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Fred McClimans

The DarkSide of Colonial’s Ransomware Payment – It Doesn’t Fix the Problem

Colonial Pipeline rapidly paid ransomware provider DarkSide $5 billion Bitcoin to unlock and restore its IT systems, but this ransomware attack exposed a glaring weakness in critical infrastructure security: the IT/OT issue. Futurum’s Fred McClimans and Shelly Kramer covered this attack in a recent episode of their Cybersecurity Shorts series on the Futurum Tech Webcast and why this may have turned back on the pipeline but doesn’t come close to addressing the real security threats we face today.
Fred McClimans

Why the FBI Covertly Fixing Vulnerabilities in Private Servers Related to the Microsoft Exchange Server Attack is a Really Big Deal

Shelly Kramer

Toshiba’s European Operations Hit by Hacker Group DarkSide Cyberattack

In this short vignette from our Cybersecurity Shorts series of the Futurum Tech Webcast, analysts Shelly Kramer and Fred McClimans cover news of yet another DarkSide attack, this time on a subsidiary of Toshiba’s European operations. The company reported that as a result of the attack, they shut down network connections between Europe and Japan to mitigate potential risk as the hack is being investigated, and the scope of the cyberattack is not yet known.
Shelly Kramer

Ireland’s Health System Victim of Ransomware Attack, Completely Shuts Down

In this vignette from the Cybersecurity Shorts series of the Futurum Tech Webcast, analysts Shelly Kramer and Fred McClimans discuss Ireland’s Health System completely shutting down, falling victim to a ransomware attack.
Shelly Kramer

Biden Administration Signs Executive Order Aimed at Hardening Fed Cybersecurity Defenses

Futurum’s Shelly Kramer covers the news of the Biden administration’s signing of an Executive Order aimed at hardening the Fed’s cybersecurity defenses by establishing a Cybersecurity Safety Review Board, as well as establishing standards for software vendors selling to the Federal government.
Shelly Kramer

Cybersecurity Shorts: Colonial Pipeline Attack, DarkSide’s Ransomware-as-a-Service, Executive Order Hardening Fed Cybersecurity Defenses

In this newest episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, Cybersecurity Shorts series, analysts Shelly Kramer and Fred McClimans discuss nuances of the Colonial Pipeline attack and how the weakest link can take down the whole system, DarkSide’s Ransomware-as-a-Service offering, DarkSide’s servers being taken out, the Biden administration’s Executive Order aimed at hardening the Fed’s cybersecurity defenses, and the unusual act of the FBI and its court-ordered mitigation of Microsoft Exchange servers impacted by the recent hack.
Shelly Kramer

Enterprise Password Manager Passwordstate Hacked in Supply Chain Attack

Shelly Kramer

The US/UK Governments Issue Cybersecurity Advisory on Russian Threat Actor Activity

Shelly Kramer

Peloton’s Leaky API is Hubris Personified — at Least When It Comes to User Personal User Safety and Data Privacy

Shelly Kramer

Cybersecurity Shorts — Google’s 2FA Mandate, Peloton’s Leaky API, and Password Management App Malware

In this episode of Futurum’s Cybersecurity Shorts, analysts Shelly Kramer and Fred McClimans tackle topics ranging from Google’s rollout of mandatory 2FA, Peloton’s leaky API and the impact on users’ data privacy, the targeting of Passwordstate, an Australian-based enterprise password management app, the massive DDoS attack against a Belgian ISP and its broad impact, to a joint advisory published by CISA and the UK’s National Cybersecurity Centre on Russian Foreign Intelligence Service.
Daniel Newman

Splunk Observability Cloud Paves Its Future in IT and DevOps

This week, Splunk hosted its observability day to celebrate the release of its observability suite and to share vision for its development.
Shelly Kramer

In Hacking News: 3.2 Billion Leaked Passwords Contain 1.5 Million Records and Ties to Government Emails

In this Cybersecurity Shorts episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, analysts Shelly Kramer and Fred McClimans discuss the 3.2 billion password leak recently released in an online form. This 100GB data set includes 2.18 million unique emails and 26 million email domains, including some 1.5 million world government emails and 625,000-ish U.S. government passwords. Even more alarming is what the human behavior that’s involved here shows threat actors looking for targets
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