Another zero-day vulnerability in SolarWinds Serv-U product exploited by cyber criminals

Colonial Pipeline paid $5 million to the DarkSide ransomware group to restore operations within hours after a ransomware attack paralysed fuel supplies across the U.S. eastern seaboard, Bloomberg has revealed. Last Friday, Colonial Pipeline announced via a press release that it suffered a ransomware attack and had to take certain systems offline to contain the…

Are you doing enough to prevent scammers from hijacking your social media accounts? Even if you have chosen a strong, unique password for your online presence and enabled two-factor authentication it’s possible that you’ve overlooked another way in which online criminals could commandeer your social media accounts and spam out a message to your followers….

“I think part of the public is frankly ahead of where the public debate is because there’s just so much information available online. People see the reported comments of the ambassador and the vice ambassador here, as well as the spokesman out of Beijing.” He said he wanted to have a “more frank discussion with…

Attacks targeting critical infrastructure have been on the rise in recent years. Back in 2019, for instance, 56% of utility professionals responsible for overseeing risk in their organizations’ operational technology (OT) assets told Siemens and the Ponemon Institute that they experience at least one shutdown or operational data loss event a year. That’s about the…

A 22-year-old UK citizen has been arrested in connection with a 2020 hack that promised a doubling of Bitcoin promised through high-profile Twitter accounts, including Apple’s. The Department of Justice said that Joseph O’Connor was arrested by Spanish authorities on Wednesday in Estepona, Spain. U.S. officials had sent a request for his arrest, as O’Connor…

The zero trust model is going mainstream, and for good reason. The rise in advanced attacks, plus IT trends that include the move to hybrid cloud and remote work, demand more exacting and granular defenses.  Zero trust ensures verification and authorization for every device, every application and every user gaining access to every resource. This…