Cyber Defense Advisors

Month: October 2022

NetWalker ransomware affiliate sentenced to 20 years by Florida court

Judge tells the accused that if he hadn’t pleaded guilty, “I would have given you life.”

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Giving Away the Keys to Your Backups? Here’s How to Keep Out Hackers

As threat actors’ sophistication has grown dramatically in the last few years, organizations haven’t kept up with implementing the necessary countermeasure controls.

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Canadian Sentenced 20 Years in US Prison For Ransomware Attacks

Sebastien Vachon-Desjardins, 35, was also ordered to forfeit $21.5m

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CISOs, boards not always on the same page

Most boards of directors understand the risk, but many will not invest more in cybersecurity and have different concerns about the impact of a breach. The post CISOs, boards not always on the same page appeared first on TechRepublic.

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NetSPI Raises $410 Million in Growth Funding from KKR

New investment to fuel the offensive security leader’s record-breaking growth and innovation pipeline.

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CISA Advisory Details How Hackers Targeted Defense Industrial Base Organization

The document was jointly released by CISA with the FBI and NSA

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Default VPC Security Group Names and Set Rules

ACM.71 Identify and explicitly configure all networking in your AWS Account This is a continuation of my series of posts on Automating Cybersecurity Metrics. When you create an AWS VPC as we did with our earlier automated VPC creation, you will get an associated security group by default. Automate Creation of a VPC Unfortunately, you cannot delete […]

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Australia’s Data Breaches Continue With Telstra’s Third-Party Supplier Hacked

The data posted on the internet by the hackers was from 2017 and reportedly “basic in nature”

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Telstra Telecom Suffers Data Breach Potentially Exposing Employee Information

Australia’s largest telecommunications company Telstra disclosed that it was the victim of a data breach through a third-party, nearly two weeks after Optus reported a breach of its own. “There has been no breach of Telstra’s systems,” Narelle Devine, the company’s chief information security officer for the Asia Pacific region, said. “And no customer account data […]

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