Michelle Drolet
Michelle Drolet was recently named The Most Admired Women Leaders in Business, 2023 by CIO Views Many people equate money with success. Although, money is not a bad indicator, but it is not the end all be all. To me success is being blessed with a beautiful family, my Towerwall team members and our
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Michelle Drolet
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts may soon approve a data privacy bill called the Massachusetts Information Privacy and Security Act, which will make the state a national leader in regulation of data privacy and security. There are extensive fines and penalties for non-compliance, and the ruling will allow individuals to sue organizations for data breaches. Who
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Michelle Drolet
What You Need to Know: A vulnerability was found in the open source JsonWebToken (JWT) library. According to Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, CVE-2022-23529 it could allow an attacker to achieve remote code execution (RCE) on a server verifying a maliciously crafted JSON web token request. The vulnerability impacts JsonWebToken package version 8.5.1 and earlier.
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Michelle Drolet
It’s that time of year again when we try to predict what’s ahead of us in terms of cybersecurity. 2022 has already become a record-breaker for the sheer volume of phishing scams, cyberattacks, data breaches and crypto heists. There was also a rise in hacktivism cases where state-sponsored cyber legions disrupted critical infrastructure and services,
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Michelle Drolet
Ransomware attacks and ransomware attackers are both evolving, becoming much more complex and damaging with each passing year. Attackers are moving in and out of victims swiftly, encrypting systems or exfiltrating data well before security teams can detect their presence. What organizations need is an offensive approach in which cyber threats and adversaries are hunted down
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Michelle Drolet
What You Need to Know: There are two zero-day vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, 2016, and 2019. CVE-2022-41040 is a Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability and CVE-2022-41082 is a vulnerability that allows for remote code execution when PowerShell is accessible to a threat actor. Microsoft stated that the current attacks are limited but the
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Michelle Drolet
SMBs face the same threats as larger companies but are challenged with limited resources, budgets and security talent. Organizations that outsource with an experienced security partner can make up for shortfalls in expertise and resources. In 2021, 40% of SMBs experienced a security breach partly because they are low-hanging fruit and attractive targets for leapfrogging to a
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Michelle Drolet
What You Need to Know: Apple released security updates for vulnerabilities found in iOS, iPadOS, MacOS Big Sur, and macOS Monterey. CVE-2022-32894 and CVE-2022-32893 are zero-day flaws that have code execution vulnerabilities being exploited by attackers in the wild. There are few details surrounding the vulnerabilities or how they were used, but the flaws are
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Michelle Drolet
What You Need to Know: A large-scale phishing campaign was disclosed by ThreatLabz this week. The researchers observed the use of advanced phishing kits in a large campaign primarily targeting corporate enterprise users of Microsoft email servers. The threat actors behind the campaign have not been identified, but researchers observed the attackers using an adversary-in-the
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Michelle Drolet
What You Need to Know: A hardcoded credentials vulnerability was found in the Questions for Confluence app and is under active exploitation. The vulnerability allows remote, unauthenticated attackers that know the hardcoded password for specific accounts in the app, to gain access to non-restricted pages in Confluence. CVE-2022-26138 was observed to be under active exploitation
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