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The Federal Bureau of Investigation has issued a flash alert to Americans highlighting the dangers of Mamba ransomware. According to the Bureau, Mamba has been deployed against local governments, public transportation agencies, legal services, technology services, and industrial, commercial, manufacturing, and construction businesses. The ransomware works by weaponizing an open source full-disk encryption software called DiskCryptor. By encrypting an entire drive, including the operating system, the software restricts victim access.  “DiskCryptor is not inherently malicious but has been weaponized,” said…

Welcome everyone to the second and final part of my AIOps introduction. If you haven’t seen the first part, please go back to that one for context. In part 1 we talked about the challenges that exist today, with digital transformation and more and more automation in the software build and delivery areas, there is more and more pressure on IT Operations to react quickly, deal with infra, software, config, connectivity, security, multi-cloud, the list…

New leader is also making changes to the software development process to make it harder for attackers to find vulnerabilities. Image: iStock/Andreus SolarWinds CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna is making changes at the board level and in daily operations to change the company’s security mindset. The company launched a Secure by Design initiative in response to the recent cybersecurity attack. This project is designed to build security into the design phase of software development and to make…

Tenable®, Inc., the Cyber Exposure company, today announced it will become the first and only vulnerability management vendor to partner with the Retail & Hospitality Information Sharing and Analysis Center (RH-ISAC). The strategic partnership will facilitate threat and vulnerability intelligence sharing, while providing members with Tenable’s industry-leading risk-based vulnerability management solutions.  The RH-ISAC connects information security teams at the strategic, operational and tactical levels to build better security for the retail and hospitality industries. Through…

Company leaders should be as close to their chief information security officers (CISOs) as their general counsel or finance directors, the head of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) will argue today. In her first public speaking engagement, NCSC CEO Lindy Cameron, will tell a virtual audience at Queen’s College Belfast this morning that security must be given more attention in the boardroom. “Cybersecurity is still not taken as seriously as it should be, and simply…