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As one of the largest global defense companies, L3Harris provides mission-critical solutions to connect and protect the world, serving customers in more than 130 countries. Given the nature of the company’s industry, L3Harris faces numerous facets of cybersecurity threats from advanced adversaries and nation states. The company’s 24x7 computer security incident response team (CSIRT) analysts operate in a highly advanced security atmosphere that is continually growing more complex. Devin McLean, SOC Manager and IRT Engineer...

According to a report released today by Gurucul, a leader in unified security and risk analytics technology for on-premises and the cloud, 65 per cent of nearly 300 international cybersecurity professionals surveyed at RSA Conference 2020 admit to having accessed company documents that have nothing to do with their job role.   The survey was conducted to gauge how common insider threat behaviour is among IT security professional who are most attuned to the cyber threats facing organisations. Insider...

  The use of remote access technologies like RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) and VPN (Virtual Private Network) has skyrocketed 41% and 33%, respectively, since the onset of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. The move comes as a large number of companies have asked staff to work from home, which usually entails connecting to internal intranets via remote access technologies like the two named above. Source: ZD Net

If a layman pictures a cyberattack, the likelihood is they picture a ransomware attack: The screens overcome by a malicious message, locking up systems and demanding payment to a shadowy organisation or individual. This cultural ubiquity does not exist in a vacuum: Where other forms of cybercrime have gone in and out of fashion based on new attack techniques or changing defensive landscapes. Below, some of the most respected security professionals working today wax lyrical...

By Rita Selvaggi, CEO of ActivTrak The global reach of the coronavirus has elevated the discussion around the need for “social distancing” and working remotely to avoid spreading the infectious virus. Global companies like IBM, Goldman Sachs, and PwC are asking employees to work from home, as are smaller organisations, such as Seattle-based online payment company Stripe. As organisations consider having employees work from home on a more massive scale, it’s important to recognise that...

Threat actors are distributing the Dharma Ransomware in a new spam campaign targeting Windows users in Italy.  The Dharma Ransomware has been active for many years and is based on another ransomware family called Crysis. It is not common, though, to see this ransomware family distributed through malspam as it is more commonly installed via hacked remote desktop services. Source: Bleeping Computer

Recent reports have shown the hacking group behind Maze ransomware has been steadily posting the data of its victims online after the organizations fail to pay the ransom demand. A compiled list of victims shows the data of several healthcare organizations are included in those postings, despite a lack of public reporting of those incidents. Source: Health IT Security

Bulletproof has released its Annual Cybersecurity Industry Report that shows that half of the most pervasive of critical flaws - which offer hackers an easy route into an organisation – are down to outdated components, such as unpatched or unsupported software. However, this number has jumped significantly from 22%  over the previous year, indicating a widespread negligence when it comes to organisations’ cybersecurity practices. One of the most shocking findings was that cyber criminals continue to...

A word that has become synonymous with suspicious, illegal or unscrupulous online activity, it is hard to avoid bots being mentioned in one capacity or another in 2020. Now accounting for 50% of online traffic, bots and the legality of bots remains a misunderstood subject. Defined in layman’s terms as an automated tool that mimics human behaviour in order to generate a large amount of traffic, bots can be used for almost anything online, most...

Quentyn Taylor, Director of Information Security at Canon Europe Ltd. has shared his Rant of the Week with the Guru! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Cw7hZhhbTw&feature=youtu.be