Jimmy Hatzell

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Jimmy Hatzell is an IT expert-turned-channel marketing professional with hands on experience in IT and cybersecurity. As Director of Marketing for Barracuda SKOUT Managed XDR, Jimmy uses his technical and marketing knowledge to build content and tools to help MSPs deliver cybersecurity-as-a-service. Prior to his time at SKOUT, Jimmy served as the CTO for a healthcare start-up and holds degrees in both Information Sciences and Cybersecurity from Penn State University.

Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Second Log4j vulnerability patch released

Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Second Log4j vulnerability patch released

As we know, a significant Log4j Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability has had a patch released and tracked as CVE-2021-44228. However, the patch was not entirely effective at mitigating the risk due to CVE-2021-45046, the lack of completion in some...

/ December 17, 2021
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Critical Java Zero-Day Vulnerability

Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Critical Java Zero-Day Vulnerability

A critical remote code vulnerability has emerged in Log4j, a Java Logging package that is used in a number of software products and platforms from organizations like Apache, Apple, Twitter, Tesla and Steam. This vulnerability impacts almost every Java application...

/ December 10, 2021
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Cyber Threats Targeting Consumers During Holiday Season

Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Cyber Threats Targeting Consumers During Holiday Season

The holiday season is once again upon us, and with it comes the busiest time of the year for shopping and traveling. Specifically, from late November to early January of the new year is a time where attackers will be...

/ December 6, 2021
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: BlackMatter Ransomware

Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: BlackMatter Ransomware

The FBI, CISA, and NSA have released a joint advisory about the BlackMatter Ransomware gang. This group has been gaining traction with their attacks since July 2021 and claims to be the successor of the Darkside and REvil ransomware groups....

/ November 9, 2021
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: The recent Facebook outage

Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: The recent Facebook outage

On October 4, 2021, the global social network Facebook and its associated platforms faced a global outage that lasted approximately six hours. This outage not only impacted all Facebook users, but it also blocked internal communication between its employees and...

/ October 11, 2021 / 1 Comment
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Office 365 Zero-Day Attacks

Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Office 365 Zero-Day Attacks

Microsoft has released a mitigation for a vulnerability which exists on Windows 10 and can be exploited to launch zero-day attacks against Office 365 and Office 2019. Identified as CVE-2021-40444, this vulnerability could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code on...

/ September 27, 2021
Cybersecurity threat advisory: Lockbit ransomware on the rise

Cybersecurity threat advisory: Lockbit ransomware on the rise

Global consulting firm Accenture was recently hit by a ransomware attack that was allegedly carried by the ransomware group, LockBit. In response, SKOUT Managed XDR (now a Barracuda offering) has updated their threat intelligence to include key indicators of compromised...

/ September 7, 2021 / 2 Comments