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There were more than 10 million DDoS attacks in 2020, driven by new attack vectors and new threat actors; most of the industries targeted were vital to life during the COVID-19 pandemic. Image: iStockphoto/ApoevAndrey Cybersecurity firm NETSCOUT has released a new report detailing the state of DDoS attacks during the past year and it leads with an unfortunate new statistic: 2020 was the first year that the number of observed DDoS attacks crossed the 10-million…

Investors pumped almost $8 billion into cybersecurity firms last year, according to Crunchbase. Image: iStock/structuresxx Continuing a decade-long run of high venture capital (VC) funding, 2020 proved to be a record year for cybersecurity investments with over $7.8 billion pouring into 665 deals globally. Driven by an increase in cybersecurity events during the COVID-19 pandemic, remote work, and companies moving operations online, cybersecurity funding in the U.S. increased 22% from 2019 to 2020, according to…

Thycotic and Centrify have completed their previously-announced merger, and are now operating under the temporary name of ThycoticCentrify, it has been announced. The two cybersecurity firms have joined together to form a single cloud identity security vendor, pooling their respective expertise and tools in the area of privileged access management (PAM). The announcement comes amid growing cloud adoption as organizations seek to enable hybrid working models, particularly following the shift to remote working during COVID-19….

According to a new report, thieves are targeting the personal data of staff and students stored in the cloud. Image: iStock/Igor Kutyaev Most educational organizations (60%) experienced phishing attempts, while 33% were victims of an account compromise attack, and 27% were hit by ransomware in 2020, according to a new report from cybersecurity vendor Netwrix.  The number of phishing attempts targeting educational institutions was well above average, according to the 2021 Cloud Data Security Report…

News Detail Technology Leaders Will Convene to Accelerate the Evolution of the Internet and Enable the Next Generation of Human Experiences AUSTIN, Texas & PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Vapor IO and VMware today announced the Open Grid Alliance (OGA), an industry alliance that will define and accelerate the Open Grid, an evolutionary rearchitecting of the Internet. Dell Technologies, DriveNets, … Wed, 14 Apr 2021 00:00:00 Technology Leaders Will Convene to Accelerate the Evolution of the…

Malicious scalper bots hoarded COVID-19 PPE in 2020 to profit from the pandemic, and could disrupt crucial vaccine supply chains this year, according to Imperva. The security vendor’s 2021 Imperva Bad Bot Report claimed to have recorded the highest percentage of malicious bot traffic (26%) since the inception of the report in 2014. Over 40% of all web traffic requests originated from a bot last year. The majority (57%) of “bad bot” traffic observed by…

Microsoft released patches for over 100 flaws for the first time this year yesterday, including one being actively exploited in the wild and four new critical Exchange Server bugs reported by the NSA. The haul of 110 CVEs will keep sysadmins busy, with experts highlighting the zero-day elevation of privilege flaw in Win32k (CVE-2021-28310) as worthy of attention. Although only rated as important, it may have been exploited in attacks for over a month already,…

The US authorities sought a court order to remove web shells running on hundreds of Microsoft Exchange servers, following mass exploitation of vulnerabilities patched in March, it has emerged. The Department of Justice (DoJ) announced the move yesterday, explaining that although system owners managed to remove thousands of malicious scripts from their infected servers, hundreds persisted. Although the attacks started as early as January, one report claimed that as many as 30,000 US Exchange Server…

Let’s Make Security Easy I’ve been hearing a lot lately about tech and information overload, which is understandable given that the average U.S. household now has access to more than ten devices. (No wonder we are all spending more time online!) While technology allows us to be incredibly productive and connected, it can make our lives more complicated, especially if we are concerned about our privacy. We know that with each new digital capability or…