It's been a rough week for major companies and the government as well, with the week finishing off with Washington D.C. lawmakers having their health information exposed. This week's attacks make it very clear that nobody is safe from cyber gangs and hackers. Dole, Dish Network, and Acer all suffered data losses this week, as well as the Crystal Bay Casino.
You’ve just sat down to start your work day and you’re going through your emails, hot cup of coffee in hand. You see an email from your company’s IT department telling you to install an update ASAP. As soon as you click the link in the email, you realize you probably should have checked with IT first.
In this blogpost, we will take a close look at file access auditing on an EMC Isilon file system by leveraging native technologies. We will walk through the configuration process and explore the common challenges faced when working with the resultant audit logs.
Security questionnaires (SQs) are not fun. They’re time-consuming, tedious work and sometimes, they’re the one thing standing between you and a closed deal. Fortunately, the emergence of AI in the security space has resulted in many day-to-day workflows being streamlined – with SQs being one of them. Security questionnaire automation solutions have been on the rise.
National Australia Bank has completed an intra-bank, cross-border transaction using NAB-issued stablecoins. This represents a world-first by a major financial institution on a layer-one public blockchain (Ethereum). The pilot transaction involved the deployment of stablecoin smart contracts for 7 major global currencies, namely Australian, New Zealand, Singapore and US dollars, Euro, Yen, and Pound Sterling.
In our new threat briefing report, Forescout’s Vedere Labs provides details on the recent ransomware campaign targeting VMware ESXi virtualization servers, or hypervisors, and analyzes two payloads used in these attacks: variants of the Royal and Clop ransomware. We also present the tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) used by attackers in this campaign, discuss mitigation recommendations and list indicators of compromise (IOCs) that can be used for detection or threat hunting.
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When it comes to releasing software, many organizations take software signing lightly. But they don’t know that not signing a software or not using a Code Signing Certificate can have an adverse impact on the organization. A non-signed application is not only a risk for end-users, but also for the software publisher. And when you sign a software, it offers multiple benefits that positively impact the organizational goals. To understand it more thoroughly, let’s move further.
