CSO Magazine

MAY 25, 2022

The total number of Microsoft vulnerabilities reported in 2021 dropped by 5%, reversing a five-year trend that saw such vulnerabilities rising sharply, according to a new report from identity management and security vendor BeyondTrust. Vulnerabilities on Windows, Windows Server drop. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Cyberattacks in 2021 continued to steadily increase in volume and sophistication. The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center reported 2,084 ransomware complaints from January to July 31, 2021, representing a 62% year-over-year increase. Ransomware continued its ruthless path across industries, often putting lives at risk.

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CSO Magazine

MAY 17, 2022

This is clearly seen in their targeting of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) providers, as highlighted in NETSCOUT’s 2H 2021 Threat Report. Threat actors are continually innovating and rethinking their attack patterns – as well as who they target with attacks. Why target VoIP providers? The short answer is financial gain.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Representatives of the Stanford Internet Observatory declared that users should assume all conversations are being recorded by the company, a circumstance that raises concerns because they have no information on how the conversations are stored. 1 [link] pic.twitter.com/0y18WmNdth — Robert Potter (@rpotter_9) February 21, 2021.

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CSO Magazine

JULY 12, 2022

The attack is capable of bypassing multi-factor authentication (MFA) and has targeted over 10,000 organizations since September 2021. According to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), BEC attacks have led to over $43 billion in losses between June 2016 and December 2021.

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CSO Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Companies that do business on the internet or use network connections in any way, shape, or form are vulnerable to cyberattack. According to the 1H 2021 NETSCOUT Threat Intelligence Report , there were nearly 5.4 million distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in the first half of 2021.

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CSO Magazine

MAY 11, 2022

Dubbed IceApple, the.NET-based framework has been observed since late 2021 in multiple victim environments in geographically diverse locations with targets spanning the technology, academic and government sectors, according to CrowdStrike’s report.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 29, 2024

“The most significant risk for enterprises isn’t the speed at which they are applying critical patches; it comes from not applying the patches on every asset,” noted Brian Contos, CSO of Sevco Security. As of January 24th, Shadowserver researchers still detected 5,300 older and internet-exposed GitLab accounts.

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CSO Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2021

Introduced in January 2021 by the Wi-Fi Alliance, Wi-Fi 6E allows for an increased frequency band of 6 GHz, providing up to 1,200 MHz of additional spectrum compared to Wi-Fi 6. Wi-Fi 6E is a technical extension of the Wi-Fi 6 standard to deliver improved Wi-Fi capacity, less interference, and higher throughput.

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CSO Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Companies that do business on the internet or use network connections in any way, shape, or form are vulnerable to cyberattack. According to the 1H 2021 NETSCOUT Threat Intelligence Report , there were nearly 5.4 million distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in the first half of 2021.

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CSO Magazine

JULY 11, 2022

Akamai estimates that roughly 83% of internet traffic is API-based. Other studies such as those from Salt Security state that API attacks increased over 600% from 2021 to 2022, and Gartner predicts that 90% of web-enabled applications will have broader attack surfaces due to exposed API’s.

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CSO Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Research has shown that pharma leaders investing in the Internet of Things (IoT) are better equipped to overcome unforeseen challenges. For these proactive pharmaceutical leaders, two major areas have become increasingly important: preventing network outages and increasing security against cyberattacks.

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CSO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Just as the emergence of COVID-19 led to changes in how threat actors launched attacks, the return to work and school that began in the second half of 2021 (before Omicron reared its ugly head in November) resulted in a number of changes on the part of cyber attackers. terabits per second using server-based botnets in 2H 2021.

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

There has been massive growth in the encryption of Internet traffic—from 50% in January 2014 to 95% as of March 20, 2021, according to Google’s Transparency Report. This rise is a double-edged sword. It’s a good thing that organizations are using encryption to protect critical network data.

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CSO Magazine

MAY 18, 2022

According to security company Crowdstrike, Linux malware increased by 35% in 2021 compared to 2020. Instead, Crowdstrike reports, XorDDoS , Mirai and Mozi, the biggest Linux-based malware families, go after the low-hanging fruit of internet of things (IoT) devices. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

It is included in the September 2021 Cumulative Update and is not a replacement for patching. This was our recommended approach for Exchange deployments with internet access and for those who needed to quickly mitigate their risk while they prepared to update their servers.” To read this article in full, please click here

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 3, 2021

The Verizon DBIR 2021 points to some 85 percent of all breaches being because of a human element—as in a weakness being exploited. What are the most important cybersecurity risks for 2021? The worst is yet to come and 2021 might, unfortunately, see even bigger attacks realized. Ransomware is at the top.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 7, 2021

She has 15 years of experience, and yet she's not a CSO at any large organization, rather than curse her fate, she decided to help others, so that maybe they can become the CSOs, and just maybe start to address the diversity problem in InfoSec. In a moment we'll meet a woman who has four graduate degrees in it, plus an MBA.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 7, 2021

She has 15 years of experience, and yet she's not a CSO at any large organization, rather than curse her fate, she decided to help others, so that maybe they can become the CSOs, and just maybe start to address the diversity problem in InfoSec. In a moment we'll meet a woman who has four graduate degrees in it, plus an MBA.

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