Cybersecurity Archives - Page 6 of 6

August 29, 2021

At a meeting with President Biden on Wednesday, business leaders from a variety of industries pledged billions of dollars to beef up cybersecurity efforts. Cyberattacks, such as those on government software contractor SolarWinds and oil pipeline Colonial Pipeline, have brought added urgency to such security concerns. The commitments include creating new industry standards, providing stronger […]

May 31, 2020

Sophos, a global leader in next-generation cybersecurity, has detected a new ransomware attack method which takes defense evasion to a new level—deploying as a full virtual machine on each targeted device to hide the ransomware from view. In a recently detected attack, Ragnar Locker ransomware was deployed inside an Oracle VirtualBox Windows XP virtual machine. […]

July 18, 2019

Key Survey Findings: IT teams spend 26 percent of their time managing security, yet still struggle with a lack of expertise, budget and up to date technology 66 percent IT managers said their organization’s cybersecurity budget (including people/technology) is below what it needs to be 75 percent IT managers believe staying up to date with […]

After meeting Biden, Google, Microsoft plan to invest billions in cybersecurity

Ragnar Locker ransomware deploys virtual machine to dodge security: Sophos

Only 20 percent IT managers believe they have a skilled team in place to properly detect, investigate and respond to cybersecurity incidents