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Nearly half of breaches during the first six months of 2022 involved stolen credentials, Switzerland-based cybersecurity company Acronis reported in its Mid-Year Cyberthreat Report, published on August 24, 2022. It will come as no surprise to learn that the cybercriminals’ prime goal in using these credentials is to launch ransomware attacks, which “continue to be the number one threat to large and medium-sized businesses, including government organizations,” the report added. To extract these credentials, the…

US military and intelligence entities are renewing their efforts to protect electoral procedures from hacking and disinformation before and during the November midterms elections. The news comes from the US Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) and the National Security Agency (NSA), who published a joint blog post detailing their security capabilities on Thursday. “This is an enduring, no-fail mission for [USCYBERCOM] and the [NSA], who bring unique insights and actions to the whole-of-government effort,” explained NSA director Paul M….

How the skills shortage is threatening cyber security By Jamal Elmellas, COO, Focus-on-Security Finding sufficient talent has been a real problem in the cybersecurity sector for many years but, with demand growing on average 14 percent each year, the sector is fast approaching crisis point. The shortages are now becoming so acute that there’s a real risk they could jeopardise the ability to maintain adequate cyber defences in a situation that is only expected to…

For the past forty years CIOs have labored to retrofit, rearchitect, and ultimately replace underfunded and underappreciated legacy infrastructures in hopes of delivering the full benefits associated with periodically occurring waves of transformative emerging technologies. Debate now rages in IT and digital communities regarding what will be the seismic technological shift of the 2020s. Some argue the metaverse will be the next dominant computing platform. Despite lukewarm user demand for metaverse capabilities to date, the…

Board directors like Jean Holley can be a CIO’s best friend or worst nightmare. A former CIO herself, Holley always reaches out to the CIO before board meetings to offer her advice on how to handle inevitable questions. “It’s amazing how many times they don’t take me up on it,” Holley says. These CIOs, especially those new to the role, often come off as overly techie, out of touch with the business, or worse, out…

All of us at Tripwire’s Vulnerability Exposure and Research Team (VERT) are constantly looking out for interesting stories and developments in the infosec world. Here’s what cybersecurity news stood out to us during the week of August 22nd, 2022, including some commentary of mine. VMware this week released patches to address an important-severity vulnerability in the VMware Tools suite of utilities. According to Security Affairs, an attacker with local non-administrative access to the Guest OS…