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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Cyber Pros Say How AI Is Changing Their Work, While the FBI Reports Ransomware Hit Critical Infrastructure Hard in 2023

Tenable

More than 40% of ransomware attacks last year impacted critical infrastructure. 1 - FBI: Critical infrastructure walloped by ransomware attacks in 2023 The number of U.S. ransomware incidents grew 18% in 2023 to 2,825, and 42% of those attacks impacted critical infrastructure organizations. And much more!

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Daily Crunch: Marqeta acquires fintech infrastructure startup Power Finance for $275M

TechCrunch

— Christine and Haje The TechCrunch Top 3 “Power”ing up Marqeta’s portfolio : Marqeta made its first acquisition, securing Power Finance in a $275 million all-cash deal, Mary Ann reports. And here’s a handful more, because we love ya: That’s a lot of walls, y’all : Connie reports that Fifth Wall, focused on real estate tech and managing $3.2

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10 essential tips for bolstering cloud security in your business

CIO

This makes it more critical than ever to adopt strong security measures to protect sensitive information and infrastructure. Adopt a Defense in Depth strategy Defense in Depth (DiD) is a cybersecurity strategy that involves implementing multiple layers of security controls throughout the entire infrastructure.

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Today’s Attack Trends — Unit 42 Incident Response Report

Palo Alto Networks

Our 2024 Unit 42 Incident Response Report will help you understand the threats that matter. Read the report to learn how to safeguard your organization's assets and operations: Threat actors, their methods and their targets. Other data in our report indicates it may be that defenders are improving.

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CVE-2023-46747: Critical Authentication Bypass Vulnerability in F5 BIG-IP

Tenable

A critical authentication bypass vulnerability in F5’s BIG-IP could allow remote, unauthenticated attackers to execute system commands. Analysis CVE-2023-46747 is a critical severity authentication bypass vulnerability in F5 BIG-IP that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to achieve remote code execution (RCE).

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What Is Multifactor Authentication (MFA), Why It Matters and Its Critical Role in Cybersecurity

Kaseya

Multifactor authentication (MFA) is an identity verification and cybersecurity essential where users confirm their identities using more than one method. What is multifactor authentication (MFA)? How does multifactor authentication work? This is something they know, serving as the foundational layer of authentication.

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How to minimize remote access cyber security threats in 2024

CIO

The key types of exposures, in order of prevalence, include web framework takeover, remote access services, IT and networking infrastructure, file sharing, and database exposures and vulnerabilities. The attack landscape has evolved to target critical infrastructure.