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  • October 26, 2022

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Supply Chain Attacks or Vulnerabilities Experienced by 80% of Orgs, BlackBerry Finds

The report highlighted the enormous business costs of supply chain software attacks

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  • October 26, 2022

ThreatWise TV: Exploring Recent Incident Response Trends

Today we’re examining some of the revelations in the Q3 Cisco Talos Incident Response Trends Report. This document is an anonymized look at of all the engagements that the Cisco Talos Incident Response team have been involved in over the previous three months. It also features threat intelligence from our team of researchers and analysts.   […]

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Australia Increases Fines for Massive Data Breaches

After suffering two large, and embarrassing, data breaches in recent weeks, the Australian government increased the fine for serious data breaches from $2.2 million to a minimum of $50 million. (That’s $50 million AUD, or $32 million USD.) This is a welcome change. The problem is one of incentives, and Australia has now increased the […]

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Risks that third-party vendors pose to outsourcing banks

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. The banking and financial sector is known for its dependence on third-party vendors that help provide customers with quality financial products and services. It is one of the most interconnected sectors, making it one of the most vulnerable to cyberattacks. And because third parties operate through […]

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  • October 26, 2022

How to update your Windows driver blocklist to keep malicious drivers away

For many years, attackers have used and abused various ways to get on our systems. From phishing to tricking us to click on websites, if an attacker can get their code on our systems they are no longer our systems. Attackers will even invest the time, energy, and expense to get their malicious drivers approved […]

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Hackers Actively Exploiting Cisco AnyConnect and GIGABYTE Drivers Vulnerabilities

Cisco has warned of active exploitation attempts targeting a pair of two-year-old security flaws in the Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client for Windows. Tracked as CVE-2020-3153 (CVSS score: 6.5) and CVE-2020-3433 (CVSS score: 7.8), the vulnerabilities could enable local authenticated attackers to perform DLL hijacking and copy arbitrary files to system directories with elevated privileges.

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Ransomware Threat Shifts from US to EMEA and APAC

SonicWall figures show overall attacks trending down

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See Tickets Discloses Major Card Data Breach

Unspecified number of customers impacted over 2.5 years

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