Object storage can help healthcare organizations cost-efficiently scale to meet unexpected demands, manage data more effectively, and protect against the rapidly growing ransomware threat.
Cyber Security
Cyber criminals, state-sponsored hackers and even the occasional disgruntled employee are constantly looking to gain unauthorized access for a variety of purposes: theft of money, cyber espionage, personal information for sale or for use in scams, and damage to critical infrastructure for just a few of the most common.
So how does an organization mitigate an entire world full of continual cyber attacks? Just as buildings have a number of necessary elements of physical security: access control, cameras, alarms and so on; there are similar key elements of cyber security that are absolutely vital for just about any modern business.
It starts with identifying and closing the most common doors that attackers use. For example, phishing attacks on employees are far and away the most common initial point of entry. The breach of even a low-level employee account can quickly turn into an escalation in access privileges and the ability to reach sensitive information. This is also true of smart devices, which are generally more poorly secured than computers and phones.
A new password leak, the largest to date, contains over 8.4 billion credentials among which may have been the account used to get into Colonial Pipeline's network.
Verizon’s DBIR finds that 82% of data breaches logged in 2021 involved a "human element" such as falling for phishing, re-use of stolen credentials, insider malfeasance or simply causing a configuration error.
The cyber crime group that locked up an Indonesian national data center last month, impacting hundreds of government services, has opted to provide the ransomware decryptor for free. This was accompanied by an apology, but also a donation link exhorting the Indonesian government and public to show gratitude for their supposed generosity.
A WeChat zero-click attack method could enable a malicious actor to take over the victim’s account or even compromise the device without user interaction.
For security teams and, by extension, the business, time directly relates to money. Having a threat hunting team or, at the very least, a dedicated threat hunter in your IT operation is the best way to balance risk vs. cost.
APIs power the digital experiences of consumers today. However, as API use increases, so do security risks because APIs are easy to deploy but hard to control.
A joint advisory by U.S. federal agencies warns of Iranian-affiliated cyber attacks on critical infrastructure, including energy, water, and government sectors.
Two zero-day vulnerabilities in Ivanti products that were disclosed in January (and patched weeks later) have turned out to be the source of a breach of MITRE, the US government-funded cybersecurity research center. China's nation-state hackers are suspected to be behind the attack given similarities in exploiting these same vulnerabilities in other incidents, but this is not confirmed as of yet.
DreamHost database leak exposed nearly 815 million records of customer data from the WordPress hosting platform. User account and configuration information was exposed.










