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Abraham’s Ax emerges as new persona from Iranian hacking group Cobalt Sapling targeting Saudi Arabia for political leverage
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(Company News)
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COMPANY NEWS: Secureworks, a global leader in cybersecurity, published its latest analysis today from its Counter Threat Unit (CTU), revealing that Iranian threat group Cobalt Sapling, has re-emerged with ...
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Created on 30 January 2023
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iOS 16.3 now supports security keys
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(Security)
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...
iOS 16.3 is out of beta and is generally available now. iTWire has continually advocated the need for multi-factor authentication, as have our expert guests such as Secureworks head of threat intelligence ...
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Created on 27 January 2023
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iTWire TV: Alex Tilley on Infostealers and how businesses and individuals can combat them
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(Guest Interviews)
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iTWireTV speaks with Secureworks head of threat intelligence APJ Alex Tilley on the concerning threat of Infostealers, why businesses and individuals need to pay attention, and how to combat the threat. ...
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Created on 15 December 2022
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Iranian-backed group using Github to relay malware instructions
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(Guest Research)
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GUEST RESEARCH: New research from Secureworks Counter Threat Unit (CTU) has exposed the inner workings of a new custom malware, Drokbk. The malware is associated with a subgroup of Iranian Cobalt Mirage ...
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Created on 12 December 2022
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Secureworks selects Byrne and Naranjo
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(People Moves)
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Cybersecurity specialist Secureworks has appointed Paul Byrne to the role of APJ director of new business, and Catherine Naranjo to the role of channels lead.
Byrne joins Secureworks from Amplify Intelligence, ...
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Created on 06 December 2022
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2022 State of the Threat: a year in review
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(Guest Research)
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GUEST RESEARCH: In 2022, ransomware remained the most prevalent form of attack. In investigations by Secureworks incident responders, the median time between initial access and ransomware detonation dropped ...
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Created on 06 December 2022
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iTWire TV interview: Alex Tilley from Secureworks on how companies aren't doing non-sexy cybersecurity righ
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(Guest Interviews)
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Secureworks head of threat intelligence APJ Alex Tilley spoke to iTWireTV on cybersecurity basics companies must do - or, in other words, "you're not doing non-sexy cybersecurity right, and here's why."
In ...
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Created on 26 October 2022
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Secureworks launches Taegis XDR platform in Japan as threat from ransomware escalates
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(Company News)
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COMPANY NEWS: Secureworks, a global leader in cybersecurity, today announced that its extended detection and response platform Taegis will be generally available in Japan from 1 November 2022. Secureworks ...
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Created on 14 October 2022
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Secureworks State of the Threat Report 2022: 52% of ransomware incidents over the past year started with compromise of unpatched remote services
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(Remote Working)
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GUEST RESEARCH: Secureworks (NASDAQ:SCWX), published its annual State of the Threat Report today, revealing that the exploitation in remote services has become the primary initial access vector (IAV) in ...
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Created on 10 October 2022
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Secureworks CTU identifies new vulnerabilities in MSFT Azure AD pass-through authentication method
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(Guest Research)
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GUEST RESEARCH: Today, the Secureworks Counter Threat Unit published new research that demonstrates a proof-of-concept exploit of flaws found in Microsoft’s Azure Active Directory Pass-Through Authentication ...
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Created on 20 September 2022
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iTWireTV - Secureworks' Alex Tilley on business email compromise
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(Guest Interviews)
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CEO fraud has risen sharply in recent months. These CEO fraud scams target or impersonate CEOs, CFOs, or other C-level executives. Secureworks head of threat intelligence APAC Alex Tilley speaks with iTWireTV ...
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Created on 12 August 2022
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12.
Severe skills shortage for cybersecurity professionals a major concern for the industry
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(Guest Opinion)
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GUEST OPINION: For cyber criminals, the economics of a ransomware attack are overwhelmingly in their favour. Last year, according to ESG, 79% of organisations reported a ransomware attack, with Ponemon's ...
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Created on 08 August 2022
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13.
Secureworks CTU publishes research on new threat campaign targeting unsecured Elasticsearch databases
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(Security)
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Secureworks Counter Threat Unit (CTU) researchers have identified indexes of multiple unsecured internet-facing Elasticsearch databases replaced with a ransom note. The note demands a Bitcoin payment in ...
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Created on 06 June 2022
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iTWireTV interview - Secureworks Ian Bancroft and Demetrios Georgiou on how security teams can identify the alerts that really matter
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(Guest Interviews)
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... iTWireTV spoke with Secureworks chief sales officer Ian Bancroft and Secureworks director and GM APAC Demetrios Georgiou about extended detection and response and how it can make a huge difference in identifying ...
