Security Tools
Microsoft Patch Tuesday, March 2023 Edition
Microsoft on Tuesday released updates to quash at least 74 security bugs in its Windows operating systems and software. Two of those flaws are already being actively attacked, including an especially severe ...
Weak Creds, Unpatched Flaws, Reliance on Tools Plagued Orgs in 2022
Organizations often either have weak credential policies or don’t enforce them, making it easy for attackers to use legitimate credentials to log in—or live off the land—rather than using topflight tools to ...
Microsoft Patch Tuesday, February 2023 Edition
Microsoft is sending the world a whole bunch of love today, in the form of patches to plug dozens of security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software. This year's ...
Microsoft Patch Tuesday, January 2023 Edition
Microsoft today released updates to fix nearly 100 security flaws in its Windows operating systems and other software. Highlights from the first Patch Tuesday of 2023 include a zero-day vulnerability in Windows, ...
Microsoft Patch Tuesday, December 2022 Edition
Microsoft has released its final monthly batch of security updates for 2022, fixing more than four dozen security holes in its various Windows operating systems and related software. The most pressing patches ...
How to Adapt to Tightening Security Budgets
Cybersecurity is not immune to inflation. As Orion Hindawi, CEO and co-founder of Tanium told the audience at Converge 2022, security teams are being told by their CFOs that they must justify ...
Researchers Quietly Cracked Zeppelin Ransomware Keys
Peter is an IT manager for a technology manufacturer that got hit with a Russian ransomware strain called “Zeppelin” in May 2020. He’d been on the job less than six months, and ...
LinkedIn Adds Verified Emails, Profile Creation Dates
For whatever reason, the majority of the phony LinkedIn profiles reviewed by this author have involved young women with profile photos that appear to be generated by artificial intelligence (AI) tools. We’re ...
The State of Cybersecurity has improved but is hardly flawless
For the record, it should be acknowledged from the start that there is no question that the cybersecurity landscape has improved over time, mostly courtesy of persistent increases in cyber spending year after ...
As Cyberattacks Intensify, Orgs Don’t Report Incidents
It comes as no surprise that most IT security leaders believe that cyberattacks will intensify in the next year. What is surprising (and troubling) is that many keep attacks to themselves while ...
