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ICYMI: Separately, UK’s Royal Mail Blames ‘Cyber Incident’ for Service Disruption Anytime critical infrastructure gets disrupted, the first question inevitably seems to be: Was a cyberattack to blame? So it went Wednesday when the Federal Aviation Administration announced a “ground stop,” prohibiting all U.S. flights from taking off, due to an overnight system failure.http://dlvr.it/SgnJ22

Reports ‘No Evidence’ Twitter Flaw Exploited to Amass Latest Leaked Data on Users Twitter says a massive collection of purported user data being sold and then leaked via cybercrime markets was not amassed by exploiting a vulnerability in its systems but is instead “likely a collection of data already publicly available online through different sources.”http://dlvr.it/Sgn3yK

December Incident that Shut Down UK Offices Was Ransomware The Guardian newspaper told staffers Wednesday that a December cyber incident was a ransomware attack and that hackers have accessed staff information. The breach is limited to UK staff and no personal data of readers or staff in its U.S. or Australian offices has been affected.http://dlvr.it/Sgkrb3

ICYMI: This past October, during a ransomware assault on a healthcare facility in southwest Louisiana, hackers collected and exposed the personal information of approximately 270,000 patients and workers. A ransomware organization known as …http://dlvr.it/SgkTTM

Zero Day Affects With Swath of Windows Versions Microsoft fixed an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability in 2023’s first Patch Tuesday dump. The Redmond giant also issued fixes for 98 other vulnerabilities, including 11 classified as critical and 87 as important. The zero day vulnerability could be used as part of a ransomware attack.http://dlvr.it/SgkSLw

Separately, UK’s Royal Mail Blames ‘Cyber Incident’ for Service Disruption Anytime critical infrastructure gets disrupted, the first question inevitably seems to be: Was a cyberattack to blame? So it went Wednesday when the Federal Aviation Administration announced a “ground stop,” prohibiting all U.S. flights from taking off, due to an overnight system failure.http://dlvr.it/SgkP9r

ICYMI: How SMEs Can Achieve Enterprise-Grade Cybersecurity Although small to medium enterprises – SMEs – do not have the security resources larger enterprise possess, they face the same risks. Here are five reasons you should consider consolidating your tech as you strive to find an effective, sustainable security stack that also keeps costs in check.http://dlvr.it/Sgjv2q

ICYMI: View this webinar to learn how to improve your attack surface management visibility with continuous penetration testing.http://dlvr.it/SggqMT

ICYMI: Troy Leach on Cloud Security Skills, Challenges and Trends “If we look at all of the types of issues with cloud breaches, it always comes down to misconfiguration,” says Troy Leach of Cloud Security Alliance. “The challenge is: People try to treat cloud environments the same as they’ve always done on-premises, and that is…
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ICYMI: Companies of all sizes may benefit from managed IT services since they offer a variety of technical support and maintenance services while also saving time and money. Managed IT services may benefit …http://dlvr.it/SggWpt