Researchers at security firm Guardicore Labs are tracking a botnet they call Vollgar that's targeting devices running vulnerable Microsoft SQL Server databases with brute-force attacks and planting cryptominers in the infected databases.
Italian officials are investigating whether a disruption this week of access to the country's social security website was due to a hacking incident or a network overwhelmed by demand for benefits offered during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to news reports.
The stuck-at-home chronicles have fast become surreal, as remote workers face down a killer virus on the one hand and the flattening of their work and personal lives on the other. To help, many have rushed to adopt Zoom. And for many use cases - hint: not national security - it is a perfectly fine option.
Washington's governor has signed a new law that regulates the use of facial recognition technology. But some privacy advocates say the measure, which was backed by Microsoft, doesn't do enough to protect individuals' rights.
Ready for Office 365? Already deployed but running into problems? Either way, there are some secrets to deployment that can put you on the road to success. Even though these tips have been discussed-even by Microsoft-many companies discover deployment problems the hard way.
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MITRE ATT&CK (Adversarial Tactics, Techniques & Common Knowledge) has served as a model through which interested parties can learn to identify and map digital intrusions against their existing security technologies allowing them to shore up their gaps and prevent more intrusions on endpoints.
But what about the...
With the U.S. presidential election now seven months away, how have threats to the campaigns evolved, and what impact might be seen from COVID-19? Brigadier General (retired) Francis X. Taylor, a leader of the U.S. CyberDome election security effort, shares an update.
Why do enterprises still rely on incumbent technology that depends on the use of appliances anchored to the data center? It's simply because there's been no viable alternative.
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Discover new applications and protect your environment;
Use policy-based access to simplify...
The UK Public Sector DNS Service is one of the NCSC's most widely deployed Active Cyber Defence capabilities across the public sector to date. The NCSC has partnered with Government Digital Services (GDS) and Nominet to provide the Protective DNS service.
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Today's digitized business processes have opened the door for more efficient operations, greater self service, and an optimized user experience. But they also expose the organization to new risks as external data enters the organization, potentially unchecked. And these new threats may be difficult to identify and...
With the U.S. and other nations adopting economic stimulus packages as a result of the global COVID-19 pandemic, fraudsters are now using the promise of government checks as phishing lures to spread banking Trojans, according to a pair of new security research reports.
The short history of cloud computing has been interesting and uneven. Today, a more flexible and agile vision of the cloud is emerging - one that will help educators streamline test procedures, enable real-time collaboration across campuses, and more. This new cloud approach offers developers and operation teams the...
The short history of cloud computing has been interesting and uneven. Today, a more flexible and agile vision of the cloud is emerging - one that will help agencies solve problems ranging from optimizing traffic flows to improving citizen safety. This new cloud approach offers developers and operation teams the...
NTT's Global Threat Intelligence Center has released their latest report for March 2020.
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The latest on web attacks;
The threat assessment for the 2020 Olympics;
Phishing and malware attacks centered around the coronavirus.
Learn why on-demand simulation-based cybersecurity training is essential for security teams in today's threat environment. This white paper defines the simulation-based training market, its training value, and its advantages to security leaders and security team members.
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