Attacks & Breaches

Attacks & Breaches

Cold Boot Attack Method Leaves Laptops Vulnerable Cold Boot Attack Method Leaves Laptops Vulnerable

Most corporate computers are vulnerable to the cold boot attack, but there are many factors that make it difficult to pull off.

Oct 4, 2018

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Mark Zuckerberg Photographer: Pau Barrena/Bloomberg

Attacks & Breaches

Facebook Says Security Breach Affected About 50 Million Accounts Facebook Says Security Breach Affected About 50 Million Accounts

Sep 28, 2018

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Machine learning

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Artificial Intelligence Risk: Get Ready for AI-Powered Malware Artificial Intelligence Risk: Get Ready for AI-Powered Malware

Sep 12, 2018

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Scott Guthrie, executive VP of Cloud and Enterprise at Microsoft

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Azure Outage Proves the Hard Way that Availability Zones are a Good Idea Azure Outage Proves the Hard Way that Availability Zones are a Good Idea

byYevgeniy Sverdlik, Data Center Knowledge

Sep 12, 2018

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Attacks & Breaches

Schneider Exec on Why Triton Malware Still Matters Schneider Exec on Why Triton Malware Still Matters

byBrian Buntz, IoT World Today

Sep 7, 2018

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Attacks & Breaches

Malware Types Multiplying: Attackers Reuse Old Ransomware for Cryptocurrency Malware Malware Types Multiplying: Attackers Reuse Old Ransomware for Cryptocurrency Malware

Sep 5, 2018

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data center

Attacks & Breaches

Atlassian Buys OpsGenie to Expand in ServiceNow’s Market

Atlassian Buys OpsGenie to Expand in ServiceNow’s Market

Letter

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Add This to the List of 'New' Malware Types You Need to Look Out For: Snail Mail

Add This to the List of 'New' Malware Types You Need to Look Out For: Snail Mail

Cable trays inside a data center

Attacks & Breaches

Microsoft to Open-Source Its Secret Weapon Against Cloud Network Outages

Microsoft to Open-Source Its Secret Weapon Against Cloud Network Outages

byYevgeniy Sverdlik, Data Center Knowledge

Hackers Already Attacking Midterm Elections, Raising U.S. Alarms

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Hackers Already Attacking Midterm Elections, Raising U.S. Alarms

Hackers Already Attacking Midterm Elections, Raising U.S. Alarms

MICROSOFT XBOX ONEX

Attacks & Breaches

Microsoft Says It Stopped Cyberattacks on Three 2018 Candidates

Microsoft Says It Stopped Cyberattacks on Three 2018 Candidates

First Line of Defense in U.S. Elections Has Critical Weaknesses

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First Line of Defense in U.S. Elections Has Critical Weaknesses

First Line of Defense in U.S. Elections Has Critical Weaknesses

Bitcoin

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The Rise of Cryptojacking: Virtual Currency Mining Malware Gets More Sophisticated

The Rise of Cryptojacking: Virtual Currency Mining Malware Gets More Sophisticated

sami 2

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Is Windows Defender Mature Enough to Replace Third-Party Anti-virus/Anti-malware?

Is Windows Defender Mature Enough to Replace Third-Party Anti-virus/Anti-malware?

byAdaptiva Guest Blogger

Tech Industry Signs Accord to Protect People From Cyberattacks

Attacks & Breaches

Tech Industry Signs Accord to Protect People From Cyberattacks

Tech Industry Signs Accord to Protect People From Cyberattacks

Uber Breach Exposed Names, Emails of More Than 20 Million Users

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Uber Breach Exposed Names, Emails of More Than 20 Million Users

Uber Breach Exposed Names, Emails of More Than 20 Million Users

Let's Stop Giving Retailers a Free Pass on Data Breaches

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Let's Stop Giving Retailers a Free Pass on Data Breaches

Let's Stop Giving Retailers a Free Pass on Data Breaches

password, security, government networks

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Newly Found Malware Deliberately Avoids Government Networks

