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Kaseya VSA Breach
8Jul-21

Kaseya VSA Breach Consequences of Security Failures

Kaseya VSA Breach Consequences of Security Failures The world has witnessed another large-scale cyber-attack. On July 2, 2021, Kaseya, an IT Systems Management software firm, disclosed a security incident impacting their on-premises version of Kaseya’s Virtual System Administrator (VSA) software. The result was up to 1500 companies being held hostage to a significant ransom demand. Incidents such as these are becoming more commonplace. We are [...]

Mercedes Benz AMG Data Breach
7Jul-21

Mercedes Benz AMG Data Breach 2021

 Mercedes Benz AMG Data Breach I regret to inform all of you that I just received an email from Mercedes Benz AMG stating my data which is hold by them has been hacked :( I am one of the 1000 AMG victims and again on of the 1.6 million victims which is hit in the Mercedes-Benz data breach , here [...]

Attack
23Dec-20

SunBurst APT against Solarwinds , mapped to Kill Chain 2020

SunBurst APT against Solarwinds , mapped to Kill Chain Following the attack on FireEye, the details are revealed and the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has issued an Emergency Directive (ED) regarding a backdoor being exploited in SolarWinds Orion products. Several victims have been identified that has been infected using the same attack. Fireeye initiated first analysis upon the [...]

CIO Tech Asia Erdal Ozkaya
11Aug-20

CIO Tech Asia : Living The Life In Tech Free P0DCAST

CIO Tech Asia : Living The Life In Tech Free CIO Tech Asia has invited me to join them for a podcast where we discussed  some of the major cybersecurity threats currently facing businesses in 2020 and beyond, while providing deeper insights around the steps CISOs need to take to better prepare themselves for when an attack occurs. l also delve [...]

Hackers
4Jun-19

Hackers steal 19 years worth of data from the Australian National University

Hackers steal 19 years worth of data News from ESET We Live Security A premier Australian university has disclosed a cyberattack that compromised the personal information of its students and staff extending back nearly two decades. “We believe there was unauthorized access to significant amounts of personal staff, student and visitor data extending back 19 years,” reads a statement from Brian Schmidt, Vice-Chancellor [...]
1Jun-19

10 years of virtual dynamite: A high-level retrospective of ATM malware

10 years of virtual dynamite: A high-level retrospective of ATM malware POSTED BY VANJA SVAJCE via Talos Intelligence Executive summary It has been 10 years since the discovery of Skimer, first malware specifically designed to attack automated teller machines (ATMs). At the time, the learning curve for understanding its functionality was rather steep and analysis required specific knowledge of a manufacturer's ATM API [...]
24May-19

NEW Security baseline for Windows 2019

The NEW Security baseline for Windows While I was still a Full-Time Employee at Microsoft I was fully aware of this “new baseline” recommendations, but I was waiting for the final announcement which came yesterday from my good friend Aaron Margosis, Here is the new security configuration baseline settings for Windows 10 and Windows Server (version 1903) Please note that the new [...]

Recommended web sites for IT Security Pros
22May-19

14 Recommended web sites for IT Security Pros

14 Recommended web sites for IT Security Pros As a Trusted Security Advisor at Microsoft, I used to receive if not hundreds, tens of emails nearly every day from people across the globe asking my help on how they become a Security Professional.Of course, this is not a one-night thing, or there is no secret recipe or a short cut, [...]

Security Exploit
22May-19

New Windows 10 Security Exploit Can Read All Your Files – What You Need To Know

New Windows 10 Security Exploit A security researcher with a history of releasing zero-day exploits for the Windows operating system has struck again; this time just days after the latest Patch Tuesday security updates were rolled out. Which means that it’s unlikely there will be a fix for Windows 10 users until June 11 at the earliest. So what did [...]