Top news of the week: 17.02.2022.
Companies And Services
Russian State-Sponsored Cyber Actors Target Cleared Defense Contractor Networks to Obtain Sensitive U.S. Defense Information and Technology
Actions to Help Protect Against Russian State-Sponsored Malicious Cyber Activity: • Enforce multifactor authentication. • Enforce strong, unique passwords. • Enable M365 Unified Audit Logs. ...
Shields Up
Every organization in the United States is at risk from cyber threats that can disrupt essential services and potentially result in impacts to public safety. Over the past year, cyber ...
Microsoft, Oracle, Apache and Apple vulnerabilities added to CISA catalog
One of the vulnerabilities -- a Microsoft Windows SAM local privilege escalation vulnerability -- has a remediation date of February 24.
New SEC cybersecurity rules for private equity firms could bring learning curve
The Securities and Exchange Commission last week proposed new cybersecurity rules for private equity firms that would essentially bring the segment of the financial industry more in line ...
Forcing ‘gotcha’ security adherence can backfire, leaving financial organization even more vulnerable
One expert compares aggressive or tricky security testing to ambulance chasing sales tactics, creating a negative association that gets in the way of the constructive relationship building ...
The Week in Ransomware - February 11th 2022 - Maze, Egregor decryptors
We saw the Maze ransomware developers reemerge briefly this week as they shared the master decryption keys for the Egregor, Maze, and Sekhmet ransomware operations.
After new investment, ThriveDX has $205 million to tackle cybersecurity skills gap
The concept of venture going to a business focused on education and training, rather than emerging technology, is not a typical one. But it's acknowledgement that technology alone will not ...
Feds say goodbye to ‘information sharing,’ hello to ‘operational collaboration’
As the term information sharing has lost some of its luster, federal officials are rebranding their partnership with the private sector as something that goes deeper than the mere sharing ...