Newly Found Malware Deliberately Avoids Government Networks

byChristine Hall

cybersecurity

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Here's What Chief Security Officers Are Worrying About in 2018

Here's What Chief Security Officers Are Worrying About in 2018

Equifax

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Equifax Executives Cleared by Board Over Post-Breach Sales

Equifax Executives Cleared by Board Over Post-Breach Sales

Digital background for computer hard drive

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Security Sense: You’ll Be Judged by Today’s Standards for Yesterday’s Breaches

Security Sense: You’ll Be Judged by Today’s Standards for Yesterday’s Breaches

John Savill FAQs on IT Pro

Attacks & Breaches

Storage Spaces Direct and Clusters; Anti-Malware in Nano Server; Managing Egress traffic in Azure

Storage Spaces Direct and Clusters; Anti-Malware in Nano Server; Managing Egress traffic in Azure

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Equifax Says Unpatched Apache Struts Flaw Behind Massive Security Breach

Equifax Says Unpatched Apache Struts Flaw Behind Massive Security Breach

byNicole Henderson

Padlock on credit cards

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Equifax Says Cyberattack May Have Hit 143 Million Customers

Equifax Says Cyberattack May Have Hit 143 Million Customers

Man with headset watching computer monitor

Attacks & Breaches

Dyn Might Have Been Collateral Damage in Mirai Attack on Gaming Infrastructure

Dyn Might Have Been Collateral Damage in Mirai Attack on Gaming Infrastructure

byNicole Henderson

Best Practices to Secure your Windows Server and Cloud from Attacks and Ransomware

Attacks & Breaches

Best Practices to Secure your Windows Server and Cloud from Attacks and Ransomware

Best Practices to Secure your Windows Server and Cloud from Attacks and Ransomware

Petya May Not be the Ransomware Everyone Thought it Was

Attacks & Breaches

Petya May Not be the Ransomware Everyone Thought it Was

Petya May Not be the Ransomware Everyone Thought it Was

byNicole Henderson

The biggest concern for IT decisionmakers is losing control over IoT devices according to a new survey

Attacks & Breaches

Report: IoT Security Breach Costs Smaller Firms 13 Percent of Annual Revenue

Report: IoT Security Breach Costs Smaller Firms 13 Percent of Annual Revenue

byNicole Henderson

How to defend against DDoS attacks like the one on the Dyn DNS service

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How to defend against DDoS attacks like the one on the Dyn DNS service

How to defend against DDoS attacks like the one on the Dyn DNS service

Detecting “WannaCry” Ransomware with AlienVault® USM™

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Detecting “WannaCry” Ransomware with AlienVault® USM™

Detecting “WannaCry” Ransomware with AlienVault® USM™

Worried About the Global Security Breach? Here's Whether You Should Freak Out

Attacks & Breaches

Worried About the Global Security Breach? Here's Whether You Should Freak Out

Worried About the Global Security Breach? Here's Whether You Should Freak Out

byLisa Schmeiser

Stolen Laptop Leads to $2.5M HIPAA Breach Penalty

Attacks & Breaches

Stolen Laptop Leads to $2.5M HIPAA Breach Penalty

Stolen Laptop Leads to $2.5M HIPAA Breach Penalty

byData Center Knowledge

Servers

Attacks & Breaches

IT Can Learn a Thing or Two from This $100M Email Phishing Case update from March 2017

IT Can Learn a Thing or Two from This $100M Email Phishing Case update from March 2017

byData Center Knowledge

$100M Email Phishing Case Offers Lessons Learned for IT

Attacks & Breaches

$100M Email Phishing Case Offers Lessons Learned for IT

$100M Email Phishing Case Offers Lessons Learned for IT

DB Ransom Attacks Spread to CouchDB and Hadoop

Attacks & Breaches

DB Ransom Attacks Spread to CouchDB and Hadoop

DB Ransom Attacks Spread to CouchDB and Hadoop

byChristine Hall

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