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Numbers don’t lie. Wow, really? How is that possible? It can’t be! Have you ever had that reaction after stepping on the scale? I know I have. Disappointment then leads into fact-finding mode. How many wings did I eat? How many calories are in cheese dip? But I only had one piece of key-lime pie.   Weight isn’t the only health metric, but we know that numbers don’t lie and often tell a story. Unfortunately,…

Tenable®, Inc., the Cyber Exposure company, today announced it has established a local cloud instance for its software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution, Tenable.io®, on Amazon Web Services (AWS), using the AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region. Hosted in Mumbai, using the local AWS Region increases the scalability and flexibility of Tenable.io for customers in India, offering additional data integrity, availability, and security on top of the already-secure cloud. Organizations in India, including those in highly regulated sectors such…

Operating in hybrid environments can get really tricky at times. As more and more organizations are moving their sensitive data to the public cloud, the need to keep this data secure and private has increased significantly over time. While handling their valuable datasets within their respective environments, companies need to ensure utmost data security and compliance to meet the regulations set by various governments. They cannot afford to make the smallest mistake that can jeopardize…

The Robinhood trading platform recently disclosed a data breach that exposed the information of millions of its customers. News of the attack was released on Monday, November 8th along with word the hackers behind it had demanded an extortion payment from the company.  According to Robinhood’s disclosure, the attack occurred on November 3rd, which allowed an unauthorized party to obtain the following:  Email addresses for some 5 million people.  Full names for another group of 2 million people.  In addition, smaller groups of Robinhood customers had yet more information compromised. Around 310 people had their names,…

The Robinhood trading platform recently disclosed a data breach that exposed the information of millions of its customers. News of the attack was released on Monday, November 8th along with word the hackers behind it had demanded an extortion payment from the company.  According to Robinhood’s disclosure, the attack occurred on November 3rd, which allowed an unauthorized party to obtain the following:  Email addresses for some 5 million people.  Full names for another group of 2 million people.  In addition, smaller groups of Robinhood customers had yet more information compromised. Around 310 people had their names,…

Today’s VERT Alert addresses Microsoft’s November 2021 Security Updates. VERT is actively working on coverage for these vulnerabilities and expects to ship ASPL-972 on Wednesday, November 10th. In-The-Wild & Disclosed CVEs CVE-2021-42292 Up first this month, we have a 0-day in Microsoft Excel that allows an attacker to bypass security features. This vulnerability has seen active exploitation. It is important to note that there may be multiple patches to apply to ensure you are fully…

Dr. Peter Stephenson It’s been a bit over a year since I published my review of Attivo BOTSink and today the company’s product suite does not look at all the same. Of course, one would expect that from a company selected as one of ten Black Unicorns by “Cyber Defense Magazine”, but the differences, while perhaps surprising in some ways, are intuitively logical if one examines the problem Attivo is solving. A year ago my…