Ransomware is set to evolve into a greater threat in 2021 as service offerings and collaborations increase. Speaking on a webinar this week, Carbon Black’s Tom Kellermann, Greg Foss and Rick McElroy said the year turned out “different than predicted” and the shift to working from home also impacted the e-crime landscape. “This created an industrialization of e-crime groups and their abilities to extend from single groups into business pipelines,” Foss said. This has led…

How to Remediate Federal Systems with Zerologon Vulnerability By Egon Rinderer, Global Vice President of Technology & Federal CTO, Tanium In September, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a notice stating the Zerologon vulnerability poses an “unacceptable risk” to the federal civilian executive branch, and required that all federal agencies “immediately apply the Windows Server August 2020 security update” or disconnect from federal networks. Zerologon is perhaps one of the most significant vulnerabilities…

Speaking as part of the online Web Summit in conversation with John Micklethwait, editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News, former deputy Prime Minister and leader of the Liberal Democrats Nick Clegg said there is a concern where technology is blamed for everything from the results of elections to climate change. Now VP of global affairs at Facebook, Clegg said the ability to use data at scale “is considered to be suspicious or dodgy” and his conversations with politicians and policy makers…