Richard Ford
Crowdstrike have now published their preliminary post incident report (PIR) into the issue that brought 8.5m Windows hosts, and a lot of the world, to…
Winning The War On Cybercrime
30 Jul Unlocking The Ingenuity Of The Crowd: Winning The War On Cybercrime Posted at 08:52h in Blogs by Di Freeze This week in cybersecurity…
Average data breach cost jumps to $4.88 million, collateral damage increased
IBM released its annual Cost of a Data Breach Report revealing the global average cost of a data breach reached $4.88 million in 2024, as…
New Mandrake Spyware Found in Google Play Store Apps After Two Years
Jul 30, 2024Ravie LakshmananMobile Security / Spyware A new iteration of a sophisticated Android spyware called Mandrake has been discovered in five applications that were…
UK competition watchdog scrutinises Alphabet and Anthropic tie-up
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is looking into whether Alphabet’s partnership with Anthropic is anti-competitive. There appears to be an arms race going on…