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CISA Order Highlights Persistent Risk at Network Edge
The U.S. government agency in charge of improving the nation's cybersecurity posture is ordering all federal civilian agencies to take new measures to restrict access to Internet-exposed networking equipment. The directive comes ...
Barracuda Urges Replacing — Not Patching — Its Email Security Gateways
It's not often that a zero-day vulnerability causes a network security vendor to urge customers to physically remove and decommission an entire line of affected hardware -- as opposed to just applying ...
3CX Breach Was a Double Supply Chain Compromise
We learned some remarkable new details this week about the recent supply-chain attack on VoIP software provider 3CX, a complex, lengthy intrusion that has the makings of a cyberpunk spy novel: North ...
Reading Mandiant M-Trends 2023
The famous Mandiant 2023 M-Trends (NOT G-Trends, mind you…) report is out, and here are some of the things that I found to be surprising and NOT surprising :-)Mandiant M-Trends 2023 Detection by SourceSURPRISING“Mandiant ...
Microsoft (& Apple) Patch Tuesday, April 2023 Edition
Microsoft today released software updates to plug 100 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, including a zero-day vulnerability that is already being used in active attacks. Not to ...
Microsoft Patch Tuesday, February 2023 Edition
Microsoft is sending the world a whole bunch of love today, in the form of patches to plug dozens of security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software. This year's ...
Battle with Bots Prompts Mass Purge of Amazon, Apple Employee Accounts on LinkedIn
On October 10, 2022, there were 576,562 LinkedIn accounts that listed their current employer as Apple Inc. The next day, half of those profiles no longer existed. A similarly dramatic drop in ...
Google Acquires Cyberdefense Firm Mandiant for $5.4B
Tech giant Google is shoring up its cloud security offerings with the $5.4 billion acquisition of security advisory and incident response services specialist Mandiant. The company’s dynamic cyberdefense solutions are delivered through ...
Mandiant is for Sale and Microsoft Should Get Serious with Enterprise Security
FireEye Failed, Mandiant is for Sale and it’s Time for Microsoft to Get Serious with Enterprise Security An autopsy of FireEye’s missteps and why Microsoft should acquire Mandiant and create a security ...
Indictment, Lawsuits Revive Trump-Alfa Bank Story
In October 2016, media outlets reported that data collected by some of the world's most renowned cybersecurity experts had identified frequent and unexplained communications between an email server used by the Trump ...
