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It’s World Backup Day – Are Your Backups Providing Value?
Your Data Is More Valuable Than Your Device Because it's 2021, and the entire IT industry has spent literal decades telling everyone they need backups, I'm sure you have a backup system in place. Hopefully you sleep well at night, confident that the backup system you...
This Might Make You Think Twice About Participating in a Security Awareness Training
NetStandard's Security Minute Series We have all seen the "fake tech support" scams, or the various similar ones that all involve talking to a scammer in a (usually foreign) datacenter somewhere. KnowBe4 called one of these scammers and documented the whole process....
Microsoft Continues to Take Unprecedented Steps to Resolve the Exchange Vulnerabilities
NetStandard's Security Minute Series Since the release of ransomware targeting the new Exchange vulnerabilities (which Scott discussed last week), the number of attacks has grown by 10X. This has become the most significant software vulnerability in a very long...
Take the Ransom Out of Ransomware
NetStandard's Security Minute Series So the Exchange attacks just keep getting worse. The estimated number of affected Exchange servers is up into the tens of thousands (I've seen some estimates in the hundreds of thousands!), and there are at least 10 other attack...
For Our Customers: Recent Exchange Vulnerabilities
Last week, it was widely reported that four previously unknown or “zero-day” vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s Exchange Server software were being actively exploited by groups of cyber attackers. These defects could allow attackers to steal data or deploy malicious...
Maximize Your Security Offerings With Microsoft
NetStandard's Security Minute Series The biggest news of the week: Microsoft announced emergency out-of-band patches for Exchange Server, to fix 4 actively exploited 0-day vulnerabilities. There are many, many reports of hundreds of servers being compromised -...
Cybersecurity Trends to Keep an Eye on
NetStandard's Security Minute Series There's a new critical vulnerability in vCenter, allowing an attacker to use port 443 to gain root access to vCenter. Even if you don't have port 443 exposed to the internet, an attacker that breaches an end-user PC (from a...
Cyberattacks Are Evolving, Are You?
NetStandard's Security Minute Series This is scary: The IT monitoring software Centreon was attacked, and allowed the Sandworm group access to Centreon for 3 years. IT monitoring software is generally very trusted software, with visibility to everything inside a...
Vulnerable to Security Risks? Monitor and Patch Your Devices Now!
NetStandard's Security Minute Series This week was Patch Tuesday! Microsoft released patches for 58 different bugs (the smallest number in a year!), but called out 4 as being especially noteworthy - an actively-exploited zero-day, two remote code executions,...
Trickbot Targeting Legal and Insurance Providers
Consider keeping your business safe with email filtering Trickbot Targeting Legal and Insurance Providers One of the most active sources of malicious emails over the past couple of years has been Trickbot. Trickbot has been a major target from...

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