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A compilation of more than 3.2 billion unique pairs of emails and passwords was recently leaked on a popular hacking forum according to a report last month from Cybernews.
In a statement published Jan. 22, SonicWall officials wrote they detected an attack "by highly sophisticated threat actors exploiting probably zero-day vulnerabilities on certain SonicWall secure remote access products." As of Jan. 23, the company has confirmed its SonicWall Firewalls, NetExtender VPN Client, Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 Series, and SonicWave Access Points were not affected in the recent attack. The SMA 100 Series, used to provide employees with remote access to internal resources, is under investigation but "may be used safely in common deployment use cases." Current ...
Threat actors have used a variety of tactics and techniques—including phishing, brute force login attempts, and possibly a so-called “pass-the-cookie” attack that bypassed multifactor authentication to exploit cloud security weaknesses.
Get Permission The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency warns that hackers are increasingly targeting a variety of cloud services by waging phishing schemes and brute-force attacks. CISA reports in an alert issued Wednesday that attacks targeting cloud services have steadily increased since many organizations switched to a largely remote workforce as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, with employees using a mix of corporate-owned and personal devices to access these services. Attackers are taking advantage of lax security practices, such as weak passwords and workers accessi...
Like it or not, companies must learn how to protect employee health data as business reopens during the pandemic. Here, U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman 2nd class DeMarcus Baldwin takes a sailor’s temperature during a routine COVID-19 medical screening aboard U.S. 7th Fleet flagship. (U.S. Navy/Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Apprentice Erik Rivera Jr.) For many businesses, recovery from the pandemic fallout hinges in part on employees working safely and virus-free outside their homes. That leaves organizations facing the very real possibility that they wil...