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The cyber-criminal gang DarkSide, which allegedly disbanded after carrying out the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack, may not stay dark for long, according to a report by CNBC. Key government cybersecurity and counterintelligence officials told the news source that if the gang has actually stopped operating, it could soon be back to its old and highly lucrative tricks under a different alias. Research published last week by London-based blockchain analytics firm Elliptic appears to show that DarkSide extorted…

If you’ve started rolling out AlmaLinux to your data centers, you should enable 2FA for SSH authentication. Jack Wallen shows you how. Image: iStockphoto/Jirsak AlmaLinux is a drop-in replacement for CentOS that also happens to be a 1:1 binary replacement for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Chances are pretty good you’ll be deploying this enterprise-ready Linux server distribution soon. When you do, you want to make sure it’s as secure as possible. One way to beef…

Owners and operators will have to identify any gaps in their security and report new incidents to key federal agencies because of the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack. Image: Bloomberg/Getty Images In the wake of the ransomware attack against Colonial Pipeline, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has revealed new requirements aimed at all pipeline owners and operators in the U.S. Announced by DHS’ Transportation Security Administration (TSA) on Thursday, the security directives are designed to…

The hospital chain has been forced to reschedule operations and is working to bring its electronic health record systems back online. Getty Images/iStockphoto A May 1 ransomware attack against California hospital chain Scripps Health continues to impact both the organization and its patients almost a month later. On Monday, Scripps Health published an FAQ with new details about the attack as well as directions for affected patients. In its update, the organization acknowledged a cybersecurity…

Canada’s primary postal operator, Canada Post, confirmed Wednesday that it has suffered a data breach.  The security incident occurred following a cyber-attack on one of the Crown corporation’s suppliers, Commport Communications, which provides electronic data interchange solutions.  Commport Communications was hired by the postal service to manage the shipping manifest data of its large parcel business’ customers. Following the cyber-attack, Canada Post has informed 44 of its commercial customers that data belonging to more than 950,000 customers…

By Gary Fischer, VP Americas, XM Cyber Why is cyber-defense such an asymmetrical war? Hackers can launch a barrage of attacks on a single target and keep going until they find one overlooked weakness. Defenders, meanwhile, are often overwhelmed with alerts, unsure what to patch first and have little real visibility into the weaknesses of their ever-changing environments. In a battle between active adversaries who only need to land a single blow to win — and passive defenders…

SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW), the global cybersecurity leader, today announced the release of Yor, an open-source tool that automatically tags cloud resources within infrastructure as code (IaC) frameworks Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, and Serverless Framework YAML. Yor automates the tedious work of manually tagging cloud resources, helps security teams trace security misconfigurations from code to cloud, and enables highly effective GitOps across all major cloud providers. “Effective…

Believe it or not, the baby turns 3 today! And like with every three-year-old, there is a lot to watch out for. Granted, when GDPR was born it was after a 2-year gestation (transition) period. What followed were many sleepless nights with the new baby when it was born on May 25, 2018; not to mention the sleepless nights in the run up to the birth. Some parents (organisations) were running around frantically trying to…

The Belgian interior ministry was targeted by a “sophisticated” cyber attack, a spokesman told RTBF public television on Tuesday.  The Belgian interior ministry was hit by a “sophisticated” cyber-espionage attack, the news was confirmed by a spokesman to RTBF public television on Tuesday. The Federal Public Service Interior’s communications director, Olivier Maerens, confirmed that the attackers were not able to breach the server of the ministry, this means that threat actors did not steal any…

MOSH makes it possible for SSH connection to persist, even as you roam from one network to another. Jack Wallen shows you how to install and use this handy tool. Image: Funtap/Shutterstock If you work with multiple wireless (or wired) connections within your company, and you find yourself having to move around the campus to take care of your admin duties, there might be times when you have an SSH connection going and you shift…