The lesson here: malicious actors continue to leverage the combination of automated scanners and scripts to strategically rack up high victim counts, especially when they sense time to inflict damage before patching is running out.
A surge of breaches against Microsoft Exchange Server appear to have rolled out in phases, with signs also pointing to other hackers using the same vulnerabilities after Microsoft announced a patch.
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In most IT shops, privacy, data security and compliance often resided under the same umbrella of ownership. While all 50 States in the US have data breach notification laws, we are seeing a shift in focus on data privacy globally. Privacy and data security compliance are often used interchangeably but this misuse in terminology (and the associated ...
The latest details confirm a trend SC Media reported earlier in the week, that security investigators were finding substantially more instances of breached Microsoft Exchange servers than Microsoft's original report of "limited and targeted" attacks may have let on.
As companies scramble to assess their own vulnerability amid the wave of supply chain attacks in recent months, law firms find themselves doing double duty: providing complex legal support to clients, and assessing internal safeguards to ensure they themselves practice what they preach.
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