Millions of workers have been operating out of their homes since the spring, and many will continue to do so at least part time even after the COVID-19 pandemic is over and officials deem it safe to return to the office. However, that rapid dispersion of the workforce largely didn’t account for cybersecurity, and IT teams had to scramble to roll out solutions that kept employees and the company secure as threat actors ramp up…

By Rick Vanover, Senior Director of Product Strategy, Veeam It is clear that remote working is here to stay. According to a survey conducted by Bayt.com, a leading job site in the Middle East, 90% of professionals in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region expect remote work to increase over the next few years and 74% of professionals prefer jobs that allow them to work remotely. The shift to a remote workforce has…

Mercy Health revealed that it had fired an employee who was responsible for an insider breach involving its systems. On December 4, Mercy Health posted a notice informing its patients of a medical records incident that had occurred earlier in the year. The bulletin explained that Mercy Health, the fifth largest Catholic health care system in the United States, had learned on October 7 that a former employee had accessed medical record information that was…

Tripwire‘s November 2020 Patch Priority Index (PPI) brings together important vulnerabilities from Microsoft, Adobe, and Oracle. First on the patch priority list this month are three vulnerabilities in Oracle WebLogic Server that have recently been included within the Metasploit exploit framework. Supported versions of Oracle WebLogic Server that are affected include 10.3.6.0.0, 12.1.3.0.0, 12.2.1.3.0, 12.2.1.4.0 and 14.1.1.0.0. Up next on the patch priority list this month are patches for Microsoft Scripting Engine, Browser, and Microsoft…

A Russian national has been sentenced to five years after being found guilty by a French court of large-scale money laundering, although charges relating to his alleged involvement in ransomware development were dropped. Alexander Vinnik was extradited at the start of 2020 to France from Greece, where he had been since his arrest there in 2017. The US authorities indicted him that year for laundering over $4bn in funds via his Bitcoin exchange, BTC-e. They…