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Emerging Ransomware BQTLock & GREENBLOOD Disrupt Businesses in Minutes 

How long would it take your team to realize ransomware is already running?  The newly identified ransomware families are already causing real business disruption. These threats can disrupt operations fast while also reducing visibility through stealth or cleanup activity, shrinking the time teams have to detect and contain the attack.  Here’s what you should know about BQTLock and GREENBLOOD, and how your team can detect and contain them before…

How to Prioritize Vulnerability Remediation (Without Losing Your Mind)

Let’s say you run a vulnerability scan and it finds 100 issues across your environment. Ten are labeled critical Fifteen are high Twenty are medium The rest are low or informational The report helpfully tells you to fix everything immediately. This is where reality kicks in. Most organizations cannot patch every vulnerability the moment it…

Explore scaling options for AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory

You can use AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory as your primary Active Directory Forest for hosting your users’ identities. Your IT teams can continue using existing skills and applications while your organization benefits from the enhanced security, reliability, and scalability of AWS managed services. You can also run AWS Managed Microsoft AD as…

IAM Identity Center now supports IPv6

Amazon Web Services (AWS) recommends using AWS IAM Identity Center to provide your workforce access to AWS managed applications—such as Amazon Q Developer—and AWS accounts. Today, we announced IAM Identity Center support for IPv6. To learn more about the advantages of IPv6, visit the IPv6 product page. When you enable IAM Identity center, it provides…

Security Hub CSPM automation rule migration to Security Hub

A new version of AWS Security Hub is now generally available with new capabilities to aggregate, correlate, and contextualize your security alerts across Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts. The prior version is now known as AWS Security Hub CSPM and will continue to be available as a unique service focused on cloud security posture management…

Security Hub CSPM automation rule migration to Security Hub

A new version of AWS Security Hub is now generally available with new capabilities to aggregate, correlate, and contextualize your security alerts across Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts. The prior version is now known as AWS Security Hub CSPM and will continue to be available as a unique service focused on cloud security posture management…

Attackers Don’t Need to Breach Your API -They’ll Breach the Tools That Touch It

The API supply chain is the new security blind spot. Attackers no longer need to breach your APIs directly; they can target the third-party services that connect to them. These unmanaged dependencies are now the shortest path to your sensitive data. The recent Mixpanel incident is a stark reminder of that fact.  What Happened During…

Attackers Don’t Need to Breach Your API -They’ll Breach the Tools That Touch It

The API supply chain is the new security blind spot. Attackers no longer need to breach your APIs directly; they can target the third-party services that connect to them. These unmanaged dependencies are now the shortest path to your sensitive data. The recent Mixpanel incident is a stark reminder of that fact.  What Happened During…

When your mouse turns snitch, and hackers grow a conscience

Your computer’s mouse might not be as innocent as it looks – and one ransomware crew has a crisis of conscience that nobody saw coming. We talk about how something as ordinary as a web page could turn your mouse into a surprisingly nosey neighbour, and why ransomware gangs need to think carefully about their…

How hackers turned AI into their new henchman

Your AI reads the small print, and that’s a problem. This week in episode 433 of “Smashing Security” we dig into LegalPwn – malicious instructions tucked into code comments and disclaimers that sweet-talks AI into rubber-stamping dangerous payloads (or even pretending they’re a harmless calculator). Meanwhile, new research from Anthropic reveals that hackers have already…

Oops! I auto-filled my password into a cookie banner

We unpack how some password managers can be tricked into coughing up your secrets, with a clickjacking sleight-of-hand, what website owners can do to prevent it, and how to lock down your personal password vault. Then we time-hop to the post-quantum scramble: “harvest-now, decrypt later”, Microsoft’s 2033 quantum-safe pledge, and whether your printer will survive…

The danger of data breaches — what you really need to know

In today’s digital world, your personal data is like cold hard cash, and that’s why cyberthieves are always looking for ways to steal it. Whether it’s an email address, a credit card number, or even medical records, your personal information is incredibly valuable in the wrong hands. For hackers, breaking into a company database is…

The danger of data breaches — what you really need to know

In today’s digital world, your personal data is like cold hard cash, and that’s why cyberthieves are always looking for ways to steal it. Whether it’s an email address, a credit card number, or even medical records, your personal information is incredibly valuable in the wrong hands. For hackers, breaking into a company database is…

Marketing Strategy vs Tactics

Marketing is one of the most important aspects of running a small business—you must get your company name and product or service information in front of potential customers, or else risk losing them to your competitors. To accomplish this, you need a marketing approach that includes both marketing strategies and tactics.  The terms marketing strategy […]

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Creating a Strategic Marketing Plan

A solid marketing plan can help you meet your goals and grow your business. In fact, CoSchedule’s 2022 Trend Report on Marketing Strategy revealed that marketers who have a clear, organized process for their marketing tasks are 674 percent more likely to report success than their less-organized counterparts.  Goal-setting, proactivity, and organization are all hallmarks […]

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Creating a Strategic Marketing Plan

A solid marketing plan can help you meet your goals and grow your business. In fact, CoSchedule’s 2022 Trend Report on Marketing Strategy revealed that marketers who have a clear, organized process for their marketing tasks are 674 percent more likely to report success than their less-organized counterparts.  Goal-setting, proactivity, and organization are all hallmarks…