Cyberattacks come in all shapes and forms. They are everywhere, and whether you know it or not, you’ve likely been a victim of one at some point. Even an occasional look at IT news will tell you just how widespread cybercrime is and how many areas of life it affects. Yet many
First American Financial Corp has been sued by a client following the data leak it suffered recently that exposed over 885 million records
The SANS Institute released a new cloud security report recently based on a survey of several hundred companies across the US, Asia, Europe, and Canada. The companies surveyed ranged from the small (under 1000 employees) to the very large (over 50000 employees) and represented a variety of industries including 32 percent
In a massive patch update on Tuesday, Adobe released security patches for 87 vulnerabilities in four of its products - Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Reader, Adobe Flash Player, and Adobe Media Encoder. As many as 84 of the 87 patches address vulnerabilities in Acrobat and Reader. Of these, 36 fall in the “information
We all receive malicious or spammy emails from time to time, and while most are easy to tell apart from legitimate mail, there are some that require greater attention to detect. An Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE), more commonly known as spam, may be an irritant, but it is not a threat to
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released its latest Binding Operational Directive (BOD 19-02), “Vulnerability Remediation Requirements for Internet-Accessible Systems”, this week. The directive supersedes BOD 15-01, “Critical Vulnerability Mitigation Requirement for Federal Civilian Executive Branch Departments and Agencies’ Internet-Accessible Systems”, which came out in 2015. BOD 15-01 required federal agencies
