Incident Response
Report Surfaces Top Vulnerabilities of 2022
Rezilion, a vulnerability management platform provider, shared a list of the top vulnerabilities discovered in 2022. The report suggested that organizations should address these before the start of the New Year if ...
Cymulate Identifies Cyberattack Technique That Evades EDR Platforms
Cymulate, a cybersecurity posture assessment platform provider, shared a technique, dubbed Blindside, that enables malware to evade some endpoint detection and response (EDR) platforms and other monitoring/control systems. Mike DeNapoli, director of ...
The Data Pipeline and Digital Transformation
Companies are generating, ingesting and consuming massive data streams, which are critical for business success. Because of this, Ameesh Divatia, co-founder and CEO of Baffle, believes that digital transformation will accelerate companies’ ...
GitHub Secret Scanning is now Free (as in Beer)
Microsoft’s GitHub source control service will help stop devs accidentally embedding secrets in public code repositories. It’s a big problem ...
Operation PowerOFF: DDoS Sites Denied Service (by US, UK, Europol)
Around 50 so-called “booter” DDoS sites have been nuked by international law enforcement. And seven of their alleged administrators have been charged ...
Zero-Trust: Restoring Resilience in the Cloud
Digital transformation and cloud computing have vastly expanded the modern attack surface—which now encompasses dispersed environments, distributed workloads, and assets sprawling across locations. Perimeter defenses alone cannot keep organizations secure 100 percent ...
Behind the Breach: How CrowdStrike uses Obsidian in Incident Responses
Last week, Tim Parisi, the Director of Incident Response for CrowdStrike’s world-class IR services team, published a blog detailing “multiple investigations into an intrusion campaign targeting telecommunications and business process outsourcing (BPO) ...
Log4Shell Vulnerabilities Still Plague Organizations
Almost exactly one year after Log4Shell sent security teams scrambling to patch, more than seven in 10 (72%) of organizations are still vulnerable to the flaw. These were among the results of ...
TikTok Ban: Texas is Fourth State to Join; Indiana Sues
Four U.S. states have now banned TikTok on government workers’ devices. Plus, Indiana has sued the app’s owner ...
Operational Resilience: More than Disaster Recovery
To contend with the explosion of cybercrime and its impact on business operations, many organizations are updating their disaster recovery plans to include cyber incident response. Many of the processes and guidelines ...
