Human Factors in Cybersecurity in Icelandic Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

Cybersecurity threats are increasing in all aspects of society due to the integration of digital systems into modern-day life and a volatile geo-political landscape. Technical factors are an ongoing arms race; however, the threat surface from human and social factors is still present, often...

A Cyber Insurance Backstop

In the first week of January, the pharmaceutical giant Merck quietly settled its years-long lawsuit over whether or not its property and casualty insurers would cover a $700 million claim filed after the devastating NotPetya cyberattack in 2017. The malware ultimately infected more than 40,000 of...

FormBook spam campaign targets citizens of Ukraine️

Our Threat Intelligence team has been closely monitoring cyber threats related to the war in Ukraine. Today, we discovered a malicious spam campaign dropping the Formbook stealer specifically targeting Ukrainians. Formbook is part of a long-running malspam operation that we observe on a regular...

The federal Zero Trust strategy and Microsoft’s deployment guidance for all

You’d be forgiven for missing the White House announcement on federal Zero Trust strategy on January 26, 2022.1 After all, on that day alone a Supreme Court Justice announced his intention to retire, the Federal Reserve announced its plan to raise interest rates, and the State Department was busy...

Russia Today (RT) Hacked, "Russian" replaced with "Nazi" in News Headlines

'Russia Today', Moscow based Russia's biggest news channel website RT.com has been hacked and defaced by an unknown group of hackers. Hackers have replaced “Russia” or “Russians” with “Nazi” or “Nazis” word from the headlines, as shown. "RT website has been hacked, we are working to resolve the...

Financial Industry Needs Government Supoport with Security, Not Regulation

Regulation is not the answer. That’s what the CISO of Regions Bank, Michele B. Cantley repeatedly responded with when asked what the government can do to improve the financial sector’s current security climate in a hearing hosted by the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets and...

Sony Reply to Congress : We Still Don't Know Who Hacked Us !

Sony Reply to Congress : We Still Don't Know Who Hacked Us ! Updates from the latest answers submitted by PlayStation executive Kaz Hirai, responding to the House Energy and Commerce Committee's subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade. Hirai and this subcommittee last discussed PSN...