Cybersecurity Articles

FTC releases new video to help keep your small business safe from fraud

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has released a new video to help keep your small business safe from fraud. This is another video in a series of videos from the FTC Protecting Small Businesses playlist.

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Patch these 10 most commonly exploited vulnerabilities

U.S. government cybersecurity experts are providing guidance on the “top 10” most commonly exploited vulnerabilites. The alert helps highlight the importance of patching and prioritizing vulnerabilities with known exploits.

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5 Good Cybersecurity Lessons Learned From FTC Law Enforcement Actions

Several years ago, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released a good video that is still highly relevent today. The video explains how companies can leverage NIST’s Cybersecurity Framework to greatly improve security in their organization. In this article, we highlight the five key tenants from the framework and how they could have possibly prevented FTC action and penalties.

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Guidelines for securing Content Management Systems

The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) has released new guidelines to assist organizations in securing Content Management Systems (CMS). The guidelines include good mitigation advice in areas of patching, account management, hardening and monitoring to name a few.

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NSA: Guidance to mitigate cloud vulnerabilities

The National Security Agency (NSA) has released guidelines to help organizations mitigate cloud vulnerabilities. The NSA document includes four classes of vulnerabilities at most risk to threat actors.

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Microsoft introduces Application Inspector

Microsoft has introduced a new source code analyzer tool dubbed Microsoft Application Inspector. The tool is designed to “identify interesting features in source code” and can help enable developers understand software components your apps use.

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WannaCry, Petya and Copycat Ransomware Expose Good History Lessons for Small Business and Enterprise Security

On May 12, 2017, the now infamous WannaCry ransomware burst onto the worldwide scene. WannaCry infected over 200,000 systems and 150 countries in just 3 days.

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