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Drive Organization-Wide Visibility, Reduce Time to Detection, and Protect Critical Assets With a Cyber Fusion Center The continual and evolving threats to information systems are a constant battle that prompted the creation of cyber intelligence analysts who provide contextualized data, information, and intelligence to those tasked with detecting and defending against attacks. Cyber defense systems need to become more responsive to internal vulnerabilities and adapt to external threats as attack methods evolve more quickly. It…

WhatsApp has been hit by a €225m fine by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) for failing to discharge GDPR transparency obligations. The DPC made the announcement today following the conclusion of an investigation that began in December 2018. This examined whether the popular messaging app “has discharged its GDPR transparency obligations with regard to the provision of information and the transparency of that information to both users and non-users of its service.” This includes information…

The Labor Day holiday could be prime time for more than just barbecues and closing the pool for the year as the open season on ransomware continues. Image: GettyImages/Petri Oeschger In recent months, cyberattacks have crossed through the digital ether with very real implications in our physical reality, as online criminals send shockwaves through critical aspects of U.S. infrastructure ranging from domestic petroleum and meat production to local water treatment facilities. On Tuesday, the FBI…

Tripwire’s August 2021 Patch Priority Index (PPI) brings together important vulnerabilities from Microsoft. First on the patch priority list this month are patches for Microsoft Exchange Server (CVE-2021-34523, CVE-2021-34473, CVE-2021-31207). These vulnerabilities have seen active exploitation. Also, exploits for these vulnerabilities have been recently added to the Metasploit Exploit Framework. These systems should be patched as soon as possible. Following Exchange, there is a patch available for a Windows LSA spoofing vulnerability. This vulnerability has…

A team of researchers at a UK university have designed a new device, which they claim will mitigate the risk of malicious USB drives. The “external scanning device” was designed at Liverpool Hope University and will soon go into production, having been granted a patent by the Indian government. It has been engineered to overcome a major issue with operating systems — that if not configured correctly, they will trust all USBs regardless of what…

Nearly two-fifths (39%) of all internet traffic is comprised of “bad bot” activity, with e-commerce assets most at risk of attack, according to a new report from Barracuda Networks. The security vendor’s Bot attacks: Top Threats and Trends report revealed that automated traffic accounts for the vast majority (64%) of all internet traffic today — including search engine crawlers and social media bots. However, only a quarter (25%) of this can be labelled “good bot”…

Application Modernization Challenges Application modernization is top of mind for all enterprises that want to deliver value to their customers quickly. However, for most organizations, the path to application modernization is slow, complex, expensive and requires a breadth of technical skills given the volume, variety, and complexity of an organization’s digital portfolio. Lack of visibility into existing systems makes mapping existing VM inventory and its application dependencies, a tedious and manual process. Additionally, with the…

Cloud platforms, managed service providers, and organizations undertaking digital transformations are beginning to reap the benefits of an emerging IT trend: the use of AI-powered IT operations technology to monitor and manage the IT portfolio automatically. This emerging practice, known as AIOps, is helping enterprises head off potential outages and performance issues before they negatively impact operations, customers, and the bottom line. But the more advanced deployments are beginning to use AI systems not just…

A former credit union employee is facing a decade behind bars after pleading guilty to destroying large amounts of corporate data in revenge for being fired. Juliana Barile, 35, of Brooklyn, submitted the plea at a federal court in Brooklyn on Tuesday, admitting to one count of computer intrusion arising from her “unauthorized intrusion into, and destruction of data” on her former employer’s computer system. Two days after being fired on May 19 2021, Barile…