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Nearly half of professionals also admit to sharing passwords and more than a third say they write them on paper, according to Beyond Identity. Image: anyaberkut, Getty Images/iStockphoto A survey of more than 1,000 professionals reveals that most think their work password practices are secure, but the reality of the situation is anything but. Nearly half admit to password sharing, more than a third say they write their passwords on paper, and one in four…

Compensation is to be paid to thousands of victims of a large-scale data breach at British Airways (BA).  A legal claim was filed against the airline over a security incident that began in June 2018. Data belonging to around 420,000 people was compromised in a cyber-attack that went undetected for more than two months. Between June 22 and September 5, 2018, a malicious actor gained access to an internal BA application through the use of compromised credentials…

  From Human Resources to IT Senior Program Manager, Lacey Johnson found her way to the payments industry purely randomly, by happy accident. Over time, she has been part of the diversification of her company’s Information Security department, which is now 40 percent women. In this edition of our blog, Lacey explains that while gender diversity and leadership has improved in recent years, there is still more to be done for true equality in the…

The cybersecurity industry needs to push forward global collaborative efforts to combat cyber-threats. This was the message from a panel discussion during the UK Cyber Security Association’s One Day Summit Event. Governments need to play a major role in facilitating alignment in this area. Still, the panelists believe the industry associations, who operate in and fully appreciate the increasingly dangerous cyber-threat landscape, must take the initiative for real progress to begin. Professor Lisa Short, director &…

The various threat intelligence stories in this iteration of the Anomali Cyber Watch discuss the following topics: Babuk, IndigoZebra, Ransomware, REvil, Skimmer, Zero-day and Vulnerabilities. The IOCs related to these stories are attached to Anomali Cyber Watch and can be used to check your logs for potential malicious activity. Figure 1 – IOC Summary Charts. These charts summarize the IOCs attached to this magazine and provide a glimpse of the threats discussed. Trending Cyber News…

Do you usually read what critics say before deciding to see a movie or read a book? We believe these McAfee MVISION XDR reviews were worth the wait. But rather than simply share a few top-tier analyst blurbs with you, we’d like to walk through what these insights mean to our growing set of customers and how their sec operations will evolve with greater efficiencies. Extended Detection and Response products, better known as XDR, not…

Audacity software has been acquired, and the new verbiage added to the privacy policy has the open-source community up in arms. Image: Kheng Guan Toh/Shutterstock Audacity. Surely, you’ve heard of it. It’s one of the most widely used apps by podcasters everywhere. It’s one open-source project that has managed to strike the perfect balance between feature list and usability. It has everything you could possibly need to record podcasts, music and just about any type…

The REvil group is claiming that over 1 million devices have been infected and is demanding $70 million for a universal decryption key. Image: Shutterstock/Vchal A ransomware attack against a single company’s software product is having a ripple effect across more than 1,000 organizations. On July 3, enterprise IT firm Kaseya revealed a successful cyberattack against its VSA product, a program used by Managed Service Providers (MSPs) to remotely monitor and administer IT services for…

Zero-day vulnerabilities in popular remote monitoring and management software targeted by threat actors to distribute ransomware to reportedly over one million systems. Background On July 2, reports emerged that a number of companies whose networks are administered by managed service providers (MSPs) using Kaseya Virtual System Administrator (VSA), a remote monitoring and management (RMM) software from Kaseya Limited, became the victims of a large-scale ransomware attack. The attacks have been attributed to REvil, also known…