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GUEST ESSAY: How stealth, persistence allowed Wipro attacker to plunder supply chain

The Last Watchdog

The recent network breach of Wipro , a prominent outsourcing company based in India, serves as a stunning reminder that digital transformation cuts two ways. Our rising dependence on business systems that leverage cloud services and the gig economy to accomplish high-velocity innovation has led to a rise in productivity.

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MY TAKE: Log4j’s big lesson – legacy tools, new tech are both needed to secure modern networks

The Last Watchdog

By no means has the cybersecurity community been blind to the complex security challenges spinning out of digital transformation. Its rather mundane function is to record events in a log for a system administrator to review and act upon, later. Log4j, for instance, is a ubiquitous logging library.

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MY TAKE: A path for SMBs to achieve security maturity: start small controlling privileged accounts

The Last Watchdog

The challenge of embracing digital transformation while also quelling the accompanying cyber risks has never been greater for small- and mid-sized businesses. The Colonial Pipeline ransomware debacle and the near poisoning of the Oldsmar, Fla. Related: How ‘PAM’ improves authentication.

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MY TAKE: Memory hacking arises as a go-to tactic to carry out deep, persistent incursions

The Last Watchdog

It was designed to make it convenient for system administrators to automate tasks and manage configurations across all Windows endpoints and servers in a company network. Another branch of attacks revolve around ransomware, crypto jacking, denial of service attacks and malware spreading activities. Addressing the exposure.

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