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Mark Potter assumes CISO role at Backblaze

March 19, 2021

Backblaze, Inc., a storage cloud company, appointed Mark Potter as Chief Information Security Officer as the company continues to bolster its leadership team to drive growth.

FBI alerts of rise in PYSA ransomware targeting schools

March 19, 2021

There has been an significant increase in PYSA ransomware targeting education institutions in 12 U.S. states and the U.K., according to a joint Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) flash industry alert.

CISA: Leveraging mobile applications to bolster emergency alerts and warnings

March 19, 2021

As more people turn to their cellphones for news and information, there becomes an increased need to develop innovative alerts and warning applications (apps). These apps notify the public of a current or imminent event or disaster and provide the public with any necessary actions to keep citizens safe. The latest National Emergency Communications Plan (NECP) Spotlight highlights the successful use of these apps in real-life scenarios across the United States and demonstrates how the NECP’s recommendations promote the development and adoption of new technologies that enhance communication capabilities.

New spear phishing emails target C-suite executives, assistants & financial departments

March 19, 2021

Area 1 Security recently stopped a sophisticated Microsoft Office 365 credential harvesting campaign targeting C-suite executives, high-level assistants, and financial departments across numerous industries, including financial services, insurance, and retail. Further research and analysis of the activity revealed a much larger operation than originally discovered. This included several additional directly-related credential phishing campaigns that targeted the same industries and positions using sophisticated techniques and advanced phishing kits, to bypass Microsoft’s native email defenses and email authentication.

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U.S. sees significant rise in anti-Asian attacks and crimes during the pandemic

March 18, 2021

According to multiple sources, crimes targeting Asian Americans have risen dramatically since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic.

Argyle texas independent school district implements emergency security communications platform

Texas school district in Argyle implements district-wide communications system

March 18, 2021

Argyle Independent School District is located in Argyle, Texas was looking to implement an emergency communications system across the district for everyday alerts, as well as emergencies, threats or weather events.

Mimecast releases report on SolarWinds security incident investigation

March 18, 2021

Mimecast released an incident response report on their internal investigation of the SolarWinds supply chain attack. The investigation was supported by third-party forensics and cyber incident response experts at Mandiant, a division of FireEye, and in coordination with law enforcement to aid their investigation into this threat actor.

FBI releases the Internet Crime Complaint Center 2020 Internet Crime Report

March 18, 2021

The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center has released its annual report. The 2020 Internet Crime Report includes information from 791,790 complaints of suspected internet crime—an increase of more than 300,000 complaints from 2019—and reported losses exceeding $4.2 billion. State-specific statistics have also been released and can be found within the 2020 Internet Crime Report and in the accompanying 2020 State Reports.

58% of data backups are failing, creating data protection challenges

Veeam Data Protection Report 2021 finds that COVID-19 has significantly impacted Digital Transformation (DX) spending, with 40% of global organizations viewing economic uncertainty as the greatest barrier to DX in the next 12 months and one-third having slowed or halted initiatives in the past year

March 18, 2021

Data protection challenges are undermining organizations’ ability to execute Digital Transformation (DX) initiatives globally, according to the Veeam Data Protection Report 2021, which has found that 58% of backups fail leaving data unprotected. The report revealed that against the backdrop of COVID-19 and ensuing economic uncertainty, which 40% of CXOs cite as the biggest threat to their organization’s DX in the next 12 months, inadequate data protection and the challenges to business continuity posed by the pandemic are hindering organizations’ initiatives to transform.

Security sandbox podcast with CSO Amanda Fennell

CSO Amanda Fennell brings her unconventional approach to legal, cyber and compliance issues to the Security Sandbox podcast

March 18, 2021

Amanda Fennell, Chief Security Officer (CSO) at global legal and compliance technology company Relativity, has decided to bring her experience to audio in a new podcast called Security Sandbox.