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Urgent Vulnerability Notice: HermeticWizard, HermeticRansom, and IsaacWiper Target Ukraine

Michelle Drolet

What You Need to Know: This week, ESET researchers discovered three new cyberattacks against Ukraine: HermeticWizard, HermeticRansom, and IsaacWiper. There is a new exploit, HermeticWizard, which spreads HermeticWiper across local networks via WMI and SMB. HermeticWizard is a worm that was deployed on a Ukrainian system on February 23, 2022. The malware starts by trying

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Budgets Point To Where Security Priorities Are Heading In 2022

Michelle Drolet

Businesses are gearing up for another bumpy year of cybercrime. An ongoing barrage of phishing and ransomware attacks, third-party breaches like those involving Log4j and SolarWinds and the surge in remote work are but a few of the many reasons why almost 80% of security leaders still lack confidence in their cybersecurity posture. In response, a majority of them are planning to significantly

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Log4j: Five guidelines for detection and prevention

Michelle Drolet

FTC warns businesses that failure to address critical vulnerability could result in legal action. On Dec. 9, the Apache Software Foundation issued a Log4j security alert that a vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228), aka Log4Shell, allows unauthenticated users to remotely execute or update software code on multiple applications via web requests. On a scale of severity, the NIST has graded

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Towerwall Supports Women and Minority Students with Donation to Lauro Garner Cybersecurity Scholarship

Michelle Drolet

This holiday season, we are proud to announce we have made a donation to a new scholarship fund aimed at supporting young women and minority students to pursue rewarding careers in cybersecurity. Long-time colleague and client, United States Air Force Veteran, Saeed Garner, Director of Information Security for Christian Care Ministry, founded the newly established

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Urgent Vulnerability Notice: Log4Shell

Michelle Drolet

What You Need to Know: Security teams are in a hurry to patch an unknown active vulnerability that was found in Apache’s Log4j and is now named Log4Shell. Log4j is a Java-based open-source library used by apps and services, and the newly found vulnerability could allow an attacker to compromise millions of devices across the

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Pentesting vs. threat hunting: What’s the difference?

Michelle Drolet

Traditional cybersecurity practices relied on the age-old maxim, an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure. But here’s the biggest truth about modern cybersecurity: There’s no such thing as foolproof security, and bug-free software is an oxymoron. From the ’90’s script kiddies to present-day state-sponsored actors and cybercrime syndicates, attacks have grown

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6 Steps for Third-Party Cyber Risk Management

Michelle Drolet

If you have third-party partners, you need a third-party cyber risk management program. Here are six key steps to follow. Many organizations transact with hundreds of third-party partners, according to EY’s Global Third-Party Risk Management Survey 2019-2020, a trend that PwC finds shows no sign of slowing, even as the risks increase. A recent survey by security vendor Anchore found that in

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Towerwall Cybersecurity Services Now Available on AWS Marketplace

Michelle Drolet

BOSTON – August 31, 2021 – Towerwall, a 25-year provider of cybersecurity services for emerging to mid-size enterprises, today announced it has teamed up with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to list its array of data and IT security services and onsite deployment of Virtual Security Officers on the AWS Marketplace. Towerwall is one of the

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Key Initiatives CISOs Should Prioritize Post-Pandemic

Michelle Drolet

According to Ponemon, 67% of respondents to a CISO survey believe hackers and cybercriminals are more likely to target their companies. In this regard, the role CISOs play in modern organizations has grown more critical, as they’re tasked with managing enterprise risk, securing Internet of Things (IoT) devices and deploying security analytics. To maximize the security of

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6 Steps To Take Before Buying Cybersecurity Insurance

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Michelle Drolet

The landscape of cybersecurity insurance is shifting in the wake of a wave of high-profile ransomware attacks. Over the last five years, the U.S. has suffered more than 4,000 ransomware attacks a day, according to a U.S. government interagency report. It’s a pandemic unto itself: Ransomware attacks happen once every eight minutes. This trend has driven greater

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Budgets Point To Where Security Priorities Are Heading In 2022

Log4j: Five guidelines for detection and prevention

Towerwall Supports Women and Minority Students with Donation to Lauro Garner Cybersecurity Scholarship

Pentesting vs. threat hunting: What’s the difference?

6 Steps for Third-Party Cyber Risk Management

Key Initiatives CISOs Should Prioritize Post-Pandemic

6 Steps To Take Before Buying Cybersecurity Insurance

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