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Tech Time Warp: Spilling the tea about HotJava

Tech Time Warp: Spilling the tea about HotJava

In the mid-1990s, when early internet users were first exposed to the online world via AOL CD-ROMs, websites were static places. You could find text, graphics, and some choppy audio and video. But that was about to change with the...

/ September 29, 2023
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: New Microsoft Word vulnerability

Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: New Microsoft Word vulnerability

A new Microsoft Word vulnerability, CVE-2023-36761, was disclosed by Microsoft. This new vulnerability is rated 5.3 by NIST, a medium-level vulnerability but Microsoft has rated this as “Important”. Barracuda MSP recommends reviewing this Cybersecurity Threat Advisory in detail and follow...

/ September 28, 2023
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Apple releases patches for zero-day vulnerabilities

Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Apple releases patches for zero-day vulnerabilities

Apple has released more security patches after three zero-day vulnerabilities were discovered in iOS, iPadOS, MacOS, WatchOS, and Safari. These vulnerabilities are actively being exploited in the wild against several frameworks and systems of Apple products, making sixteen total zero-days...

/ September 26, 2023
Current IT monitoring approaches lead to MSP opportunity

Current IT monitoring approaches lead to MSP opportunity

As environments become more complex, the level of satisfaction with existing approaches to IT monitoring is declining. A survey of 500 IT leaders conducted by Method Research on behalf of LogicMonitor finds nearly half of respondents (46 percent) have negative...

/ September 25, 2023
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Threat actor targets government

Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Threat actor targets government

This Cybersecurity Threat advisory discusses a Chinese threat actor known as “Earth Lusca” has been observed targeting government entities. They are using a never-before-seen Linux backdoor called SprySOCKS. Earth Lusca was first documented by Trend Micro in January 2022, detailing...

/ September 25, 2023
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Critical security patches for GitLab

Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Critical security patches for GitLab

This Cybersecurity Threat Advisory highlights GitLab’s recent critical vulnerability, which security update have been released for. A successful exploitation can allow threat actors to mask themselves as other users during scheduled security scans while they run automated tasks (also known...

/ September 22, 2023
Tech Time Warp
Tech Time Warp: History of the first case of ransomware

Tech Time Warp: History of the first case of ransomware

In this week’s Tech Time Warp, we look at the recent cybersecurity news out of Las Vegas sounds like something from Ocean’s 11, no matter whether your taste runs to Frank Sinatra or George Clooney: two of the world’s largest...

/ September 22, 2023
Webinar: “Uplevel Your MSP Business” with Barracuda MSP

Webinar: “Uplevel Your MSP Business” with Barracuda MSP

The turbulent cyberthreat landscape has many MSPs rethinking their strategies when it comes to cybersecurity. And in turn, this affects how they uplevel their MSP businesses. So, what can you do? Well, smart MSPs, such as MJ Flood, look for...

/ September 21, 2023
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Updated Bumblebee malware loader discovered

Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Updated Bumblebee malware loader discovered

Today’s Cybersecurity Threat advisory discusses the update to the popular Bumblebee malware loader that increases its defense evasion capabilities. The loader is commonly distributed via “.lnk” (softlink/shortcut) files attached to an email or compressed in a .zip archive attached to...

/ September 21, 2023
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: BlackCat ransomware targets Microsoft Azure

Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: BlackCat ransomware targets Microsoft Azure

This Cybersecurity Threat Advisory reviews the latest movements of the BlackCat ransomware gang. They are using the Sphynx encryptor to target Microsoft Azure storage through a recently discovered vulnerability in Azure’s security infrastructure. The BlackCat (ALPHV) ransomware gang is using...

/ September 20, 2023