NetStandard’s Security Minute Series The big ransomware victim of the week was JBS Meats. It’s not known if JBS paid a ransom or not. The US government has pointed the finger at Revil / Sodinokibi: US: Russian threat actors likely behind…

NetStandard’s Security Minute Series  In 2011, the IT world was shocked to learn that RSA was hacked, and the seed values for SecurID tokens were stolen. This left every SecurID token in the world vulnerable and exposed – if you…

NetStandard’s Security Minute Series  The big ransomware news from last weekend was Colonial Pipeline, the largest fuel pipeline operator on the East Coast, which was forced to shut down its entire network and all operations after being hit with ransomware…

NetStandard’s Security Minute Series  Data exfiltration by attackers is on the rise. By some statistics, up to 80% of all ransomware attacks now include the threat of leaking data publicly. It’s the future of ransomware: Ransomware: The Data Exfiltration and Double Extortion Trends…

NetStandard’s Security Minute Series  This Tuesday, 5/4, I’m doing a webinar with Miller Group. Sign up, tell your friends!  The Ransomware Task Force, a group of more than 50 cybersecurity experts, has published a detailed framework for how public and private entities can…

NetStandard’s Security Minute Series  In this week’s big-game ransomware news, Revil announced that they have attacked Quanta, a Taiwanese computer manufacturer. Quanta is notable because the company is one of Apple’s largest suppliers, and manufactures MacBooks and Apple Watches. Revil…

NetStandard’s Security Minute Series  This past week was Patch Tuesday! This month includes new patches for Microsoft Exchange. The new Exchange vulnerabilities are not known to be exploited in the wild….yet….though with the increased attack focus on Exchange these days,…

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,…

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…

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 time: Exploits…