Why Human Error is #1 Cyber Security Threat to Businesses in 2021

Phishing and Malware Among the major cyber threats, the malware remains a significant danger. The 2017 WannaCry outbreak that cost businesses worldwide up to $4 billion is still in recent memory, and other new strains of malware are discovered on a daily basis. Phishing has also seen a resurgence...

Dutch Insider Attack on COVID-19 Data

Insider data theft: Dutch police have arrested two individuals on Friday for allegedly selling data from the Dutch health ministrys COVID-19 systems on the criminal underground. … According to Verlaan, the two suspects worked in DDG call centers, where they had access to official Dutch government...

Cybercriminals want your cloud services accounts, CISA warns

On January 13 the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA issued a warning about several recent successful cyberattacks on various organizations’ cloud services. What methods did the attackers use? In the initial phase, the victims were targeted by phishing emails trying to capture...

2021 Cybersecurity Trends: Bigger Budgets, Endpoint Emphasis and Cloud

After shrinking in 2020, cybersecurity budgets in 2021 climb higher than pre-pandemic limits. Authentication, cloud data protection and application monitoring will top the list of CISO budget and cybersecurity priorities. According to experts, these are just a few of the themes to dominate the ye...

Most-Wanted Threatpost Stories of 2020

As 2020 draws to a close, it’s clear that work-from-home security, ransomware, COVID-19-themed social engineering and attacks by nation-states will go down as defining topics for the cybersecurity world for the year. Threatpost also took a retrospective view on what readers were most interested...

How to Defend Against Malware, Phishing, and Scams During COVID-19 Crisis

As if the exponential rise in phishing scams and malware attacks in the last five years wasn't enough, the COVID-19 crisis has worsened it further. The current scenario has given a viable opportunity to cybercriminals to find a way to target individuals, small and large enterprises, government...

Cyber Monday is Every Monday: Securing the 'New Normal'

Derek Manky Though eCommerce threats are usually only top-of-mind during the holiday shopping season, researchers have been on high alert when it comes to cybercriminal activity in the retail space during all of 2020, due to troves of new shoppers and stores going online. That’s according to Dere...

The story of the year: remote work

The coronavirus pandemic has caused sudden, sweeping change around the world. The necessary social distancing measures are having an impact on all of us. One large part of society that has been affected by these measures more than others is the employed. While direct customer facing businesses li...

D-Link Routers at Risk for Remote Takeover from Zero-Day Flaw

Buggy firmware opens a number of D-Link VPN router models to zero-day attacks. The flaws, which lack a complete vendor fix, allow adversaries to launch root command injection attacks that can be executed remotely and allow for device takeover. Impacted are D-Link router models DSR-150, DSR-250,...

Empowering employees to securely work from anywhere with an internet-first model and Zero Trust

Like many this year, our Microsoft workforce had to quickly transition to a work from the home model in response to COVID-19. While nobody could have predicted the world’s current state, it has provided a very real-world test of the investments we have made implementing a Zero Trust security mode...

5G, Security, IoT, Asavie and Akamai

Malicious actors never seem to rest and have always worked remotely. That simple realization hit home during recent global events. Specifically, Akamai saw an increase in malware traffic of over 400% between March 9, 2020 and May 11, 2020 from corporate devices, most of which were being used...

Brute force attacks increase due to more open RDP ports

While leaving your back door open while you are working from home may be something you do without giving it a second thought, having unnecessary ports open on your computer is a security risk that is sometimes underestimated. Thats because an open port can be subject to brute force attacks. What...

Heartland Dental’s Ambitions Land Them in the Cloud

Managing security for the largest Dental Support Organization DSO in the United States is no easy task. And sometimes, you need a security services partner to lend a helping hand. We sat down with Heartland Dental to talk about all things security, why they chose Rapid7, how quickly they’re...

Remote Workers Pose New Security Risks

The sudden and massive shift to a work-from-home workforce has left millions of employees ill-prepared to handle the new cybersecurity challenges they face, a new study has found. Though many people had no previous work-at-home experience until this year, they were sent home to navigate the...

News Wrap: Malicious Chrome Extensions Removed, CIA 'Woefully Lax' Security Policies Bashed

For the week ended June 19, Threatpost editors Lindsey O’Donnell Welch, Tom Spring and Tara Seals break down the top cybersecurity stories. This week’s top news stories include: Google removing 106 Chrome browser extensions from its Chrome Web Store in response to a report that they were being us...

Adobe Patches 18 Critical Flaws in Out-Of-Band Update

Adobe patched 18 critical vulnerabilities Tuesday impacting key products Adobe After Effects, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, Premiere Rush and Audition. The out-of-band fixes address vulnerabilities allowing an attacker to execute arbitrary code, if bugs are exploited. In its security bulletin Adobe...

Lock and Code S1Ep8: Securely working from home (WFH) with John Donovan and Adam Kujawa

This week on Lock and Code, we discuss the top security headlines generated right here on Labs and around the Internet. In addition, we talk to John Donovan, head of security at Malwarebytes, and Adam Kujawa, director of Malwarebtyes Labs, about securely working from home WFH. With shelter-in-pla...

21 Tips to Stay Secure, Private, and Productive as You Work from Home on Your Mac

Nowadays, Macs are part of the work-from-home workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic. If you’ve brought a Mac from the office to home, it’s likely your IT department has already set it up to meet your company’s security policies. But what if you’re enlisting a Mac already at home to do duty for...

Busting the Myths of Remote Workforce Security

This is part of our ongoing conversation about the worldwide challenges of working remotely. To stay up-to-date on the latest insights, refer to our live page for COVID-19: Cybersecurity Community Resources. I’ve attended a bunch of executive CISO roundtables over the past few weeks all focused o...

Beers with Talos Ep. #80: Working securely in a new (not yet) normal

Beers with Talos BWT Podcast episode No. 80 is now available. Download this episode and subscribe to Beers with Talos: If iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing, click here. Recorded April 24, 2020 Matt isn’t with us today, but the rest of the crew discusses some current security issues in our...