Holy Smokes! Ransomware may be poised to return as a top scourge for companies, as more and more of them pay up—it’s actually their insurance company that makes the payment—after an attack in an effort to minimize the cost of recovery. In this new RSA Conference 2019 Threatpost video, Josh Zelonis, senior analyst at Forrester… (0 comment)
Microsoft has just released its March installment of Patch Tuesday updates to address 66 vulnerabilities in its applications. Of these 66 vulnerabilities, two are currently being exploited in the wild, 17 are critical, 45 are important, one is moderate, and one is low. This Patch Tuesday, Microsoft not only provides the patches, but also an… (0 comment)
The challenges: Municipalities and governments find themselves in an interesting situation as often the IT and information security departments are a generic city or county service, however based on the numerous departments they support they have very nuanced information security requirements. In addition the goal is always to cut down on taxpayer burden so they… (0 comment)
Last week the USA’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) sent out a directive for all agencies to upgrade their Domain Name System (DNS) security in light of a wave of Iranian hack attempts specifically targeted at compromising DNS. The compromise The Iranian cyber-criminals attempted (it’s unknown if they succeeded), to figure out through DNS records… (0 comment)
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