A free phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform named Sniper Dz has assisted in the creation of more than 140,000 phishing sites over the past year, according to researchers at Palo Alto Networks. The service allows unskilled criminals to spin up sophisticated phishing sites that steal credentials or deliver malware.

Supply chain detection and response (SCDR) is a solution for supply chain incident responders that drives critical issue identification, vendor responsiveness, and time to incident resolution. SCDR solutions provide risk intelligence, AI-driven workflows, and collaboration capabilities to improve the security posture of your organization and your suppliers.

Breaches, be they accidental, careless, or malicious, are an inevitability for most companies. Depending on the industry, the consequences could range from something as minor as a little public embarrassment to hefty fines, lawsuits, expensive remediation actions, and loss of customer confidence (and, with that - business). The question is, how can compliance use this to its advantage and get a share of the security budget before something happens?

On April 12, 2024, Palo Alto Networks published a security advisory detailing an actively exploited maximum severity zero-day vulnerability affecting the GlobalProtect feature of PAN-OS. Dubbed CVE-2024-3400, it was assigned the maximum critical severity score of 10.0 through the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS), meaning the potential for damage was large and the path to exploit was easy for cybercriminals.

It’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month and you know what that means. Pumpkin spice versions of Trustwave Managed Detection and Response (MDR) solutions are now available! Well, not really, but pumpkin spice season is the perfect time to raise awareness about the importance of cybersecurity and ensuring that individuals and organizations are equipped to protect themselves against cyber threats.

Efficiently managing cyber security exposures and vulnerabilities is critical to keeping an organization’s most valuable assets secure. With cyber threats growing in complexity and volume, security teams are constantly challenged to manage an increasing workload while keeping risks at bay. Streamlining the vulnerability management lifecycle has never been more important.

October marks Cybersecurity Awareness Month. This is a time to focus on the critical importance of cybersecurity and provide individuals and organizations with simple, effective tools to stay safe online and protect personal information. Increased awareness and taking appropriate actions are fundamental to a more secure digital work environment. The theme for this year, “Secure Our World,” emphasizes that cybersecurity is a shared responsibility.

In today's digital world, where everything is connected, software vulnerabilities are a constant threat to businesses of all kinds. Malicious people who want to steal private data, mess up operations, or cause financial harm can easily get into software that hasn't been updated and is full of security holes. If you don't update your software, terrible things can happen, like data breaches, ransomware attacks, system failures, and damage to your image.

Increasingly targeted ransomware attacks, has cyber professionals on high alert securing their networks and understandably with a single attack being potentially such a massive loss (both in terms of finance, operational disruption as well as brand damage). A company that relies on its data to operate or grow should make setting in place a defense against ransomware a top priority. But we cannot take any protection measure without knowing what ransomware is all about.

Managing files and directories is a common task in computing, especially in the Windows PowerShell environment. The Remove-Item in PowerShell is a key cmdlet for deleting files and directories, as well as other types of items in PowerShell. Remove-Item can be used for local file systems as well as other PowerShell providers like the Registry, Certificate Store, and Environment variables.