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Specops recently released a roundup of the top 20 TV shows found on breached password lists. These shows offer plenty of entertainment, but aren’t ideal for password inspiration. Sorry, “Cheers” fans. Image: Daniel Chetroni/Shutterstock Forgotten passwords can be a time suck and a general drag. As a result, people often resort to less than ideal cybersecurity strategies. On Monday, Specops Software, a password management and authentication company, released a roundup of the popular TV shows…

Attackers can easily buy, deploy and scale phishing campaigns to steal credentials and other sensitive data, says Microsoft. Image: iStock/OrnRin Just as many legitimate businesses outsource operations and services, so do cybercriminals. Cybercrime as a service has expanded to malware, ransomware and even phishing campaigns. A Microsoft blog post published on Tuesday looks at one specific phishing-as-a-service operation and the danger it poses to organizations. SEE: Social engineering: A cheat sheet for business professionals (free PDF) (TechRepublic)   Named BulletProofLink,…

If you’re an IT leader navigating the challenges of a multi-cloud world, you’re certainly not alone. These days, the question isn’t “should we use more than one cloud provider?” but rather, “what is the best multi-cloud strategy for our organization?”   With most businesses today using two or more public clouds, multi-cloud has become the norm. In a recent survey, we found that 80% of organizations plan to have a distributed cloud across public, private, and edge instances.    This shift certainly makes sense, as organizations of all types can benefit from a multi-cloud strategy. Multi-cloud is flexible and agile, allowing you to customize your strategy based…

Rather than indicating ransomware was a passing fad, the decrease in attack volume shows that attackers are starting to become more opportunistic and smarter about picking targets. Image: kaptnali, Getty Images/iStockphoto Trend Micro has released a midyear cybersecurity report that makes two interesting claims: First, that ransomware numbers decreased by almost half in H1 2021 compared to H1 2020; and second, that the number of newly reported vulnerabilities decreased, with a particularly large dip in…

The US Government has underlined once again that it continues to strongly discourage organisations hit by ransomware from giving in to extortion demands. In an updated advisory, the Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has called upon businesses not to pay ransoms, and to focus on cybersecurity measures that can prevent or mitigate ransomware attacks. In its updated advisory, OFAC not only emphasises the importance of improving cyber hygiene and security practices,…

Knock, knock … who’s there? SSH. SSH who? You need to lock down your servers so that only you have access via SSH. One way to help that is with knockd. Jack Wallen shows you how. Image: Funtap/Shutterstock Secure Shell is the de-facto standard for logging into remote Linux servers. It’s served many an administrator well over the years. But just because it has the word “secure” in its title, doesn’t mean that it always…