CISA Order Highlights Persistent Risk at Network Edge

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

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 ...
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Barracuda Networks Extends Cybersecurity and Data Protection Portfolio

At the Secured.22 virtual conference, Barracuda Networks announced it has added a range of capabilities that collectively tighten integration across its portfolio of cybersecurity and backup and recovery platforms. Brian Babineau, chief ...
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Barracuda Networks Reports Ransomware Volume Spikes

Barracuda Networks published a report today that showed the volume of ransomware threats its security operations center (SOC) team detected spiked in January and again in June to more than 1.2 million ...
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Barracuda Networks Tracks Volume of Log4Shell Attacks

Barracuda Networks published a report this week that showed that in the two months since Log4Shell’s disclosure, the volume of attacks that attempt to exploit the vulnerability are occurring at a relatively ...
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Number of COVID-19 Testing Scams Jumps Sharply

The number of COVID-19 test-related phishing scams increased by 521% between October 2021 and January 2022, according to a report published by Barracuda Networks, a provider of security and data protection platforms ...
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Barracuda Networks Report Shows Spike in Bait Attacks

A report published by Barracuda Networks this week finds 35% of 10,500 organizations analyzed were targeted by at least one bait attack in September 2021, with an average of three distinct mailboxes ...
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Barracuda Networks Sees Rise in RCE Attacks

Barracuda Networks published a report today which revealed that, over a 45-day period in August and September, there was a spike in attacks coming from more than 500 unique attacker IP addresses ...
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Barracuda Networks Acquires SKOUT Cybersecurity

Barracuda Networks this week extended the scope of its cybersecurity portfolio by agreeing to acquire SKOUT Cybersecurity. SKOUT’s security operations center (SOC) service and extended detection and response (XDR) software is primarily ...
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