Category: Security
View from Australia: Is 2020 the year of the deepfake?
Malware and hackers do not recognize international boundaries. Human-made viruses quickly sweep across the globe like sneeze-passed cyber versions of their biological namesakes. The good news is that security precautions don’t stop at the borders either. Some of the most...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Windows 7 End of Life
Advisory Overview Windows 7 has reached end of life on January 14th, 2020. Users who fail to upgrade leave themselves vulnerable to newly discovered malware and remote code execution attacks as Microsoft will no longer provide security fixes for these...
Security Alert: Microsoft Windows Operating Systems
On January 14th, 2020, Microsoft released a handful of critical patches to address security vulnerabilities. These include Windows CryptoAPI, Windows Remote Desktop Gateway (RD Gateway), and Windows Remote Desktop Client. Any machines running 32- or 64-bit Windows 10 operating systems,...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Windows CryptoAPI Spoofing Vulnerability
Advisory Overview Multiple versions of Windows are susceptible to a spoofing vulnerability that could allow an attacker to modify TLS-encrypted communications or spoof an Authenticode signature. Microsoft has issued an update to fix the vulnerability which is available in the...
A threat to watch in 2020
Each year brings new threats, evolutions of old ones, and the typical arms-race between the good guys and the bad guys. One of the virtual battlefields expected to be active this year based on end-of-2019 trends: online advertising.
Identity access management emerges as major opportunity for MSPs in 2020
Managed service providers (MSPs) are keeping an eye out for any opportunity to expand the portfolio of services they offer. The challenge is determining what pain point affects a broad enough range of customers to financially sustain a practice. At...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Rise in Malicious Cyber Activity by Iranian Regime Actors
Advisory Overview There has been a rise in recent malicious cyber activity directed at United States industries and government agencies by Iranian regime actors and proxies, according to the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)...
2020 brings mounting pressure to MSPs’ defense against social engineering
In 2020, attackers using social engineering techniques to deliver payloads of malware will continue to adopt mainstream business practices – becoming as professional in their operations as the organizations they attack. In turn, businesses are seeking to become harder targets...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: LifeLabs Cyberattack & Data Breach
Advisory Overview During October 2019 LifeLabs experienced a large-scale ransomware incident where attackers potentially gained access to various pieces of personal information for up to 15 million customers primarily within the British Columbia & Ontario areas of Canada. LifeLabs reportedly...
MSPs need to get business leaders more involved in cybersecurity decisions
Managed service providers (MSPs) have been benefiting from increased spending on security software and services throughout the past year. However, while industry analysts report that spending on security has, on average, increased by 9 percent on a year-over-year basis, a...
