Defending the Intelligent Edge from Evolving Attacks
Fortinet’s Aamir Lakhani discusses best practices for securing company data against next-gen threats, like edge access trojans (EATs).
Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Targeted in EU Cyberattack
Threat actors accessed Pfizer vaccine documentation submitted to EU regulators in the latest cyberattack trying to profit off pandemic suffering.
MoleRats APT Returns with Espionage Play Using Facebook, Dropbox
The threat group is increasing its espionage activity in light of the current political climate and recent events in the Middle East, with two new backdoors.
PLEASE_READ_ME Ransomware Attacks 85K MySQL Servers
Ransomware actors behind the attack have breached at least 85,000 MySQL servers, and are currently selling at least compromised 250,000 databases.
Critical Cisco Jabber Bug Gets Updated Fix
A series of bugs, patched in September, still allow remote code execution by attackers.
Cyber Monday is Every Monday: Securing the ‘New Normal’
From eCommerce threats, to security concerns in connected speakers, Fortinet researchers discuss the top evolving threats of 2020, heading into the new year.
Misery of Ransomware Hits Hospitals the Hardest
Ransomware attacks targeting hospitals have exacted a human cost as well as financial.
Critical Steam Flaws Could Let Gamers to Crash Opponents’ Computers
Valve fixed critical bugs in its Steam gaming client, which is a platform for popular video games like Counter Strike: Global Offensive, Dota2 and Half Life.
Automatic Asynchronous Replication Connection Failover
MySQL 8.0.22 introduces Automatic Asynchronous Replication connection failover. This feature makes MySQL asynchronous replication fault-tolerant to source connection failure, by automating the process of re-establishment of a replication connection to another available source. If there are source servers in multiple data centers, the user can also configure the replica to fail over between them, to…
The story of the year: remote work
The coronavirus pandemic has caused sudden, sweeping change around the world. The necessary social distancing measures are having an impact on all of us. One large part of society that has been affected by these measures more than others is the employed. While direct customer facing businesses like restaurants and retailers have had to change…