2024 IT Spending Surge: Surprising Insights from Piper Sandler's CIO Survey

Dec 11, 2023 6:56:14 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Industry analysts Piper Sandler do a yearly 'Industry Note' where they survey CIOs about their next year budget expectations. For 2024 there is a noticeable improvement regarding ...

Blocking Social Engineering by Foreign Bad Actors: The Role of the New Foreign Malign Influence Center

May 8, 2023 7:02:01 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The U.S. government created a new office to block disinformation. The new Foreign Malign Influence Center (FMIC) oversees efforts that span U.S. military, law enforcement, intelligence, ...

What is a Security Tech Stack?

Jun 7, 2022 8:27:31 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

What is a security tech stack? This is a bare-bones quick overview.

Microsoft Exchange Server Flaws Now Exploited for BEC Attacks

Nov 19, 2021 11:48:05 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Threat actors are using a couple of dangerous, new tactics to exploit the so-called ProxyShell set of vulnerabilities in on-premises Exchange Servers that Microsoft patched earlier this ...

WHAT IS XDR (EXTENDED DETECTION AND RESPONSE)?

Sep 24, 2021 2:45:23 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

ReliaQuest published a good article a little while back that quickly defines XDR and what it can do for you. This may save you some time and gets you up to speed on the latest security ...

[THIS IS UGLY] A Hacker Got All My Texts for $16

Mar 16, 2021 10:50:55 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

VICE just revealed a 2FA hole you can drive a truck through. A gaping flaw in SMS lets hackers take over phone numbers in minutes by simply paying a company to reroute text messages. This ...

[Heads Up] Has Your Exchange Been Hacked And Is Now A Ticking Time Bomb?

Mar 10, 2021 9:37:31 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Brian Krebs wrote: "Globally, hundreds of thousand of organizations running Exchange email servers from Microsoft just got mass-hacked, including at least 30,000 victims in the United ...

Dutch Intelligence Agencies Warn About Chinese and Russian Cyber Espionage

Feb 12, 2021 1:39:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Chinese and Russian state hackers threaten the Dutch economy. Three Dutch intelligence agencies jointly sound the alarm about digital espionage in financial newspaper Het Financieele ...

[Heads-Up] A Hacker Is Selling Access To The Email Accounts Of Hundreds Of C-Level Executives

Nov 27, 2020 11:52:05 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

ZDNet's Zero Day column just reported one of the best reasons why you should step your users through new-school security awareness training yet:

[On-Demand Webinar] Top 5 IT Security Myths Your CISO Believes Are True… BUSTED!

Nov 4, 2020 8:00:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Facts are facts, but what happens when IT security pros take myths at face value?

[CRITICAL] 250,000 Microsoft Exchange Servers are Unpatched and Vulnerable to Remote Code Execution Attacks!

Sep 30, 2020 3:37:08 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

With an estimated 61% of Exchange servers in the wild still operating unpatched, this security flaw allows attackers to take over a vulnerable server using any set of valid email ...

[Heads Up] The First-Ever Russian BEC Gang, Cosmic Lynx, Was Uncovered. They Spear Phish Multinational & Fortune 500 Senior Executives

Jul 7, 2020 10:13:48 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

“This is a historic shift to the global email threat landscape and portends new and sophisticated social engineering attacks that CISOs around the world must brace for now,” according to ...

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2024 IT Spending Surge: Surprising Insights from Piper Sandler's CIO Survey

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WHAT IS XDR (EXTENDED DETECTION AND RESPONSE)?

[THIS IS UGLY] A Hacker Got All My Texts for $16

[Heads Up] Has Your Exchange Been Hacked And Is Now A Ticking Time Bomb?

Dutch Intelligence Agencies Warn About Chinese and Russian Cyber Espionage

[Heads-Up] A Hacker Is Selling Access To The Email Accounts Of Hundreds Of C-Level Executives

[On-Demand Webinar] Top 5 IT Security Myths Your CISO Believes Are True… BUSTED!

[CRITICAL] 250,000 Microsoft Exchange Servers are Unpatched and Vulnerable to Remote Code Execution Attacks!

[Heads Up] The First-Ever Russian BEC Gang, Cosmic Lynx, Was Uncovered. They Spear Phish Multinational & Fortune 500 Senior Executives

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