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In the last few years, Tripwire has increased its portfolio to include industries that were previously overlooked in the cybersecurity space. Industrial organizations are the newest targets for some of the most malicious instances of cybercrime in recent memory. Fortunately, we have a team of sales engineers who have unique experiences in this area. Markus Bloem joined me for a short conversation about his odyssey and his current role at Tripwire. His journey starts in a most unique environment…

Any big event is likely to attract bad actors. Keeping the games safe from attack is a huge undertaking for event planners. TechRepublic’s Karen Roby spoke with Ray Canzanese, director of threat research at Netskope, about cybersecurity and the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, being held July 23-Aug. 8, 2021. The following is an edited transcript of their conversation. Karen Roby: I think more and more people are becoming aware now of the problems with cybersecurity and…

Tokyo 2020 Olympics must be extra secure to avoid cyberattacks and ransomware Length: 8:36 | Jul 14, 2021 Any big event is likely to attract bad actors. Keeping the games safe from attack is a huge undertaking for event planners. Source link

Security researchers think HoneyMyte is behind the advanced persistent threat that has mostly targeted government entities. Image: iStock/jauhari1 Security researchers at Kaspersky have identified a widespread cyberespionage campaign that targets government offices in Asia; the cybersecurity attack starts with a spearphishing email. The security experts have identified 100 victims in Myanmar and 1,400 in the Philippines. Kaspersky analysts explained the LuminousMoth attack on the SecureList blog and suggested that the lopsided numbers between the two…

Following a patch for a zero-day vulnerability in SolarWinds’ Serv-U Managed File Transfer, researchers share new details about the attacks, as over 8,000 systems remain publicly accessible and potentially vulnerable. Background On July 9, SolarWinds published a security advisory for a significant security vulnerability in its Serv-U Managed File Transfer Server software, used for secure file transfers and file sharing. CVE Description CVSSv3 CVE-2021-35211 …

If you think regular IT project managers can run IoT projects, you might be miscalculating. Here’s why. Image: Metamorworks/iStockPhoto In June 2021, the State of Indiana rolled out a project management framework that was specifically designed for the Internet of Things. Other IoT PM programs are likely to follow because running an IoT project is different than running a standard IT project, and new skills must be learned SEE: Edge computing adoption to increase through…

The Cybersecurity 202: There are three big theories about why a major ransomware gang disappeared online Source link

Disaster recovery (DR) has long been a fraught issue for IT. While everyone agrees that it’s necessary to have a plan in place, traditional approaches to disaster recovery are expensive, complex, and unreliable. Some might argue that the solution isn’t much of an improvement on the problem itself. That’s because data center failover touches many different components—from applications and servers to networking and storage—which makes it a complex and manual process. Testing and updating data center disaster recovery plans can also consume a lot of IT’s time and resources.  But disaster recovery in the cloud…

The report parses out data by industry. Overall, healthcare topped the list, followed by financial services and manufacturing and utilities. Image: GettyImages: JGI/Jamie Grill Cybersecurity has been a prime topic of conversation following a string of attacks on critical U.S. infrastructure including the Colonial Pipeline attack, JBS Foods ransomware incident and others. On Wednesday, Atlas VPN released a report using Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) data, outlining personal data breaches for the first half of…

Researchers spotted a new malware, dubbed BIOPASS, that sniffs victim’s screen by abusing the framework of Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) Studio. Researchers from Trend Micro spotted a new malware, dubbed BIOPASS, that sniffs the victim’s screen by abusing the framework of Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) Studio. Threat actors behind the new malware planted a malicious JavaScript code on support chat pages of Chinese gambling-related sites to redirect visitors to pages offering the malicious installers. The new piece of malware…