A report published today by Zscaler finds an 18% increase in ransomware attacks, including one that involved a record $75 million payment that appears to have been made to the Dark Angels ransomware group. The post Report: An 18% Increase…
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Hacked Blood Testing Provider Expects Autumn Recovery Date
Hacked blood testing provider Synnovis says more services are back online but full restoration not expected until early autumn This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: Hacked Blood Testing Provider Expects Autumn Recovery Date
DigiCert to Revoke Thousands of Certificates Following Domain Validation Error
DigiCert, a leading digital certificate provider, has announced the revocation of thousands of certificates due to a domain validation error. This decision follows the discovery of a critical issue in their Domain Control Validation (DCV) process, which has affected approximately…
The Critical Role of Response Time in Cybersecurity
In today’s digital landscape, cybercriminals pose a perpetual threat to organisations. We are repeatedly reminded of the consequences of inadequate cybersecurity measures. In a cybersecurity breach, response time is critical to mitigating damage. Most cyber-attacks are like wildfires. Without the…
Ostrich Cyber-Risk Recognized in 2024 Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Cyber-Risk Management
Ostrich Cyber-Risk announces its inclusion in the 2024 Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Cyber-Risk Management as a Sample Vendor for Cyber-Risk Quantification (CRQ), earning a “High” benefit rating. This recognition underscores Ostrich’s commitment to continuous innovation and leadership in the cyber…
Detecting Externally Facing Resources
In November 2009, as coach of a youth baseball team, I received a Google Sheet with the names, birthdays, contact information, and team names for about 30 kids born between 1997 and 2000. More than 14 years later, I still…
OneDrive Phishing Scam Tricks Users into Running Malicious PowerShell Script
Cybersecurity researchers are warning about a new phishing campaign that targets Microsoft OneDrive users with the aim of executing a malicious PowerShell script. “This campaign heavily relies on social engineering tactics to deceive users into executing a PowerShell script, thereby…
Ostrich Cyber-Risk Recognized in 2024 Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Cyber-Risk Management
Ostrich Cyber-Risk announces its inclusion in the 2024 Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Cyber-Risk Management as a Sample Vendor for Cyber-Risk Quantification (CRQ), earning a “High” benefit rating. This recognition underscores Ostrich’s commitment to continuous innovation and leadership in the cyber…
Proofpoint phishing palaver plagues millions with ‘perfectly spoofed’ emails from IBM, Nike, Disney, others
They DKIM here, they DKIM there A huge phishing campaign exploited a security blind-spot in Proofpoint’s email filtering systems to send an average of three million “perfectly spoofed” messages a day purporting to be from Disney, IBM, Nike, Best Buy,…
Ostrich Cyber-Risk Recognized in 2024 Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Cyber-Risk Management
Ostrich Cyber-Risk announces its inclusion in the 2024 Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Cyber-Risk Management as a Sample Vendor for Cyber-Risk Quantification (CRQ), earning a “High” benefit rating. This recognition underscores Ostrich’s commitment to continuous innovation and leadership in the cyber…
VMware ESXi Flaw Exploited by Ransomware Groups for Admin Access
A recently patched security flaw impacting VMware ESXi hypervisors has been actively exploited by “several” ransomware groups to gain elevated permissions and deploy file-encrypting malware. The attacks involve the exploitation of CVE-2024-37085 (CVSS score: 6.8), an Active Directory integration authentication…
X allows users to turn off GROK AI Training due to data concerns
X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, is introducing a new feature that allows users to opt out of its AI training program involving Grok. Grok is an AI assistant developed by xAI, a company owned by Elon…
Ostrich Cyber-Risk Recognized in 2024 Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Cyber-Risk Management
Ostrich Cyber-Risk announces its inclusion in the 2024 Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Cyber-Risk Management as a Sample Vendor for Cyber-Risk Quantification (CRQ), earning a “High” benefit rating. This recognition underscores Ostrich’s commitment to continuous innovation and leadership in the cyber…
Ostrich Cyber-Risk Recognized in 2024 Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Cyber-Risk Management
Ostrich Cyber-Risk announces its inclusion in the 2024 Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Cyber-Risk Management as a Sample Vendor for Cyber-Risk Quantification (CRQ), earning a “High” benefit rating. This recognition underscores Ostrich’s commitment to continuous innovation and leadership in the cyber…
2024-07-30 – Traffic analysis exercise: You dirty rat!
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Ostrich Cyber-Risk Recognized in 2024 Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Cyber-Risk Management
Ostrich Cyber-Risk announces its inclusion in the 2024 Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Cyber-Risk Management as a Sample Vendor for Cyber-Risk Quantification (CRQ), earning a “High” benefit rating. This recognition underscores Ostrich’s commitment to continuous innovation and leadership in the cyber…
Ostrich Cyber-Risk Recognized in 2024 Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Cyber-Risk Management
Ostrich Cyber-Risk announces its inclusion in the 2024 Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Cyber-Risk Management as a Sample Vendor for Cyber-Risk Quantification (CRQ), earning a “High” benefit rating. This recognition underscores Ostrich’s commitment to continuous innovation and leadership in the cyber…
Review: Action1 – Simple and powerful patch management
Although endpoint anti-malware and other security controls are now standard at the operating system level, keeping all endpoint software up-to-date and secure remains an open issue for many organizations. Patch management is not yet a commodity, and substantial improvements can…
Ostrich Cyber-Risk Recognized in 2024 Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Cyber-Risk Management
Ostrich Cyber-Risk announces its inclusion in the 2024 Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Cyber-Risk Management as a Sample Vendor for Cyber-Risk Quantification (CRQ), earning a “High” benefit rating. This recognition underscores Ostrich’s commitment to continuous innovation and leadership in the cyber…
Coding practices: The role of secure programming languages
Safety and quality are not features that can be added through testing — they must be integral to the design. Opting for a safer or more secure language or language subset during implementation can eliminate entire categories of vulnerabilities. The…