Databases are the crown jewels of every organization. They’re also notoriously complicated, time consuming to secure and maintain, and a perfect target for cybercriminals.
In this webinar, we’ll take you through how to go about protecting such a precious entity with such limited time and resources.
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Microsoft Office's use of Internet Explorer to render HTML is the gift that keeps giving for North Korean hackers. Security researchers at Google say they spotted a Pyongyang threat actor using a now-patched JavaScript engine flaw via a malicious Office document.
Patients of at least seven hospitals affiliated with CommonSpirit have been affected by a data breach involving the Chicago-based hospital chain's October ransomware incident. None of the affected hospitals appear to have filed a breach report with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Permira's $5.8 billion acquisition of Mimecast has allowed the email security vendor to make product and technology investments that don't provide an immediate financial return. Several buyers expressed interest in taking Mimecast private, and CEO Peter Bauer is glad the firm ended up with Permira.
"Who here thinks your network or environment will become more complex next year?" a cybersecurity veteran asked the audience at Black Hat Europe this week in London. As attackers' capabilities continue to improve, Jeff Moss said defenders must learn to succeed or fail faster.
Hackers, possibly North Korea's Lazarus Group, are behind a campaign that socially engineers cryptocurrency traders into opening an Excel spreadsheet loaded with a malicious macro. Pyongyang hackers specialize in cryptocurrency theft as the regime seeks hard currency to fuel weapons development.
What really makes a “strong” password? And why are you and your end-users continually tortured by them? How do hackers crack your passwords with ease? And what can/should you do to improve your organization’s authentication methods?
Password complexity, length, and rotation requirements are the bane of IT...
A ransomware attack on a New Zealand third-party managed IT service provider affected several government agencies across the country - including the Ministry of Justice and the national health authority. Investigations are ongoing to determine the incident's full impact.
The prospect of attackers using voice impersonation, deepfake technologies and misinformation against healthcare sector entities is a serious threat that entities need to be closely monitoring, says Dave Summit, vice president of cybersecurity at Florida Cancer Specialists and Research Institute.
Ransomware lies behind the ongoing outage of hosted Exchange services at Rackspace, the company disclosed in a Tuesday update. The company did not disclose any particular ransomware actor. It told federal regulators that the outage is likely to create a financial loss.
The 2019 seizure by U.S. law enforcement of online criminal marketplace xDedic is paying dividends for lawyers unrolling prosecutions of accused fraudsters who allegedly obtained compromised credentials from the site. The FBI and IRS estimate that xDedic facilitated more than $68 million in fraud.
Cyberattacks have become so common and so costly that it may feel like the criminals behind them will never be caught. But in recent months, we’ve seen a significant uptick in the number of arrests made—with higher penalties than ever before.
Brian Krebs has reported on some of these arrests over the past few...
Russian actors may be more willing this winter to use digital tools to coerce and influence Europe away from its support of Ukraine, computing giant Microsoft warns. The Kremlin has at its disposal ransomware and active digital disinformation operations.
Windows systems in Russia are being stalked by a new Trojan that purports to be ransomware but is really designed to wipe PCs and leave them unrecoverable, security researchers say. Dubbed CryWiper, it's one of a number of wipers - mostly targeting Ukraine - seen in the wild this year.
A French hospital in the Parisian suburbs scrambled to respond to a weekend cyber incident by transferring patients, directing emergency cases elsewhere and bringing on additional staffers to observe patients. The incident does not appear to have spread beyond the Hospital Center of Versailles.
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