Category Archives: Network Security

SolarWinds attackers suspected in Microsoft authentication compromise

Mimecast issued a new certificate and is urging affected customers to delete the old one after Microsoft warned of a compromise.

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SolarWinds hack is the perfect foreword to new book on history’s biggest breaches

SC Media spoke to author and former CISO Neil Daswani about his upcoming new book “Big Breaches: Cybersecurity Lessons for Everyone.”

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SolarWinds hack: Amid hardened security, attackers seek softer targets

Experts disagree that election security efforts detracted from supply chain security. But there are still lessons to be learned.

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2021 tech predictions: The conceptual gets real

Community and market experts found some consensus: cloud security will dominate strategies and investments even more that it did during 2020, and technologies once deemed “on the horizon” – think automation, 5G and even the much hyped artificial intelligence – will officially arrive.

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DDoS attacks hit Citrix Application Delivery Controllers, hindering customer performance

The attacker or bots can overwhelm the Citrix ADC Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) network throughput, potentially leading to outbound bandwidth exhaustion.

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Account takeovers: Insiders need not be malicious to cause chaos

With 2020 coming to a close, SC Media is delivering through a series of articles our picks of the most high impact events and trends of the last year, which we predict will factor into community strategies in 2021 and beyond. This is the first in that series.

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