Kaseya was addressing the zero-day vulnerability that REvil ransomware gang exploited to breach on-premise Kaseya VSA servers. A new supply chain attack made the headlines, on Friday the REvil ransomware gang hit the Kaseya cloud-based MSP platform impacting MSPs and their customers. The REvil ransomware operators initially compromised the Kaseya VSA’s infrastructure, then pushed out malicious updates for VSA on-premise servers to deploy ransomware on enterprise networks. The investigation is still ongoing, according to security…

Something that’s come up recently in conversations with enterprises is the topic of building a cloud operating model. No, I don’t mean cloud architecture, nor do I mean cloud management per say, but a model to actually define and improve how you operate your clouds. But, why bother with a cloud operating model, what’s the point? But more importantly, where is the value for the business? Business Innovation – Driving Technology Complexity As we know,…

A cyber-bullying campaign waged against a sixth grader from North Carolina for nearly a year appears to have been curtailed following its discovery by the abuser’s mom. For ten months, 12-year-old Wilson resident Jaylen White was on the receiving end of abuse so severe that he changed schools in a fruitless attempt to escape it and began having suicidal thoughts.  The cyber-bullying was reported by White and his mother, Sheleen White, to school officials at Wilson Prep…

Fans of Formula One International auto racing were sent strange messages over the holiday weekend after the sport’s official app was hacked. Forbes reports that the messages received by users of the F1 app over the July Fourth weekend are believed to be linked to a targeted cyber-attack.  A spokesperson for F1 stated that no customer data is believed to have been compromised during the incident. Two push notifications were sent out, the first of which, delivered at…

Only a few weeks into 2021, a string of events ensured that cybersecurity would become one of the year’s hottest tech topics, with implications for everyone from individual IT workers and developers to security pros. In January, the federal government was still reeling from the cyberespionage campaign that targeted SolarWinds and the company’s Orion network monitoring platform. This supply chain attack targeted 100 private firms and nine federal agencies, and appears to have been the work of…

The mobile and desktop versions of Firefox Total Cookie Protection are now available Length: 1:06 | Jul 6, 2021 Jack Wallen explains how to protect your web browsing from supercookies with Firefox’s new privacy feature. Source link

Nearly half of professionals also admit to sharing passwords and more than a third say they write them on paper, according to Beyond Identity. Image: anyaberkut, Getty Images/iStockphoto A survey of more than 1,000 professionals reveals that most think their work password practices are secure, but the reality of the situation is anything but. Nearly half admit to password sharing, more than a third say they write their passwords on paper, and one in four…

Compensation is to be paid to thousands of victims of a large-scale data breach at British Airways (BA).  A legal claim was filed against the airline over a security incident that began in June 2018. Data belonging to around 420,000 people was compromised in a cyber-attack that went undetected for more than two months. Between June 22 and September 5, 2018, a malicious actor gained access to an internal BA application through the use of compromised credentials…