This Week in Security News – January 21, 2022

This Week in Security News – January 21, 2022

Read on: Cybersecurity for Industrial Control Systems: Part 1 In this two-part series, Trend Micro looks at cybersecurity threats that affected industrial control systems endpoints and shares insights and recommendations to mitigate such threats. Trend Micro’s expert team extensively studied reported malware families in ICS endpoints to validate ICS security and establish a global baseline for examining threats that put these systems at risk. CISA Urges US Orgs to Prepare for Data-Wiping Cyberattacks Ukraine government…

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Codex Exposed Task Automation and Response Consistency

Codex Exposed Task Automation and Response Consistency

Codex Exposed Task Automation and Response Consistency Cyber Threats Being able to automate tasks or programmatically execute them unsupervised is an essential part of both regular and malicious computer usage, so we wondered if a tool like Codex was reliable enough to be scripted and left to run unsupervised, generating the required code. By: Forward-Looking Threat Research Team January 21, 2022 Read time:  ( words) In June 2020, OpenAI released version 3 of its Generative…

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Emotet Spam Abuses Unconventional IP Address Formats to Spread Malware

Emotet Spam Abuses Unconventional IP Address Formats to Spread Malware

Emotet Spam Abuses Unconventional IP Address Formats to Spread Malware We found waves of Emotet spam campaigns using unconventional IP addresses to evade detection. By: Ian Kenefick January 21, 2022 Read time:  ( words) We observed Emotet spam campaigns using hexadecimal and octal representations of IP addresses, likely to evade detection via pattern matching. Both routines use social engineering techniques to trick users into enabling document macros and automate malware execution. Upon receiving these standards,…

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FAQ: What’s happening with 5G and airport safety? | ZDNet

FAQ: What’s happening with 5G and airport safety? | ZDNet

Even if you’re not a frequent flyer, you’ve probably heard that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and numerous airlines are claiming that AT&T and Verizon Wireless’s recently approved C-Band 5G will dangerously interfere with airplanes take offs and landings. Will this new 5G be dangerous? Can a 5G call knock a plane out of the sky? Here’s what we know: What kind of 5G is potentially dangerous? There are three basic kinds of 5G:  Millimeter wave (mmWave):…

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Edge computing in 2022: Double-digit growth

Edge computing in 2022: Double-digit growth

Worldwide spending on edge computing is expected to reach $176 billion in 2022, an increase of 14.8% over last year, according to new figures from analyst IDC. Edge computing started out rather modest in its use cases but has quickly expanded across industries and scope. Five years ago an edge network was a few mid-range servers in a ruggedized container. Now Nvidia and Lenovo are deploying GPU-based AI systems. “If we have learned anything over…

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6 Questions to Ask Your Organization About Digital Transformation

6 Questions to Ask Your Organization About Digital Transformation

Are you asking your organization the right questions about digital transformation efforts? Center your efforts with this guide. The need to prepare for disruption has become a cliché in the business world. As the last two years have proven, it is becoming even more of an imperative to prepare your organization for possible turbulence and changes. That comes through having the right culture, processes, and technology in place for success. The first question to ask…

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When Constrained, Innovate

When Constrained, Innovate

What do you think keeps CIOs up at night these days? CIOs are telling me that they function under plenty of constraints—everyone is being asked to do more with less. They must innovate under constraints. Successful CIOs recognize that this is not a bad thing. In fact, a constrained environment is often a source of innovation because it helps drive creative solutions. IT departments should not be overlooked when it comes to finding solutions that…

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The Inside-out Enterprise: Redefining IT SecOps for Today’s Remote-first Workplace

The Inside-out Enterprise: Redefining IT SecOps for Today’s Remote-first Workplace

Compare today’s IT landscape to that of a decade ago, and you can see that traditional enterprise IT has been turned inside out. Workers are at home or in other remote locations. Once concentrated in internally managed data centers, applications and data are now distributed across multiple public and private clouds. In this article, we examine how the inside-out model breaks many of the tools and processes that enterprise IT organizations have relied on for…

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The Inside-out Enterprise: Redefining Security for the Hybrid Workforce

The Inside-out Enterprise: Redefining Security for the Hybrid Workforce

Before the pandemic, organizations took a castle-and-moat approach to cybersecurity. They used corporate firewalls to protect the network, ensuring on-premises devices, systems and data were secure. But that approach no longer works. Now enterprise IT teams are adapting to a new IT landscape with a workforce mostly or entirely remote indefinitely. More applications and storage are moving to the cloud. And cybercriminals, watching these changes unfold, are focusing their attention on new targets and new…

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