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Scattered Spider Using RansomHub and Qilin Ransomware Against Victims

We previously reported on the concerning mash-up of worldwide cybercriminals, known as Scattered Spider, working together to attack victims. New reports from Microsoft and others indicate that in the second quarter of...more

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Black Basta Exploits Microsoft Zero-Day After Patch

It is being reported that Black Basta (aptly named) exploited a Microsoft zero-day prior to Microsoft’s release of a patch for the vulnerability back in March....more

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Patch, Patch, Patch: Updates for Fortinet, Microsoft, and Adobe Products

Patching vulnerabilities is a difficult task. Keeping up with and patching them without disrupting users’ experience is tricky. Nonetheless, it is a necessary evil and crucial to cybersecurity hygiene and incident prevention....more

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Kudos to Microsoft’s Takedown of Storm-1152

There was a big win for the good guys against the bad guys this week. On December 13, 2023, after obtaining an order from the federal court in the Southern District of New York to seize U.S. based infrastructure and take...more

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AI Legal News Summer Roundup: Edition 3

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Welcome to the third edition of our AI Legal News Summer Roundup! After five class actions were filed between June 28 and July 11 (as reported on in our first edition of this series), on July 21, another class action lawsuit...more

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Best Patch Management Strategy for Remote Workers

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Like it or not, the remote workforce is here to stay. Statistics show that employees say they are more productive working from home, and even before the global pandemic, there had been a 44% growth in the remote workforce...more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - October 2022

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CYBERSECURITY - CISA Recommends Following Microsoft’s Mitigation for Zero Day Exploits - Microsoft recently issued mitigation steps for vulnerabilities that are being actively exploited by threat actors. Microsoft...more

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CISA Recommends Following Microsoft’s Mitigation for Zero Day Exploits

Microsoft recently issued mitigation steps for vulnerabilities that are being actively exploited by threat actors. Microsoft stated that it is aware that two vulnerabilities are being actively exploited to access users’...more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - April 2022 #3

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CYBERSECURITY - DOJ Takes Down RaidForums' Website - In an action against what has been described as one of the largest hacker forums in the world, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on April 12, 2022, that...more

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Patch Tuesday Release Includes Fix for Actively-Exploited Flaw

Microsoft released its monthly patches this week to fix 128 vulnerabilities, including 10 rated as critical, 115 as important, and three flagged as moderately severe. One of the vulnerabilities (CVE-2022-24521 Windows Common...more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - November 2021 #2

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CYBERSECURITY - November's "Patch Tuesday" Includes 55 Patches - Staying current with Microsoft’s monthly patches is challenging, yet critical for one’s cybersecurity program. This week, Microsoft’s November Patch...more

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November’s Patch Tuesday Includes 55 Patches

Staying current with Microsoft’s monthly patches is challenging, yet critical for one’s cybersecurity program. This week, Microsoft’s November Patch Tuesday released 55 patches, six of which were categorized as “critical,”...more

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SolarWinds Hackers Focus on Downstream Vendors as Next Victims

In a blog post entitled “New activity from Russian actor Nobelium,” Microsoft’s V.P. of Customer Security & Trust Tom Burt discussed a recent alert issued by the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) regarding the...more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - October 2021 #2

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CYBERSECURITY - Apple + Microsoft Release Patches for Identified Vulnerabilities - This week, both Apple and Microsoft issued patches to fix serious zeroday vulnerabilities that should be applied as soon as possible. That...more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - July 2021 #2

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CYBERSECURITY - Microsoft Issues Emergency Software Update for PrintNightmare Zero Day Vulnerability - Following the release of a U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (US-CERT) Coordination Center...more

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Microsoft Issues Emergency Software Update for PrintNightmare Zero Day Vulnerability

Following the release of a U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (US-CERT)  Coordination Center VulNote “for a critical remote code execution vulnerability in the Windows Print spooler services” on June 30,...more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - July 2021

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CYBERSECURITY - Law Enforcement Takes Down DoubleVPN - I love seeing another win for law enforcement in the cyber context. Servers and web domains owned by DoubleVPN, a virtual private network, were seized recently...more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - June 2021

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CYBERSECURTY - U.S. CISA + Cyber Command Warns of Critical Flaw in VMware - Although a patch has been available by VMware since May 25, 2021, the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure...more

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NSA Issues New Warning About Four Critical Patches to Microsoft Exchange Servers

The National Security Agency (NSA) recently issued a warning to private industry about four zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server versions 2013, 2016, and 2019 used on-premises....more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - April 2021 #3

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CYBERSECURITY - Cisco/Talos Researchers Find Attackers Using Slack and Discord to Distribute Malware - Another example of the resiliency and creativity of cyber-attackers is outlined in a new blog by Cisco/Talos...more

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Privacy Perils: Beware Brand Phishing

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We often think of phony financial institution emails as a bad actor’s phishing scheme of choice to capture confidential bank account numbers or other private financial information. While those phishing emails certainly do...more

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UK National Cyber Security Centre Issues Security Alert for SharePoint Vulnerability

The UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) issued an alert on October 16, 2020, to raise awareness “of a new remote code execution vulnerability (CVE – 2020 – 16952)”, which affects Microsoft’s SharePoint product....more

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Security Requirements in a COVID-19 Remote Work World

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The COVID-19 outbreak has certainly changed the way that we view business operations in the short term but possibly forever.  While many organizations have business continuity plans in place, most plans only account for...more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - June 2020

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Alabama City Hit with Ransomware - On June 5, 2020, Florence, Alabama’s information technology systems were hit with ransomware by the DoppelPaymer group demanding a ransom payment of $378,000 in bitcoin. Mayor Steve Holt...more

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DHS Warns Windows 10 Users of Exploit Code

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) cybersecurity advisory arm issued a warning on its website that “[M]alicious cyber actors are targeting unpatched systems” with a new exploit code that on unpatched systems could...more

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