Category: Featured
Tech Time Warp: Nimda worm slows traffic with multiple propagation methods
In this week’s Tech Time Warp, we look back to September 2001. While the world was reeling from the 9/11 terrorist attacks, hackers unleashed a new threat: a worm that could modify existing websites to trick users into downloading malware....
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Sophisticated phishing campaign identified
This Cybersecurity Threat Advisory focuses on a sophisticated phishing campaign that uses a Microsoft Word document lure to distribute a trio of threats. The threats are Agent Tesla, OriginBotnet, and RedLine Clipper, and are designed to gather a wide range...
Hybrid cloud automation creates MSP opportunity
IT teams are starting to conclude that cloud automation has become too much of a good thing. A global survey of 535 IT leaders conducted by Broadcom finds that more than 81 percent have multiple cloud automation solutions in place,...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: New Android zero-day exploit found
This Cybersecurity Threat Advisory involves a critical zero-day vulnerability affecting Android devices, tracked as CVE-2023-35674, posing a significant threat to Android users. This vulnerability allows malicious actors to execute arbitrary code remotely, potentially compromising sensitive user data and device functionality....
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Zero-day vulnerabilities found in Apple’s PassKit
Today’s Cybersecurity Threat Advisory involves Apple, who recently released critical updates for iPhone and Mac products after two zero-day vulnerabilities were discovered in their PassKit framework via iMessage. Both vulnerabilities allow malicious actors to perform arbitrary code execution on devices...
Attract more clients with new Barracuda Email Protection Plans
We are excited to share that the new Barracuda Email Protection Plans are now available to MSP partners. These tested and proven plans are designed to help scale your business while meeting your customers’ email security needs. With today’s...
Secure Access Service Edge (SASE): Protecting the new way of work
The shift to remote and hybrid work has fundamentally changed workplace dynamics and upended IT security approaches. Perimeter-based security is no longer effective in a world where most end-user traffic is web-based and coming from both within and outside the...
Pioneers in Tech: Happy birthday to AI pioneer John McCarthy
This week’s Pioneers in Tech takes a look at John McCarthy, the technology pioneer who coined the term “AI” back in 1955. Born Sept. 4, 1927, McCarthy first used “AI” in his proposal for the 1956 Dartmouth Conference, a gathering...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: New VMware Aria vulnerability identified
Today’s Cybersecurity Threat Advisory highlights an SSH authentication bypass flaw, identified as CVE-2023-34039, which has been discovered in VMware Aria. It has a severity rating of “critical” and a CVSS v3 scope of 9.8. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to...
Back-to-school highlights the importance of cybersecurity resiliency for educators
The rumbling yellow school buses and children at recess clambering on jungle gyms are becoming familiar sights. Schools are back in session across most of the country and while students have been having fun over the summer, hackers have been...
