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Ransomware today is a billion-dollar industry. It’s crippled industries like healthcare. In 2017, for instance, WannaCry brought much of the United Kingdom’s National Health Service to its knees using the EternalBlue exploit. It was just a few weeks later when the NotPetya ransomware strain leveraged that same vulnerability to attack lots of industries. These attacks […]… Read More The post PCI DSS 4.0 Is Coming – Are You Ready? appeared first on The State of Security….

As Marcus Hutchins was on his way home to the UK after attending Def Con and Black Hat in Las Vegas, NV, the FBI arrested him. This event sparked immediate internet outcry, especially among the cybersecurity community, as Hutchins was better known as MalwareTech and had just made cybersecurity fame by stopping the WannaCry ransomware outbreak a few months prior. So, why did the FBI arrest a newly famous cybersecurity expert? A look into the…

Attivo Networks, the leader in lateral movement attack detection and privilege escalation prevention, has expanded its Active Directory (AD) protection suite of products with a new and innovative way to discover and remediate exposures in AD that could lead to a breach. The ADAssessor solution finds, fixes, and reduces exposures within AD and limits the attacker’s ability to compromise weaknesses, move laterally, or discover sensitive targets to attack. The new ADAssessor Active Directory protection benefits…

Let’s Commit To Protect Our Privacy This Year How our new identity & privacy app can help By this point in the year you may have already broken some of your New Year’s resolutions, but here’s one to keep: better protecting your online privacy. After all, we are likely to continue to spend more time online in 2021, whether it be for working, learning, or shopping. This makes taking some preventative steps to shield our identity information more important than ever. That’s why McAfee…

Scams: How to protect yourself when job hunting Length: 11:56 | Mar 3, 2021 Scammers will always find a new way to get money. Job searchers can be vulnerable, too. Source link

VMware Cloud on AWS has been helping customers with their cloud migration journey for the past 3+ years. It delivers a seamlessly integrated hybrid cloud solution that extends on-premises vSphere environments to a VMware SDDC running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) elastic, bare-metal infrastructure that is fully integrated as part of AWS. And once in the cloud, customers can start their modernization journey with minimal disruption to their business. In the past Cloud…

Two teenage girls who went missing from the same North Carolina county used school-issued laptops to communicate with their alleged abductors.  Savannah Grace Childress vanished on February 11 from her home on Canaan Church Road in Denton. The 14-year-old was found alive ten days later in Arkansas.  Law enforcement officers investigating Childress’ disappearance discovered that the teen had been using a computer given to her by Davidson County Schools to chat with multiple people on various online platforms. …

The Javascript-based infection framework for the Gootkit RAT was enhanced to deliver a wider variety of malware, including ransomware. Experts from Sophos documented the evolution of the “Gootloader,” the framework used for delivering the Gootkit RAT banking Trojan. The framework was improved to deploy a wider range of malware, including ransomware payloads. “In recent years, almost as much effort has gone into improvement of its delivery method as has gone into the NodeJS-based malware itself.” reads…

A dispute over wages could see workers at Canada’s equivalent of the United States’ National Security Agency stage a strike.  The Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC), which represents 2,400 employees working in cryptography, applied mathematics, advanced language analysis, and cybersecurity at the Communications Security Establishment (CSE), voted last week to authorize a strike following a disagreement about changes to a wage supplement.  The supplement—known as the market allowance—was put in place to make employees’…

American cybersecurity firm Rapid7 has opened a new office in the heart of Northern Ireland’s capital city. The company, which is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, serves over 9,100 customers through 14 different offices around the world.   Rapid7’s newest digs, located in Belfast’s Chichester House, can accommodate up to 400 employees. The company said the major expansion will create up to 150 new jobs and internships in customer support, engineering, and development. New employees will have access to…