by Shawn | Apr 23, 2021 | Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Security, Security Breach
In the security of the remote-work world, SaaS apps have become an enticing vector of choice for bad actors. Just think of the typical employee, working off-site, untrained in security measures, and how their access or privileges increase the risk of sensitive data...
by Shawn | Apr 21, 2021 | Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Security, Security Breach
Picking the perfect password comes down to a battle between two competing priorities: creating safe passwords that are lengthy and unique, and creating ones you can remember. You might think to yourself, I already have more passwords than I need! I’ve created...
by Shawn | Apr 19, 2021 | Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Network Security, Security, Security Breach
In what’s likely to be a goldmine for bad actors, personal information associated with approximately 533 million Facebook users worldwide has been leaked on a popular cybercrime forum for free—which was harvested by hackers in 2019 using a Facebook...
by Shawn | Apr 16, 2021 | Security
Enterprise security leaders say physical security solutions are more important due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In the 2021 Smart Security Trends Report from cloud-based access control company Brivo, more than 500 U.S.-based physical security and facility management...
by Shawn | Apr 14, 2021 | Computer Networking, Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Security, Security Breach
Apple has released security updates to address an iOS zero-day vulnerability in multiple products. According to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), an attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected device....
by Shawn | Apr 12, 2021 | Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Security, Security Breach
New research into 5G architecture has uncovered a security flaw in its network slicing and virtualized network functions that could be exploited to allow data access and denial of service attacks between different network slices on a mobile operator’s 5G...
by Shawn | Apr 9, 2021 | Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Security, Security Breach
This appears to be one of the biggest ransomware demands to date, BleepingComputer reports. After inquiries, Acer did not provide a definitive answer if they had suffered a REvil ransomware attack. Instead, they said, “Companies like us are constantly under...
by Shawn | Apr 7, 2021 | Cybersecurity, Security
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has warned of critical security shortcomings in the GE Universal Relay (UR) family of power management devices. “Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to access...
by Shawn | Apr 5, 2021 | Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Security, Security Breach, zero trust
Google has disclosed that a now-patched vulnerability affecting Android devices that use Qualcomm chipsets is being weaponized by adversaries to launch targeted attacks using the zero-day vulnerability. Tracked as CVE-2020-11261 (CVSS score 8.4), the flaw concerns an...
by Shawn | Apr 2, 2021 | Access Control, Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Network Security, Security, Security Breach
Cybersecurity researchers on Sunday disclosed multiple critical vulnerabilities in remote student monitoring software Netop Vision Pro that a malicious attacker could abuse to execute arbitrary code and take over Windows computers. “These findings allow for...
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