A common mistake made in responding to ransomware is rushing through a recovery only to realize that the recovery point was a compromised copy of the system, and in turn, re-introduces the threat back into the environment. To make matters worse, if a replicated copy were to be recovered at a tertiary site, it might introduce malware into networks that it previously didn’t have access to and further impact business operations.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has heightened government and business awareness around the reality that nation-state cyber threats pose. To cover all the implications of the threat posed by nation-state actors and the groups they sponsor, we sat down with Gary De Mercurio, VP, Global Practice Lead, Trustwave SpiderLabs.

It’s your turn, Android folks! The newest generation of 1Password is now available in Early Access – so put on your explorer hats, help us track down those bugs, and let the feedback flow.🕵️‍♀️

Most enterprises are well on their way towards a cloud operating model. Many have moved significant parts of their applications to one (or more) public clouds. Yet, many resources will never be destined for a central public cloud — and for good reason. We now see two factors that affect where and how many resources will ultimately be deployed (hint: it’s at the edge).

On Thursday, May 12, 2022, Zyxel released a patch advisory for an unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in their line of Firewall products tracked as CVE-2022-30525. The exploitation of this vulnerability can allow a threat actor to modify specific files and execute code remotely on a vulnerable appliance. Proof of Concept (PoC) exploit code for this vulnerability has been made publicly available via multiple sources.

We are thrilled to announce that Arctic Wolf has made the 2022 CNBC Disruptor 50 list, the company’s tenth annual ranking of the most game-changing private companies using technology to advance their industry. This list identifies fast-growing, innovative start-ups and Arctic Wolf is recognized for its revolutionary role in bringing security operations to organizations of all sizes, leading the few cybersecurity companies included on this year’s list.

Another day, another data breach has become a common refrain, in a world saturated with data breaches and other types of data exposures. But over the past few years, a subtle change in the nature of breaches has taken place. We documented some of this change in our analysis of the 100 largest breaches in the 21st century, highlighting that breaches were getting larger and more likely the result of misconfigurations.

Do you know where your users are going on the Internet? Do you know what they’re doing on the public Internet? How are you protecting your enterprise and your users from their cloud activities? These simple questions belie complex problems that can keep security and compliance practitioners up at night. One of the related challenges that organizations face today is controlling access to corporate and private file sharing applications such as Google Drive, OneDrive, and Dropbox.

Software testing is notoriously hard. Search Google for CVEs caused by basic CRLF (newline character) issues and you’ll see thousands of entries. Humanity has been able to put a man on the moon, but it hasn’t yet found a proper way to handle line endings in text files. It’s those subtle corner cases that have a strong tendency of being overlooked by programmers.

Kubernetes is a tool used by many developers and DevOps administrators to deploy and manage containerized applications, and it has become a default tool for container orchestration in many organizations.