Collaborate Disseminate
The cybersecurity industry is more well-informed than most, but even so, misconceptions arise and spread, helped along by the fact that the rise in cybersecurity incidents has led to substantial “pop culture” intrigue with all things cybersecurity. One… Continue reading Attackers vs. Hackers – Two *Very* Different Animals
With Election Day approaching, local governments need to be prepared for malware attacks on election infrastructure. Continue reading Georgia Election Data Hit in Ransomware Attack
Bad actors are using a message disguised as an official notification from the Outlook team to trick people into entering their credentials into a phishing website, leaking them in the process and exposing the company they work for. Phishing is one of t… Continue reading Fake Outlook Credential Upgrade Campaign Phishes for Employee Credentials
CVE-2020-2883 was patched in Oracle’s April 2020 Critical Patch Update – but proof of concept exploit code was published shortly after. Continue reading Oracle: Unpatched Versions of WebLogic App Server Under Active Attack
Officials revealed that malicious actors had succeeded in infiltrating the computer network serving New York’s state government. According to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), officials revealed on April 13 that New York’s Office of Informatio… Continue reading Bad Actors Infiltrated New York’s State Government Computer Network
Barbara Corcoran, one of the business moguls who head up the judging team on US TV’s “Shark Tank” investment show, has lost nearly $400,000 to an email scammer. According to media reports, a scammer – posing as CorcoranR… Continue reading “Shark Tank” TV star loses almost $400,000 in Business Email Compromise scam
Privilege escalation happens when a malicious user of an account or application gains access to the privileges of another user account in the target system. The attacker can then use the newly gained privileges to steal confidential data, run administr… Continue reading What Is Privilege Escalation and Why Is It Important?