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FoggyWeb: SolarWinds Hackers Access Microsoft AD Servers

Background The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) has released information on the uncovering of a widespread malicious email campaign undertaken by the activity group that Microsoft tracks as NOBELIUM. Nobelium, which operates from Russia, is the name given to the threat actor behind...

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Cyber Security Breaches in Cloud Computing

Cloud computing has been adopted by almost every organization due to its various benefits and work flexibility. However, with this adoption of the cloud, certain cybersecurity issues have been observed in cloud computing. Approximately 94% of organizations are moderate to...

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Microsoft Exchange Servers Still At Risk To Actively Exploited Vulnerabilities!

According to Cybernetic Global Intelligence (CGI) cybersecurity auditors, majority of Microsoft Exchange Servers still need to be updated with a fix for a critical memory corruption vulnerability reported earlier this year. These unpatched servers are extremely vulnerable to attack. Over...

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Microsoft Data Breach:  Exactly How Bad Was It?

Although data breaches weren’t new for modern internet-dwellers, we rarely witnessed them in the case of larger companies. But, when entities like Yahoo announced breaches that affected billions of their user accounts in the past year, it became quite clear...

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“More Data Breaches”: New Warning To Aussie Banks

Bank robbers don’t need balaclavas and shotguns anymore; they just need computers and stable networks! This is what the revelations of 36 significant data breach notifications from the boards of financial services firms in just four months give substance to....

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Worst Ever Healthcare Data Breaches Of 2019: Part 2

In Part 1 of this article, we have seen healthcare data breaches expanding in both frequency and size, with the biggest one impacting as many as 20 million people.  The motives behind all those cyberattacks are quite transparent: hospitals, health...

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Healthcare Experiences The Highest Cost At $6.5M On Data Breaches

Healthcare data breaches happen now with an ever hefty price tag — an average mitigation cost of $6.45 million! According to a recent study on the data breach costs, organizations in the Healthcare domain were found to experience the costliest...

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