Criminal Hackers Attacking Hospitals Using Ransomware

If you know how to search – the keywords are important, then you will find other interesting bits of information. Talos Blogpost:  Cisco Talos Advisory on Adversaries Targeting the Healthcare and Public Health Sector Use keywords:  Indicators of Compromise – and cobalt strike. Because interesting to note cobalt strike is a tool that the bad … Read more

What Are Top 3 Cybersecurity Worries For SMB?

Since it is October and it is Cybersecurity Awareness month, I like to acknowledge this event at least once – so why not do a top 3 items to be worried about? Out of the myriad of items to discuss from past discussions: #1   Phishing and spam attacks through email, text, or any level (social … Read more

VPN Vulnerabilities show Work From Home(WFH) Weakness

NSA has a cybersecurity  advisory It says that Pulse SecureTM, Palo Alto GlobalProtectTM, and Fortinet FortigateTM VPN(Virtual Private Network) products have vulnerabilities 3 of them VPN CVEs being currently exploited include but may not be limited to: CVE-2019-11510 and CVE-2019-1153 which allow for remote arbitrary file downloads and remote code execution on Pulse Connect Secure … Read more

Who Is Responsible For Cyber Attacks? CEO or CIO?

Technewsworld has an interesting article: Cybersecurity Conundrum: Who’s Responsible for Securing IoT Networks? I do not want to focus on the IoT(Internet of Things) angle, instead pointing the spotlight  at the responsibility of the Cyber breach (assuming they get breached): {Global research and advisory firm Gartner predicts that, by 2024, 75 percent of CEOs will … Read more

Patching Anomalies Causing Security Problems

Zerologon Patches Roll Out Beyond Microsoft What if you have an older server? Like a Windows Server 2008? The Zerologon was a problem that was patched in August on a patch Tuesday of course. Race to patch as Microsoft confirms Zerologon attacks in the wild article also from ComputerWeekly.com Bottom line is that the vulnerability … Read more