JD Sports Sportswear Retailer have suffered a cyber attack that exposed the data of 10 million customers accessed by backers in the attack. The personal data which was exposed includes customer’s names, email addresses, contact details and passwords.
Cyber risks are prevalent in all healthcare institutions, and understanding how to mitigate those risks is especially important in today’s cyber landscape. Cyber risk is the sum of all IT risks that can potentially lead to the loss or exposure of critical data, financial damages, reputational damages, and operational stoppages due to a data breach or data leak. Measuring cyber risks involves determining the likelihood and impact of each cyber threat.
Because cyber threats continue to grow in sophistication and effectiveness, cyber incident reporting is not only important but also necessary for other organizations to learn from and prevent making the same mistakes. Many governing bodies and federal governments around the world have begun to require cyber incident reporting to document the type of attacks used, the source of the attacks, and how the attacks occurred to better understand the threat landscape.
Search engines automatically create a business listing based on publicly available information, but they permit business owners to override this automatic listing by publishing their own. This listing may include business hours, slogan, geographical location, a website link, contact information, reviews, and images. Business owners are also permitted to respond to reviews. Recently, Sedara has seen incidents in which the attacker claims control over a business listing that they do not own.
The key to maintaining a successful cyber defense is being proactive and not simply hoping your security technology stack manages to keep threat actors at bay. An organization needs not only a properly constructed and manned security structure, but one that is operated in conjunction with a partnerthat has a deep historical understanding of how threat operators work, matched with an elite team of researchers and analysts who can proactively find threats before they cause harm.
The underground economy of the initial access brokers (IABs) is more flourishing than ever. At least this is one of the conclusions of the recent report “Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2022/2023” released by Group-IB. Initial access brokers exploit vulnerabilities or misconfigurations to get hold of valid access credentials (typically VPN or RDP) and outsource or sell them to criminal gangs, including ransomware operators.
On October 3, 2022 the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued Binding Operational Directive 23-01 – Improving Asset Visibility and Vulnerability Detection on Federal Networks, a compulsory order intended to “make measurable progress toward enhancing visibility into agency assets and associated vulnerabilities.” BOD 23-01 mandates that Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FEEB) agencies complete a series of required actions within six months, or by April 3, 2023.
Effectively managing the many open source licenses used in enterprise software is a complex task that requires a thorough evaluation of key features in software license management tools. After that, you need to implement the technology using several best practices. In this blog post, let’s take a brief look at both.