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Created on 30 May 2022
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Secureworks finds Bronze President threat group now targetting Russian speakers
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(Security)
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Secureworks Counter Threat Unit researchers find evidence that threat group Bronze President appears to be changing its targeting, believing it to reflect changing intelligence collection requirements ...
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Created on 23 May 2022
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Five tips for better password security
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(Guest Opinion)
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GUEST OPINION: It is critical to select strong passwords and properly manage them so they remain secure. Secureworks incident responders have recommended these best practices for you.
World Password ...
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Created on 12 May 2022
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Secureworks reports 200% Taegis ARR growth and record Taegis customer growth in connection with fourth quarter and full year fiscal 2022 results
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(Company News)
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COMPANY NEWS: Secureworks, a global leader in cybersecurity, today announced financial results for its fourth quarter and full fiscal year, which ended on 28 January 2022.
Key Highlights Secureworks ...
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Created on 30 March 2022
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18.
Mimecast integrates with Secureworks Taegis XDR to better protect email from threat actors, securing customers’ communications and data
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(Company News)
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COMPANY NEWS: Mimecast, a leading email security and cyber resilience company, today announced the availability of Mimecast for Secureworks Taegis XDR. Mimecast’s extensible architecture is now integrated ...
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Created on 11 January 2022
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Secureworks wins Frost & Sullivan’s 2021 company of the year award for Taegis ManagedXDR Innovation in the North American managed and professional security services market
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(Company News)
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COMPANY NEWS: Secureworks, a global leader in cyber security, today was named Frost & Sullivan’s 2021 Best Practices Company of the Year for driving the evolution of the managed and professional security ...
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Created on 11 January 2022
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20.
Cloudflare backs businesses with cyber insurance
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(Security)
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... built new relationships with incident response providers CrowdStrike, Mandiant, and Secureworks to refer companies under attack.
Cyber insurance surged from 26% in 2016 to 47% in 2020 following an increase ...
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Created on 16 December 2021
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Secureworks Taegis records 193% revenue growth
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(Company News)
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COMPANY NEWS: Security company Secureworks has released its financial results for the third quarter ending on 29 October 2021.
The highlights of the financial results are:
• Secureworks Taegis grew ...
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Created on 03 December 2021
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Georgiou takes on regional director role at Secureworks
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(People Moves)
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Security specialist Secureworks has appointed Demetrios Georgiou to the role of director of APAC.
Demetrios brings over 17 years of experience to the company.
He joins Secureworks from Bitdefender, ...
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Created on 26 November 2021
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iTWireTV Interview: Secureworks' Alex Tilley talks cybersecurity, ransomware, crypto, what business needs to do - and more!
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(Guest Interviews)
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... the bad guys aren't the only ones on the playing field: Secureworks and other security firms are working hard to fight back to keep businesses and individuals protected.
Secureworks. The company, owned ...
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Created on 19 October 2021
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VIDEO Interview: Secureworks' Alex Tilley talks cybersecurity, ransomware, crypto, what business needs to do - and more!
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(Security)
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... the bad guys aren't the only ones on the playing field: Secureworks and other security firms are working hard to fight back to keep businesses and individuals protected.
Secureworks. The company, owned ...
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Created on 19 October 2021
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Cybersecurity veteran Wendy Thomas promoted to president, CEO Secureworks
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(People Moves)
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Global security solutions vendor Secureworks has appointed Wendy K. Thomas to the role of President and Chief Executive Officer, replacing Michael R. Cote who has retired as CEO and as a member of the ...
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Created on 21 September 2021
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Secureworks integrates its Counter Threat Unit into Taegis VDR to identify vulnerabilities and eliminate attacks
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(Security)
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Security solutions vendor Secureworks says the integration of its Counter Threat Unit (CTU) into Taegis VDR (vulnerability and detection response) eliminates threats and vulnerabilities before they can ...
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Created on 08 July 2021
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27.
Ractliffe finds VP role at Lmntrix
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(People Moves)
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... to security maturity, and how Lmntrix and our partners can help," said Lmntrix CEO Carlo Minassian.
Ractliffe's previous positions include head of cybersecurity at Singtel-Optus, APAC director for Secureworks ...
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Created on 07 September 2020
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28.
Attackers use REvil ransomware to hit Texas retirement specialist
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(Security)
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... first identified in April last year and is operated by the GOLD SOUTHFIELD threat group, according to the counter threat unit research team at Secureworks.
The people behind the software make a ransom ...
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Created on 19 July 2020
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Gang uses REvil to attack Melbourne contract formulation firm Chem Pack
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(Security)
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... in April last year and is operated by the GOLD SOUTHFIELD threat group, according to the counter threat unit research team at Secureworks.
A screenshot of the Chem Pack data listed on the REvil website ...
