October is a busy month for awareness campaigns and Halloween! Perhaps you already knew that October is both Breast Cancer Awareness and Domestic Violence Awareness Month, but did you know it is also National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM)? NCSAM is a government-created campaign in the United States. It is an initiative of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA).

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In our last installment of this series, we were introduced to some dangerous characters one might encounter on darknets. This week, we will finish out that list, looking into both organized groups and individuals. Wrapping my head around why people do what they do, and how they execute operations that end up costing corporations millions, is always fascinating.

Florida’s First Judicial Circuit hosts 33 courts in the Northwest of the state. The region serves over 1.4 million residents, most of whom live within areas heavily impacted by the military. Last week, the Florida Courts suffered a data breach, which halted operations across the district starting on October 2nd. In the last 72 hours, ransomware gang BlackCat has claimed responsibility for the assault—and may be holding the credentials for ransom.

As organizations adopt Microsoft AKS at scale, they need to enforce namespace or even workload-based isolation for better security and compliance. This isolation, often referred to as microsegmentation, can help prevent the lateral movement of threats inside Kubernetes clusters, achieve compliance by limiting communication across workloads or namespaces, and enable multi-tenancy by limiting communication.

October is officially Cybersecurity Awareness Month in the United States but September was a good month for it, too.

Back in the 20th century, cyberattacks were harder to execute because most computers were not networked, the internet wasn’t really a thing, only a few groups of people had access to computers, and more importantly, there wasn’t any big incentive to attack.