Data is the lifeblood of any organization, and thanks to digital transformation, data can be shared easily among many users within and across organizations. Organizations store as well as transmit large amounts of sensitive data and information. As more and more data exchange happens, risks and threats also increase. The average cost of a data breach was $ 3.86 million and surprisingly the average time to identify and contain a breach was a staggering 280 days.

The TMF Summit, a clinical documentation management conference hosted by industry observer Fierce Biotech, was held in late October in New Orleans. There was plenty of talk about familiar topics such as data quality and integrity, as well as data submission workflows and monitoring. But what stood out this year was how the pandemic continues to reshape the industry.

When it comes to construction technology, one size doesn’t necessarily fit all. Businesses often have different needs that require different tools to automate established processes, or standard operating procedures (SOPs). This creates a problem, however, because decision makers have to sift through the available technologies—and the depth and breadth of what processes they can cover—to find the right solution.

When organizations are attacked by ransomware, only a little more than half are able to recover their data using a backup. This begs the question, “What about the rest? Why might they be unable to recover?” One reason may be that their backup data has been compromised. Backups are a hot target for hackers. If they can get to an organization’s backup data, they have far more leverage.

We decided to try to run a well-known Remote Access Trojan (RAT) called Remcos used by FIN7. This tool has been around for some time and has a reputation for being stealthy and effective in controlling compromised hosts. Sold as a remote computer monitoring tool, this tool has plenty of features that can allow an operator behind the control to do multiple operations against a compromised system.

Global cyberattacks increased by 29 percent in the first half of 2021 compared to 2020, and we can assume that cybercriminals and hackers won’t stop their malware and ransomware attacks any time soon. A strong cybersecurity strategy is vital to reduce losses from those attacks, and a robust incident response plan should be a part of that strategy.

All organizations rely on vendors to function in today’s dynamic landscape while achieving peak operational efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and economies of scale. A growing third-party network can yield significant benefits for organizations — but it also results in greater risk.

According to a Pew survey in 2019, 70 percent of American adults believed at the time that their data was less secure than it had been five years prior. Now consider that a pandemic followed, along with major data breaches at the likes of Microsoft and others. One can safely assume Americans are even less confident about the security of their data today.

JFrog security research team (formerly Vdoo) has recently disclosed a code injection issue in one of the utilities shipped with Tensorflow, a popular Machine Learning platform that’s widely used in the industry. The issue has been assigned to CVE-2021-41228. This disclosure is hot on the heels of our previous, similar disclosure in Yamale which you can read about in our previous blog post.