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Netskope have unveiled their Next Gen SASE Branch, a major step forward in infrastructure that uses Netskope’s award-winning Borderless SD-WAN to transform how organisations manage their most critical networking and security functions and optimise enterprise branches everywhere. In today's digital age, IT teams seek cloud-centric infrastructure solutions that elegantly converge network and security capabilities, reduce legacy technology maintenance, and support the performance demands of hybrid work environments. SASE has emerged as a leading framework already...

On November 8th, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) was impacted by a ransomware attack that disrupted a subset of their Financial Services (FS) systems. ICBC is China’s largest bank with the Financial Services unit based in New York City. ICBC FS has many operations but has a significant hand in the U.S. Treasury market.   As the Financial Times first reported, the ransomware attack against ICBC FS came in the form of LockBit...

Outpost24 has made significant updates to its offering with the release of Threat Explorer, an advanced vulnerability intelligence and custom alerting tool for continuous threat monitoring. The new module, available as a part of the Threat Compass threat intelligence solution, provides a timely source of vulnerability intelligence, enabling organizations to be alerted on the latest vulnerability exploits and prioritize remediation. Key features in Outpost24 Threat Explorer With Threat Explorer, organizations can see and manage where...

Electric Ireland, an Irish utility company, released an announcement confirming that 8,000 customer accounts containing personal and financial information may have been compromised.  Though the exact details of the breach are unknown, the statement explained that “Electric Ireland is aware that an employee of a company working on our behalf may have inappropriately accessed a small portion of our 1.1 million residential customer accounts.”  This, the statement said, has resulted in the potential misuse of...

Salt Security, the API security company, has been named the winner of the API Security category in the 2023 CISO Choice Awards. Judged by a panel of distinguished CISOs at large organisations across the world, the CISO Choice Awards honour security vendors who provide top-tier differentiated security solutions, valuable to CISOs and their enterprises. Salt, utilising powerful cloud-scale big data and time-tested artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms, protects APIs across their full lifecycle and delivers the...

In the UK on November 5, we celebrate ‘Guy Fawkes Night’ or ‘Bonfire Night’ often with fireworks and bonfires. Yet, had Guy Fawkes and his conspirators succeeded with the Gunpowder Plot in 1605 to kill King James I and his governmental officials, the country, its politics, religion and society, could have turned out very differently. Thankfully, the intelligence that was obtained by the authorities helped avoid what could have been a catastrophic event. Parallels could...

Boeing, the American multinational corporation most known for the manufacturing of aircrafts, rockets, satellites, and missiles, has confirmed a cyber breach on their systems. Last week, the infamous and prolific ransomware gang, LockBit, announced that “a tremendous amount of sensitive data was exfiltrated” from Boeing’s systems and was ready to be published if the company did not make contact within the deadline.  The announcement has since been removed from LockBit’s website, but a screenshot shared...

New research this week has given warning to employees to be on alert to emails seemingly from human resources (HR) as they could be fraudulent. In fact, the findings from KnowBe4's latest phishing report has highlighted that fraudulent HR emails remain a prevalent tactic employed by cybercriminals. Such deceptive emails may encompass subjects like alterations in dress code policies, updates on training sessions, changes in vacation policies, or a wide range of other topics. These deceptive...

Today, Keeper Security has announced a new open source project for software developers and DevOps to easily and securely sign git commits with their Keeper vault. Through Keeper Secrets Manager (KSM), users can now use Secure Shell (SSH) keys stored in their Keeper Vault to digitally sign commits to confirm the authenticity of their code. Git is a version control system that tracks changes in your software projects, and a git commit is a snapshot...

New research by Outpost24 has revealed that IT administrators could be just as predictable as end-users when it comes to passwords. An analysis of just over 1.8 million passwords ranked ‘admin’ as the most popular password (with over 40,000 entries), with additional findings pointing to a continued acceptance of default passwords. This research comes in light of new legislations brought in by governments in recent years that ban the use of default passwords. This measure...