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ReliaQuest announced the appointment of Kara Wilson to its Board of Directors and Alex Bender as its Chief Marketing Officer. “Providing world-class cybersecurity capabilities requires a world-class team, working together with the common goal of buildi… Continue reading ReliaQuest appoints Kara Wilson to its Board of Directors and Alex Bender as CMO
A Mimecast report details how threat actors targeted remote workers during the first year of the pandemic, March 2020 – February 2021. The report describes how attack volume surged by 48% during the first year of the pandemic, with sudden increases in … Continue reading Attack volume surged by 48% during the first year of the pandemic
The pandemic has changed how many companies operate in a short period of time. Over the last year we’ve witnessed most organizations with office-based workforces having to transition to remote working. Now, with the UK government’s roadmap out of lockd… Continue reading Hidden areas of security and the future of hybrid working
Attackers behind the SolarWinds hacking campaign successfully stole Mimecast source code as part of their sweeping espionage operation, the email security firm said in an incident report published Tuesday. The hackers, which U.S. government officials suggested are “likely” Russian actors, “accessed and downloaded a limited number of our source code repositories, but we found no evidence of any modifications to our source code nor do we believe there was any impact on our products,” Mimecast said in the incident report. Mimecast added that it has replaced all compromised servers and that it has no reason to believe the hackers accessed email or archive content of customers. Mimecast had previously disclosed that the hackers compromised a security certificate the company used to secure connections. The latest revelation, which comes more than two months after its disclosure the certificate was compromised, now underscores just how long it may take to get a […]
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COVID-19 propelled the world of IT years into the future. Organizations considering long-term digital transformation plans were abruptly forced to accelerate their timeline, so employees could work remotely amid shelter-in-place orders. While this shif… Continue reading Protecting the digital workplace with an integrated security strategy
A roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, January 2021.
Throughout January further details about the scale and sophistication of SolarWinds suspe… Continue reading Cyber Security Roundup for February 2021
Email security firm Mimecast on Tuesday confirmed that the hackers behind the SolarWinds espionage campaign compromised a software certificate the firm uses to secure connections to Microsoft cloud services. The revelation underscores how deeply embedded the suspected Russian hackers have been in major technology companies as part of a campaign that has also breached multiple U.S. federal agencies. The hackers may have exfiltrated “certain encrypted service account credentials created by customers hosted” in the U.S. and the U.K., the new Mimecast statement reveals. The company said it wasn’t aware of the hackers decrypting or abusing any of the stolen credentials. But it still told its U.S. and U.K.-hosted customers to reset their credentials as a precaution. Mimecast, which says it has 39,000 customers around the world, offers an attractive target for spies looking to burrow into high-value organizations. A stolen software certificate of this type could allow an intruder to […]
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Mimecast, a global email security provider, on Tuesday said that one of its software security certificates had been breached by a “sophisticated threat actor” in a targeted operation to access customer emails. London-based Mimecast has a sprawling footprint, claiming some 39,000 customers around the world. The company said 10% of its customers use the particular software implementation involved in the breach, adding that attackers apparently targeted “a low single-digit number” of customers. The illicit access would have allowed attackers to spy on Mimecast clients. The hackers’ methods, and the fact that they targeted Microsoft’s cloud-based email services, have parallels with a suspected Russian hacking campaign that has used tainted software made by contractor SolarWinds to breach multiple U.S. government agencies. A person familiar with the matter told CyberScoop that investigators are examining whether the same attackers who breached SolarWinds also infiltrated Mimecast, a detail first reported by Reuters. “As a […]
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Mimecast announced the appointment of Shahriar Rafimayeri as chief information officer (CIO). In this role, Shahriar will oversee all aspects of the company’s global IT organization, including infrastructure and internal application technology. He will… Continue reading Mimecast appoints Shahriar Rafimayeri as CIO
Smartsheet announced Mimecast has selected Smartsheet to drive strategic enterprise initiatives across its organization, digitally transform its processes and better service its global customer base. “Digital transformation has become a key priority fo… Continue reading Mimecast selects Smartsheet to drive strategic enterprise initiatives across its org