By James Opiyo, Senior Consultant Security Strategy, Kinetic By Windstream Maintaining good cybersecurity hygiene habits is just as important as maintaining good personal hygiene habits. We must maintain high cybersecurity standards to protect our digital health from some common cyber threats. Common threats to our digital health Malicious software (malwares) designed to steal information and or cause damage to our connected devices. Viruses that infect connected devices and then spread to others while giving cybercriminals…

UNC2465 cybercrime group that is affiliated with the Darkside ransomware gang has infected with malware the website of a CCTV camera vendor. An affiliate of the Darkside ransomware gang, tracked as UNC2465, has conducted a supply chain attack against a CCTV vendor, Mandiant researchers discovered. UNC2465 is considered one of the main affiliated of the DARKSIDE group, along with other affiliates gangs tracked by FireEye/Mandiant as UNC2628 and UNC2659. The crooks compromised the website of the…

A man from Texas could be facing up to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to plotting to blow up a data center in Virginia. Seth Aaron Pendley, of Wichita Falls, was arrested in April after trying to purchase what he believed to be an explosive device from an undercover FBI employee in Fort Worth. The 28-year-old admitted that he had planned to use the device to destroy servers in an Amazon-owned data center located on…

A councilor from New Jersey has been arrested and charged with waging a campaign of cyber-harassment against a former girlfriend.  Detectives from the Cape May County Prosecutor’s Office, with the assistance of detectives from the Middle Township Police Department, launched an investigation into the activities of 43-year-old realtor and Cape May councilman Christopher Bezaire in May 2021 after allegations of cyber-abuse were made.  Bezaire, who is the president of the Cape May County Board of Realtors, was…

The Centennial State has unanimously passed a new data privacy act to safeguard Coloradoans’ personal information. On June 8, the state Senate approved the Colorado Privacy Act after a series of revisions were made. The Act is due to take effect on July 1, 2023, and now awaits the signature of state governor Jared Polis.  Should the Act become law, Colorado will follow California and Virginia by enacting comprehensive privacy legislation. The Act gives consumers who reside in Colorado five…

Devices have multiple OSs and firmware running, and most organisations don’t know what they have or if it’s secure. Microsoft will use ReFirm to make it easier to find out without being an expert. ReFirm fits in with Azure services to scan and update IoT devices.  Image: Microsoft As operating systems become more secure, attackers are increasingly shifting their attention to firmware, which is less visible, more fundamental and rarely well protected.  Vulnerabilities in firmware…