Author: Asad Yaseen

The University of South Carolina (UofSC) has struck up a partnership with the Palmetto State to develop a statewide cyber-ecosystem aimed at making South Carolina a highly competitive player in the cyber-industry. The new alliance was announced Thursday, February 4, by South Carolina governor Henry McMaster and the University’s president, Bob Caslen. Under the ecosystem, the efforts of South Carolina’s public and private organizations operating in the cyber-field will be aligned according to one unified vision.  “The university looks…

SonicWall has released a security patch to address the zero-day flaw actively exploited in attacks against the SMA 100 series appliances. SonicWall this week released firmware updates (version 10.2.0.5-29sv) to address an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability in Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 100 series appliances. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-20016, has been rated as critical and received a CVSS score of 9.8. A vulnerability results in improper SQL command neutralization in the SonicWall SSLVPN SMA100 product, it could…

A charity that protects and restores woodland in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales has been targeted by a “sophisticated, high level” cyber-attack.  According to a security incident notification published by the Woodland Trust on its website, attackers gained unauthorized access to the charity’s IT systems in December.  An investigation is under way to determine what, if any, data held by the Trust was compromised. Upon learning of the incident, the charity disconnected all of its IT systems in an…

By Jody Paterson – Founder and Executive Chairman. ERP Maestro As if internal risks of fraud and data breaches were not high enough, enter in a year of new work environments and economic uncertainty that has also ushered in an even more risk-prone era. Before we even knew the word “COVID,” the frequency of fraud had tripled in the last four years, according to the Ponemon Institute’s 2020 Cost of Insider Threats report. By August…

America’s National Cyber League has announced a new set of scholarships to help financially disadvantaged students at historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) compete in its latest competition. Last fall, the non-profit organization collaborated with HBCUs to award scholarships to more than 60 students so they could participate in the NCL games. Today, the NCL announced that it has expanded this collaboration by committing to offering 150 HBCU students scholarships to take part in its…

By Nathanael Coffing, CSO, Cloudentity It goes without saying that 2020 was an unprecedented year and the security landscape was completely transformed for cybersecurity professionals. Due to COVID-19 and the U.S. presidential election, the tumultuous year was a perfect storm for hackers to take advantage of. The sudden shift to a remote workforce in March 2020 meant that security perimeters were greatly extended and sometimes non-existent, enabling millions of employees to maintain productivity during the…

Multi-cloud is hot and happening at the moment. As companies start to consume more clouds the questions around multi-cloud become more relevant too. This article describes multi-cloud from an IT operations perspective and what is relevant to look at.   Cloud has been around more than a decade now. Over the last years we have seen cloud computing become the standard way of consuming IT resources to host applications. Companies are building private clouds, consuming…

Victims of the two British Airways (BA) data breaches in 2018 have been granted an additional two months to file a compensation claim after the Group Litigation Order (GLO) window was extended. The claims relate to two breaches recorded back in 2018: between August and September 2018, it was revealed that 380,000 transactions were compromised and later, 185,000 customers were notified that their personal and financial details were exposed between April and July 2018. Data compromised included…