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How To Secure Your Environment Against Ransomware

Ransomware has been the biggest cybersecurity problem of 2021, with yet another service provider hit this week. We've had our warning shots - now is the time to rethink our Defence in Depth strategy and learn from the mistakes of other organisations. We run through what you need to be considering and adding to your security strategies in order to protect yourself from what is becoming a very real and very possible threat.

Actionable Insights with SecurityScorecard Threat Intelligence Partners

Threat intelligence provides valuable insight into contextual business risk. You can gain insight into threat actors targeting your industry or information from your organization located on the Dark Web. According to one report, 79% of security professionals find threat data feeds essential to their organization’s cybersecurity posture. Additionally, 63% of respondents noted that they use feeds to ensure a better defense.

HiveNightmare / SeriousSAM (CVE-2021-36934)

First coming to light as a local elevation of privilege vulnerability affecting pre-release versions of Windows 11 (Figure 1), subsequent investigations into the issue, namely sensitive registry hive files being accessible to all users when 'System Protection' is enabled, confirm that it also affects Windows 10. Initially dubbed 'HiveNightmare' and 'SeriousSAM' by security researchers, CVE-2021-36934 has been assigned to this vulnerability although the CVSS score has yet to be determined.

More businesses lost larger sums of money to phone scams in past year

Fraudulent phone calls have been an issue for years, and they’re becoming more common. According to a recent report from Truecaller, 59.49 million Americans lost money to scam calls in the past year, costing $29.8 billion. These threats have risen in both number and cost, and businesses can’t afford to ignore this trend. Small and medium-sized businesses are popular targets for fraud, as they often have less security.

The Complete Guide to Prototype Pollution Vulnerabilities

Prototype Pollution is one of the less known vulnerabilities in the security community. Researchers started to discuss it as a potential attack vector around 2017, and the first vulnerabilities were found in the wild at the start of 2018. In this article, we’re going to take a deep dive into what Prototype Pollution vulnerabilities are, and how they can be mitigated.

Preventing Data Exfiltration with eBPF

To keep your business secure, it is important not only to keep the hackers from getting in but also to keep your data from getting out. Even if a malicious actor gains access to the server, for example via an SSH session, it is vital to keep the data from being exfiltrated to an unauthorized location, such as IP addresses not under your organization’s control. In considering a solution to protect against data exfiltration, it is critical to note that one policy does not fit all.