Category Archives: Security News
Complexity and cost chip away at SOCs’ perceived return on investment
51% of 17,200 surveyed IT and security practitioners said that
their SOC’s ROI has gotten worse.
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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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‘I’ll Teams you’: Employees assume security of links, file sharing via Microsoft comms platform
In theory they know better. But Users naïvely trust workplace communications platforms, despite phishing and impersonation threats.
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DarkSide decryptor unlocks systems without ransom payment – for now
The decryptor works for all current DarkSide infections, but that will likely change soon as the group reacts and adapts to the disclosure.
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Feds will weigh whether cyber best practices were followed when assessing HIPAA fines
Organizations that can show they did their due diligence in protecting medical information will be better off, should a breach occur.
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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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Legal recourse? Nissan balances competitive and security fallout from source code leak
News that source code of Nissan North America tools leaked online because of a misconfigured Git server spurs questions not only about potential cyberattacks by bad actors, but also whether competitors could use the sensitive data against the automobile giant.
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Malware variant becomes world’s most popular, thanks to ransomware surge
Ransomware actors are laundering hundreds of millions of dollars through pseudo-legitimate cryptocurrency exchanges, while early-stage malware that is often used to facilitate their attacks have become the most popular forms of malware in the world.
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Linux machines again targeted by hackers with new memory loader
The Ezuri loader filelessly executes malware on Linux machines from memory, using a technique that is more common in Windows.
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