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Tech Time Warp: A game “so simple that any drunk in any bar could play”
Sometimes the best ideas really are the simplest, and compared with the complexity of today’s video games or even some of its early pioneering contemporaries, that was the basis of Pong. Released on Nov. 29, 1972, Pong was—in the words...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: RomCom exploits vulnerabilities
Recent reports have uncovered that a threat actor known as RomCom has been exploiting two zero-day vulnerabilities, one in Mozilla Firefox and another in Microsoft Windows, to deploy their proprietary backdoor malware. These vulnerabilities, CVE-2024-9680 and CVE-2024-49039, have been actively...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: WordPress plugin critical vulnerabilities
Two critical security flaws have been identified in a WordPress plugin—Anti-Spam by CleanTalk. This plugin is installed on more than 200,000 websites. Review this Cybersecurity Threat Advisory to learn how to mitigate your risks from these vulnerabilities. What is...
Behind the scenes with Barracuda at IT Nation Connect!
A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to attend IT Nation Connect in Orlando Florida with the Barracuda team. Along with seeing all of the exciting things that the team had in store for the event, the team and...
Cyberthreat predictions for 2025 from Barracuda’s security frontline
Predicting the future isn’t easy, but you can anticipate what is likely to happen by looking at how things have evolved over the past year. This year again, Barracuda asked colleagues who work on the security frontlines about the things...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Kemp LoadMaster and VMware vCenter vulnerabilities
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added critical vulnerabilities in Progress Kemp LoadMaster (CVE-2024-1212) and VMware vCenter Server (CVE-2024-38812, CVE-2024-38813) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. These vulnerabilities allow attackers to execute arbitrary commands, gain remote...
Tech Time Warp: Conficker’s persistent ability to outsmart defenses
For the past 16 years, Conficker has been a virulent piece of malware. First identified in November 2008, it continues to persist in legacy operating systems (looking at you, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003). Take a look back in...
Why building a successful sales team depends on your mindset
I recently had a discussion with a business owner who said it was time to start building his sales team. My initial thought? That’s excellent news for him! His business is maturing, and he’s ready to take his revenue generation...
Threat Spotlight: Bad bots are evolving to become more ‘human’
The bot landscape is changing. Malicious — or bad bots — are evolving to become more advanced and human-like in their behavior, while an emerging category of AI bots, which we might think of as “grey bots,” is blurring the...
Enhance security services with biometrics
Biometrics is exploding in popularity as a security tool with research indicating that 81 percent of consumers consider biometrics a more secure method of identity verification than traditional methods. Illustrating the embrace of this technology is the global biometric authentication...
