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Privacy Tip #436 – Microsoft Warns of Crypto Wallet Scanning Malware StilachiRAT

A Microsoft blog post reported that incident response researchers uncovered a remote access trojan in November 2024 (dubbed StilachiRAT) that “demonstrates sophisticated techniques to evade detection, persist in the target...more

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Microsoft Report Highlights Attacks Against Healthcare Organizations

On October 22, 2024, Microsoft issued a threat trend research report entitled “US Healthcare at risk: Strengthening resilience against ransomware attacks.” In it, Microsoft declares that ransomware attacks against the...more

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Scattered Spider Using RansomHub and Qilin Ransomware Against Victims

We previously reported on the concerning mash-up of worldwide cybercriminals, known as Scattered Spider, working together to attack victims. New reports from Microsoft and others indicate that in the second quarter of...more

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Kudos to Microsoft’s Takedown of Storm-1152

There was a big win for the good guys against the bad guys this week. On December 13, 2023, after obtaining an order from the federal court in the Southern District of New York to seize U.S. based infrastructure and take...more

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CISA Recommends Following Microsoft’s Mitigation for Zero Day Exploits

Microsoft recently issued mitigation steps for vulnerabilities that are being actively exploited by threat actors. Microsoft stated that it is aware that two vulnerabilities are being actively exploited to access users’...more

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Patch Tuesday Release Includes Fix for Actively-Exploited Flaw

Microsoft released its monthly patches this week to fix 128 vulnerabilities, including 10 rated as critical, 115 as important, and three flagged as moderately severe. One of the vulnerabilities (CVE-2022-24521 Windows Common...more

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November’s Patch Tuesday Includes 55 Patches

Staying current with Microsoft’s monthly patches is challenging, yet critical for one’s cybersecurity program. This week, Microsoft’s November Patch Tuesday released 55 patches, six of which were categorized as “critical,”...more

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SolarWinds Hackers Focus on Downstream Vendors as Next Victims

In a blog post entitled “New activity from Russian actor Nobelium,” Microsoft’s V.P. of Customer Security & Trust Tom Burt discussed a recent alert issued by the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) regarding the...more

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Passwords Used by Iranian-Backed Hackers Against Defense Contractors

When you are educating your employees about the importance of maintaining a complex password or passphrase, share this story to show why it is so important and to emphasize not to use same or similar passphrases across...more

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Apple + Microsoft Release Patches for Identified Vulnerabilities

This week, both Apple and Microsoft issued patches to fix serious zero-day vulnerabilities that should be applied as soon as possible. That means that if you have an iPhone or iPad, you may want to plug your phone or iPad in...more

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[Virtual Event] Executive Roundtable Series in Canada: Digital Transformation after COVID-19: Compliance, Security and the Cloud -...

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Please join Epiq and Microsoft Canada for an interactive roundtable discussion on the impact of digital transformation, compliance, data protection and Information Governance in Canada's Healthcare Sector. This 60-minute...more

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[Virtual Event] Executive Roundtable Series in Canada: Digital Transformation after COVID-19: Compliance, Security and the Cloud -...

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Participate in thoughtful discussions with Epiq and Microsoft Canada on challenges, learnings and best practices on privacy, risk and compliance. Epiq and Microsoft Canada would like to personally invite you to join a...more

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[Virtual Event] Executive Roundtable Series in Canada: Digital Transformation after COVID-19: Compliance, Security and the Cloud -...

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Participate in thoughtful discussions with Epiq and Microsoft Canada on challenges, learnings and best practices on privacy, risk and compliance. Epiq and Microsoft Canada would like to personally invite you to join a...more

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[Virtual Event] Executive Roundtable Series in Canada: Digital Transformation after COVID-19: Compliance, Security and the Cloud -...

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Participate in thoughtful discussions with Epiq and Microsoft on challenges, learnings and best practices on privacy, risk and compliance. Epiq and Microsoft would like to personally invite you to join a 90-minute Risk &...more

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[Virtual Event] Executive Roundtable Series in Canada: Digital Transformation after COVID-19: Compliance, Security and the Cloud -...

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Participate in thoughtful discussions with Epiq and Microsoft on challenges, learnings and best practices on privacy, risk and compliance. Epiq and Microsoft would like to personally invite you to join a 90-minute Risk &...more

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[Virtual Event] Executive Roundtable Series in Canada: Digital Transformation after COVID-19: Compliance, Security and the Cloud -...

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Participate in thoughtful discussions with Epiq and Microsoft on challenges, learnings and best practices on privacy, risk and compliance. Epiq and Microsoft would like to personally invite you to join a 90-minute Risk &...more

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[Virtual Event] Executive Roundtable Series in Canada: Digital Transformation after COVID-19: Compliance, Security and the Cloud -...

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Participate in thoughtful discussions with Epiq and Microsoft on challenges, learnings and best practices on privacy, risk and compliance. Epiq and Microsoft would like to personally invite you to join a 90-minute Risk &...more

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UK National Cyber Security Centre Issues Security Alert for SharePoint Vulnerability

The UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) issued an alert on October 16, 2020, to raise awareness “of a new remote code execution vulnerability (CVE – 2020 – 16952)”, which affects Microsoft’s SharePoint product....more

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[Virtual Event] Executive Roundtable Series in Canada: Digital Transformation after COVID-19: Compliance, Security and the Cloud -...

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Participate in thoughtful discussions with Epiq and Microsoft on challenges, learnings and best practices on privacy, risk and compliance. Epiq and Microsoft would like to personally invite you to join a 90-minute Risk &...more

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[Virtual Event] Executive Roundtable Series in Canada: Digital Transformation after COVID-19: Compliance, Security and the Cloud -...

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Participate in thoughtful discussions with Epiq and Microsoft on challenges, learnings and best practices on privacy, risk and compliance. Epiq and Microsoft would like to personally invite you to join a 90-minute Risk &...more

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Participate in thoughtful discussions with Epiq and Microsoft on challenges, learnings and best practices on privacy, risk and compliance. Epiq and Microsoft would like to personally invite you to join a 90-minute Risk &...more

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Security Requirements in a COVID-19 Remote Work World

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The COVID-19 outbreak has certainly changed the way that we view business operations in the short term but possibly forever.  While many organizations have business continuity plans in place, most plans only account for...more

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Is Your Company Still Running Windows 7? READ THIS!

If you haven’t been paying attention to all the Microsoft warnings for the past year and your company is still running Windows 7, time’s up. After January 14, 2020, Microsoft will stop pushing out security updates to Windows...more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - January 2020 #2

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Department of Homeland Security Warns of Cyber-Attacks by Iran - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a grave warning to U.S. businesses and critical infrastructure operators on January 6, 2020, alerting the...more

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Iranian Cyber-Attacks and the End of Support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008

After the killing of Qassem Soleimani on January 3, 2020, by the U.S. government, the cybersecurity news industry has been abuzz about whether Iran will engage in cyber terrorism, and if so, to what degree, as part of its...more

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