Category: Security
Healthcare industry cyber threats significantly on the rise
“Healthcare data breach: 2.4m records potentially exposed at Forefront Dermatology.” “Data breach may have compromised up to 68,000 Advocate Aurora Health patients’ info.” “Data Breach at UC San Diego Health.” “US medical imaging center reports possible data breach after emails...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Apple macOS Critical Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Apple has released an emergency update for a critical kernel privilege escalation vulnerability in macOS Big Sur 11. This vulnerability allows an attacker to utilize the app to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges. Barracuda MSP recommends updating to the...
New security guidance will raise cost of delivering managed service
The cybersecurity authorities of the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States have issued an alert to notify managed service providers (MSPs) of an increase in malicious cyber activity and provide best practice security guidance for how...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Zyxel Firewall vulnerability
Zyxel’s ATP, VPN, and USG FLEX series business firewalls are affected by a Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability that allows unauthenticated malicious attackers to execute arbitrary commands on the affected devices. Over 20,800 devices have been affected by this vulnerability,...
Global MSP Day 2022 is finally here
The day that we’ve been anticipating for the past few months has finally arrived: Global MSP Day 2022! Having the opportunity to celebrate MSPs around the world never gets old. You have all evolved, overcome challenges, and embraced opportunities over...
Why MSPs should up their own security game
Significant breaches and large companies are what grab headlines. If a Colonial Pipeline or a college campus gets hit, that’s what people hear about. Often, behind the scenes are the managed service providers doing the day in and day out...
Hackers harvest agri-business ransomware
MSPs with a portfolio of clients that include nondescript agriculture and food processing businesses, often think they are off the radar of sophisticated international hackers. Yet, this is not the case at all.
Q&A: An MSP’s perspective on Global MSP Day
As Global MSP Day approaches (May 20, 2022), SmarterMSP caught up with MSP partner Moss Jacobson, Director of New Business Development at CTN Solutions, to understand what he is seeing in terms of trends, challenges, and opportunities, and what he...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Threat actors targeting VoIP provides with DDoS attacks
F5 has released a set of vulnerabilities including 17 high and 1 critical which affect the users of BIG-IP application delivery controller. The vulnerabilities provide malicious actors the ability to deploy crypto mining, ransomware, or other malicious files to the...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: TLStorm 2.0 vulnerabilities
Up to 5 vulnerabilities were uncovered within the use of the TLS protocol in multiple models of the Aruba and Avaya Network switches. These vulnerabilities, if exploited, can provide threat actors remote access to enterprise networks and to transfer confidential...
