The American multinational investment bank and financial services firm Morgan Stanley discloses a data breach caused by the hack of an Accellion FTA server of a third-party vendor. Investment banking firm Morgan Stanley has disclosed a data breach after threat actors have compromised the Accellion FTA server of the third-party vendor Guidehouse. The company has offices in more than 42 countries and more than 60,000 employees, it has clients in multiple industries. Guidehouse provides account maintenance services to Morgan…

Ransomware attacks are rampant, with thousands taking place every single day. Learn how a zero-trust security model can protect your organization. Image: kaptnali, Getty Images/iStockphoto Ransomware attacks take place 4,000 times worldwide every day. The process is fairly straightforward—malware infects a target computer, and an attacker encrypts valuable data then sends the victim a notification demanding a ransom payment to release access to it. It’s a gamble: If the ransom is paid as there is…

We all like to think we’d know what to do if an emergency should occur. In split seconds, we try to recall the ratio of chest compressions to breaths of air learned in bygone health classes or that summer spent lifeguarding. We recognize the importance of a “to go” bag those final few days of pregnant pauses and false alarms before a baby arrives. We have seen enough television shows and cooking competitions to know Gordon Ramsey…

The information sharing organization helps companies deal with security threats and supports more collaboration overall. Ransomware attacks are not going to stop any time soon and bad actors refine their attack techniques with every new breach. In addition to following best practices for securing networks and data, industry leaders and businesses of all sizes should prioritize information sharing.  MJ Shoer, senior vice president and executive director of the CompTIA ISAO, said the Kaseya attack was…

Cloud adoption, business applications and remote users continue to expand at exponential rates. Your cybersecurity team is fighting a losing battle to keep pace with your business requirements and growing attack surface. While traditional security controls and MSSPs were once effective, they are no match for the growing speed and sophistication of modern threats. Officially recognized by Gartner in 2016, Managed Detection and Response has exploded in popularity answering the challenge to rapidly identify advanced…

Cybersecurity training company KnowBe4 reports that the number of employees likely to fall for phishing emails drops dramatically with proper instruction on how to recognize an attack. Image: Vladimir Obradovic, Getty Images/iStockphoto A new study from cybersecurity training and phishing simulation company KnowBe4 found that one in three untrained users were likely to fall for phishing or social engineering scams.  The report analyzed businesses in a variety of industries to build what KnowBe4 calls an…

Docker’s Peter McKee hosts serverless wizard and open sorcerer Yaron Schneider for a high-octane tour of DAPR (as in Distributed Application Runtime) and how it leverages Docker. A principal software engineer at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington, Schneider co-founded the DAPR project to make developers’ lives easier when writing distributed applications. DAPR, which Schneider defines as “essentially a sidecar with APIs,” helps developers build event-driven, resilient distributed applications on-premises, in the cloud, or on an edge…