If you run security for a hospital system, a bank, a college, or a manufacturer, a new government advisory deserves ten minutes this week.
On July 13, NSA, CISA, FBI, and DC3, joined by partners across the Five Eyes and Europe, released "Improve Router Hygiene to Protect Against Russian State-Sponsored Targeting" (AA26-194A). It documents a decade-plus campaign by Russia's FSB Center 16 against networking devices. The sectors it names as most at risk are financial services, healthcare and public health, energy, communications, the defense industrial base, and government, especially at the state and local levels.
Russia's FSB is scanning routers this week - Get faster than the bear.
Topics: Vulnerabilities, Penetration Testing, Monitoring & Detection, Security Advisory
I spoke with a reporter this morning who asked me a simple question: Why do kids turn to cybercrime? After some fun and genuinely insightful conversations with my colleagues at ProCircular, ages 20 to 55+, here’s what we were able to cobble together.
Topics: Security Advisory
When Every Minute Counts: A Guide to Incident Recovery
A cybersecurity incident doesn't pause while your team figures out what to do next. Every minute an attacker remains in your environment, they have more time to expand their foothold, exfiltrate data, or encrypt additional systems — and the business is losing money the entire time. But here's the critical nuance most organizations miss: the goal isn't to start recovering as fast as possible. It's to understand what you're dealing with and contain the incident first.
Topics: Data Breaches, Incident Response, Security Advisory, Financial Services & Insurance
A CEO’s Dilemma: Balancing Growth with Cyber Resilience
As a CEO, you’re the captain of a ship, navigating the high seas toward growth and innovation. But every time you set sail toward new horizons; you’re also charting a course through shark-infested digital waters. With every new mile marker, your attack surface increases, and so does your exposure to cyber threats.
Topics: Data Protection & Privacy, Monitoring & Detection, Security Advisory
The Constant Challenge: Keeping Your External Attack Surface in the Fast Lane
In the world of IT, we’re all drivers on a high-speed track. With cloud infrastructures, remote workforces, third-party integrations, and the wild card of Shadow IT, our attack surface expands like a growing racetrack full of sharp turns and unexpected obstacles.
Topics: Data Protection & Privacy, Monitoring & Detection, Security Advisory
