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A British cybersecurity researcher stumbled across his own personal data online after discovering an unsecured database containing the personal information of millions of visitors to Thailand. Bob Diachenko, leader of cybersecurity research at Comparitech, found the unprotected Elasticsearch database on August 22, 2021. Inside the 200GB digital index were records dating back ten years containing the personal details of more than 106 million international travelers. Information exposed in the publicly accessible database consisted of full…

Cyber Defense Magazine predicts: by 2025, cybercrime will cost the world $12 trillion annually. Today, cyber threats are no longer limited to computers. Anything with an electronic pulse is at risk. The question is: is your company prepared to handle a security incident and respond efficiently? “How to handle your cyber incident response and become resilient” webinar with Lisa Forte, Partner @ Red Goat Cyber Security, Andrius Januta, Cyber Security Professional @ Nord Security and…

Just a couple of years of IT experience is all that’s necessary to break into the cybersecurity field with this self-paced training. Image: Sergey Nivens/Shutterstock With the increasingly frequent malware and ransomware attacks, cybersecurity skills are among the most valued in the tech industry, and that isn’t likely to change. So IT professionals who are just at the intermediate level of tech experience can give their careers a boost with the affordable, self-paced Ultimate 2021…

Microsoft is warning its users of a zero-day vulnerability in Windows 10 and versions of Windows Server that is being leveraged by remote, unauthenticated attackers to execute code on the target system using specifically crafted office documents. Tracked as CVE-2021-40444 (CVSS score: 8.8), the remote code execution flaw is rooted in MSHTML (aka Trident), a proprietary browser engine for the now-discontinued Internet Explorer and which is used in Microsoft Office to render web content inside…

Move beyond traditional security strategies to protect against the two most common types of ransomware threats By Jon Toor, CMO, Cloudian The Director of the FBI recently described ransomware as posing a threat comparable in scale to the September 11 terrorist attacks. In light of these comments, and after several high-profile ransomware incidents such as the Colonial Pipeline attack, there should be little doubt that ransomware poses the greatest cybersecurity threat to organizations today. Broadly…

US Government is expected to issue sanctions against crypto exchanges, wallets, and traders used by ransomware operations to cash out ransom payments. The Biden administration is putting in place all the strategies to disrupt the operations of the ransomware gangs, and according to the Wall Street Journal, it is now planning to target the digital finance infrastructure used by these criminal organizations. The Biden administration is expected to apply sanctions against crypto exchanges, wallets, and…

Office 365 and Azure Active Directory’s security diagnostics are surprisingly useful tools. Image: Virgiliu Obada/Shutterstock We’ve all had spam and phish from compromised Office 365 systems. They’re a prime target for bad actors, as mail from Exchange Online is highly trusted, and with the automation tools Microsoft has developed hackers can use the Microsoft Graph APIs to programmatically send messages in the background, while the owner of the compromised account carries on working without knowing…