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The events of 2020 didn’t prevent small- to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) from adopting the cloud. Impact Networking reported that SMBs’ overall cloud spending grew 6.3% between 2019 and 2020. Such growth is projected to lead more than a third (35%) of SMBs to annually spend between $600,000 and $1.2 million on public cloud services by the end of 2021, noted Statista. Why Are SMBs Moving to the Cloud? SMBs are turning to the cloud for…

A security researcher discovered a bug in PatchGuard Windows security feature that can allow loading unsigned malicious code into the Windows kernel. Japanese researcher Kento Oki has discovered a bug in PatchGuard that could be exploited by an attacker to load unsigned malicious code into the Windows operating system kernel. The PatchGuard, also known as Kernel Patch Protection, is a software protection utility that has been designed to forbid the kernel of 64-bit versions of Windows…

A woman from Rhode Island has been charged with impersonating Microsoft to steal personal information from political candidates and their campaign staff.  Cranston resident Diana Lebeau allegedly sent phishing emails to approximately 22 members of the campaign staff of a candidate for political office in or around January 2020.  In the emails, the 21-year-old allegedly posed as either the campaign’s managers or one of the campaign’s co-chairs. Recipients were directed to enter their account login details into an attached…

Bitcoin prices rocketed in early 2021, and so did the number of cybercriminals distributing malware to force infected devices to mine them, with numbers quadrupling from February to March alone. Getty Images/iStockphoto Kaspersky has published a pair of reports detailing the state of the cybersecurity threat landscape in the first quarter of 2021. The first report, detailing desktop attacks, found that cryptomining malware has exploded in popularity, while the second report covering mobile devices, revealed…

  The Council is currently working on the next evolution of its mobile security standards. To date, PCI SSC has two mobile standards: PCI Software-based PIN Entry on COTS (SPoC) Standard, which provides a software-based approach for protecting PIN entry on the wide variety of COTS devices, and PCI Contactless Payments on COTS (CPoC) Standard which addresses security for solutions that enable merchants to accept contactless payments using a smartphone or other commercial off-the-shelf (COTS)…

The average organization devotes 21% of its IT budget to cybersecurity. By Stu Sjouwerman, CEO, KnowBe4 With the threat of malware touching more and more organizations, boards are beginning to devote greater resources to cybersecurity. The unfortunate truth is that a successful cyberattack can sink a business. The average remediation cost of a ransomware attack, for example, is $1.85 million, according to a Sophos report. The cost of non-compliance if sensitive data is exfiltrated can…

US Convicts “King of Fraud” A Russian cyber-criminal has been convicted of running a sophisticated digital advertising scam that defrauded American companies out of millions of dollars. Aleksandr Zhukov used infrastructure spread around the world to trick companies including the New York Times and Comcast into thinking that they were paying for legitimate digital advertising. In reality, Zhukov and his co-conspirators were using coding and domain spoofing to fraudulently obtain revenue.  Zhukov and his co-perpetrators…