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(Source: Mike via Flickr) The SolarWinds supply chain attack should prompt federal agencies and others to rethink how they approach security issues - especially identity and access management, according to a breakdown of the attack presented this week by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. At NIST's Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board meeting, Jay Gazlay, a technical strategist with CISA who has been examining the attack since it was first disclosed in December 2020, presented an analysis of what the ag...

"Let’s move off this platform as soon as possible."  In the case of Accellion's FTA, reverse engineering enabled attackers to drop a web shell - a script that enables remote execution of commands - onto any server running the FTA software, according to FireEye's Mandiant incident response group, which Accellion hired to investigate. The web shell allowed attackers to bypass authentication, remotely execute code on the vulnerable systems and steal data. In at least some cases, stolen data ended up in the hands of the Clop ransomware gang, which has been offering to sell it or to remove it ...

On last Monday's episode of "The Good Doctor," Dr. Shaun Murphy (Freddie Highmore) interrupts his girlfriend Lea Dilallo (Paige Spara), the hospital's IT director, as she investigates a ransomware attack on the health care facility's network. (ABC/Jeff Weddell) On the ABC medical drama "The Good Doctor," the surgeons at San Jose St. Bonaventure Hospital constantly find themselves making life-or-death ethical and medical decisions. But last Monday night, when the facility was infected with a ransomware program, the hospital staffers were forced to make another critical choice: Pay or donâ€...

GovInfoSecurity Twitter Get Permission New Zealand's Reserve Bank is one victim of a breach involving Accellion's FTA product. (Source: Wikimedia Commons) Several data breaches stemming from unpatched vulnerabilities in Accellion's File Transfer Appliance have been revealed. What went wrong? Where does the fault lie? And what can organizations do about it? It’s not a straightforward story, and it points to problems around balancing use of an aging software product with risk, a reluctance to move onto a newer platform and internal patching hiccups. It’s prudent for those still using Acce...

Posted on 360 GuidePoint Security, a cybersecurity solutions leader enabling organizations to make smarter decisions and minimize risk, announced today that it was named by the Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC) as a 2020 Tech 100 Honoree, and that GuidePoint Security founder and managing partner, Michael Volk, was named among the 2020 NVTC Tech 100 Executives. The NVTC Tech 100 is a list of groundbreaking companies, leaders and innovators within the Greater Washington region. This is GuidePoint’s second honor in 2020 fr...