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In The Wild - CyberSecurity Newsletter
Welcome to the 143rd issue of In The Wild, SBS’ weekly CyberSecurity newsletter. The objective of this newsletter is to share threat intelligence, news articles that are relevant, new and updated guidance, and other information you may find helpful.
Below, you will find some of the latest-and-greatest news stories, articles, videos, and links from the past week in cybersecurity. Some of the following stories have been shared by consultants, others by the SBS Institute, and others yet simply been found in the far corners of the Internet. We hope you find the following stories relevant, interesting, and – most of all – useful. Enjoy.
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When it comes to security, cyber hygiene is similar to taking care of your own wellness. Some individuals and organizations invest a lot of resources into making sure they’re mitigating risk from today’s big cyber threats, such as ransomware and data breaches. Conversely, some individuals and organizations haven’t made much investment into the basics of cybersecurity protection – otherwise known as cyber hygiene – to keep themselves from being the low-hanging fruit for online attackers looking for an easy target.
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Top domain name registrars NetworkSolutions.com, Register.com, and Web.com are asking customers to reset their passwords after discovering an intrusion in August 2019 in which customer account information was accessed.
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For the third quarter of this year, the average ransom amount paid was $41,198, an increase of 13 percent compared to the second quarter and a nearly six-fold increase from the third quarter of 2018, according to ransomware incident response firm Coveware. The five most-targeted industries in the third quarter were professional services, the public sector, healthcare, software services, and retail.
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When more than 20 local governments in Texas were hit this summer by ransomware in one day. The attack was apparently tracked back to one thing the organizations had in common: a managed service provider. With limited IT resources of their own, local governments have increasingly turned to MSPs to operate significant portions of their networks and applications, as have other organizations and businesses—often placing critical parts of their business operations in the MSPs' hands. And that has made MSPs a very attractive target to ransomware operators.
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As a cybersecurity professional, I have preached the importance of “prevention, detection, and response” for years when it comes to cybersecurity strategy. Twenty years ago, the cybersecurity industry’s main focus was on prevention, which makes sense because as a business or individual, ideally, you want to prevent a cyber breach from happening in the first place. But when organizations like the CIA get hacked, we realize prevention alone is not enough. If the most secure organization in the world can get cyber breached, then anyone can.
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Cybersecurity researchers have spotted a new cyberattack that is believed to be the very first but an amateur attempt to weaponize the infamous BlueKeep RDP vulnerability in the wild to mass compromise vulnerable systems for cryptocurrency mining. In May this year, Microsoft released a patch for a highly-critical remote code execution flaw, dubbed BlueKeep, in its Windows Remote Desktop Services that could be exploited remotely to take full control over vulnerable systems just by sending specially crafted requests over RDP.
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The Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) of the Center for Internet Security has released the October 2019 list of software that is currently in or nearing end of support. When software has reached end of support (EoS), it means the developers will no longer release fixes for any bugs that are found in the software. This includes fixes for security vulnerabilities that may be discovered.
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You’ll wake up for about 25,000 mornings in your adult life, give or take a few. The average life expectancy in the United States is 79 years old. If we use these average life expectancy numbers and assume that your adult life starts at 18 years old, then you’ve got about 68 years as an adult. (86 – 18 = 68) Perhaps a little less on average. A little more if you’re lucky. That's what you get in your adult life. 25,000 times you get to open your eyes, face the day, and decide what to do next. I don't know about you, but I've let a lot of those mornings slip by.
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10 Other Interesting Links From This Week
There were too many fantastic reads from this past weeks’ worth of cybersecurity and technology news, so here are a few additional quick-hit links for your reading pleasure:
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