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Created on 27 June 2020
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Melbourne IT services firm Geidi hit by REvil ransomware
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(Security)
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... which is also known as Sodinokibi, was first identified in April last year and is operated by the GOLD SOUTHFIELD threat group, according to the counter threat unit research team at Secureworks.
iTWire ...
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Created on 25 March 2020
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Increase in cyber attacks leading to complacency, warns tech pro
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(Security)
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... Micro and SecureWorks apart from the two named) provide attribution for the DNC hack?
I can’t comment on behalf of the vendors listed, but I can share Check Point’s stance on the matter of attribution. ...
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Created on 12 March 2019
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Visa to use credential-on-file tokenisation to improve security
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(Security)
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... to update their details when they lost a card or when it expired. Twelve percent took more than a month to do this.
Commenting on the Visa move, security firm Secureworks senior researcher Alex Tilley ...
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Created on 17 October 2018
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Questions about DNC hack still hang over CrowdStrike
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(Open Sauce)
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... firm, namely Secureworks and Trend Micro, were also pushing this Russia-hacked-the-DNC theme, but they engaged up to a point before staying silent.
My general query to both companies was on these lines: ...
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Created on 01 March 2018
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SamSam campaign attacks quietly but turns a profit: claim
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(Security)
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Researchers at security company Secureworks say they have been tracking Windows ransomware that stays below the radar by first exploiting a network vulnerability to gain entry into a Windows machine and ...
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Created on 19 February 2018
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Unpatched Oracle servers hit by cryptocurrency miners
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(Security)
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Unpatched Internet-facing Oracle WebLogic servers running on both Windows and Linux have been infected with cryptocurrency-mining malware, causing a degradation in performance, the security company Secureworks ...
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Created on 18 January 2018
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AP spreads 'Russia hacked DNC' claim as though it is gospel trut
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(Security)
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... company SecureWorks, which it claimed was exclusive. It was actually data that the company had been writing about itself since June last year. It was just the latest collection of data that was used.
Along ...
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Created on 16 November 2017
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37.
Spotting a miner using your PC's power is easy, says IT exper
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(Your Tech)
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... infosec official says.
Jon Cooper, senior incident response and forensic consultant at cyber security firm SecureWorks, was responding to queries from iTWire in the wake of reports that many sites ...
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Created on 20 October 2017
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38.
Dell bets on three-tier architecture for IoT
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(Internet of Things)
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... — Dell, Dell EMC, Pivotal, RSA, SecureWorks, Virtustream and VMware — have the building blocks along with others from the broader Dell Technologies ecosystem, and "we intend to make IoT real".
Existing ...
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Created on 11 October 2017
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Life in the trenches: a penetration tester speaks
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(Security)
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... penetration tester with security firm SecureWorks.
"Historically, organisations have been concerned about the reputational impact of data breaches. This is often a primary motivator for penetration ...
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Created on 09 October 2017
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40.
Dell Technologies turns one
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(Strategy)
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... in its first year.
After a series of divestitures, the Dell Technologies businesses are Dell, Dell EMC, Pivotal, RSA, SecureWorks, Virtustream and VMware.
Around US$9.5 billion of debt has been repaid. ...
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Created on 08 September 2017
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In Washington, it is an article of faith that Russia hacked the DNC
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(Open Sauce)
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... by CrowdStrike, the company handling security for the DNC, and pushed by Dell Secureworks and Trend Micro. However, when both Secureworks and Trend Micro were asked why CrowdStrike refused the FBI access ...
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Created on 14 August 2017
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Fake female persona used to plant remote access trojans on Windows PCs
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(Security)
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... Threat Unit of security company SecureWorks.
However, apart from gaining total access to their targets' computers, there was no indication offered by SecureWorks as to the endgame of the attackers. ...
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Created on 28 July 2017
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43.
Tech pro cautions on attribution of cyber attacks
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(Security)
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... sent detailed studies by the companies SecureWorks and Trend Micro which have attempted to lay blame on Russia for the hacks of the Democrat National Committee's emails last year.
And Kaspersky Lab has ...
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Created on 31 May 2017
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44.
Next Shadow Brokers exploit release through subscription
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(Security)
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... at security firm SecureWorks, said in response to queries that putting aside questions regarding the legitimacy of the Shadow Brokers' offer, the market for 0-day (unpatched, previously unknown exploits) ...
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Created on 31 May 2017
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Security firms marching to the political beat
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(Open Sauce)
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... favour with one side of politics on Capitol Hill.
In April, the company SecureWorks sent over a media release, claiming it had uncovered a link between a hacking group called Iron Twilight (aka APT28, ...
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Created on 25 May 2017
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Australian data breach notification: does it really solve everything?
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(Security)
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... it ensure all companies take precautions and implement top grade security?”
iTWire asked Alex Tilley, senior security researcher, Counter Threat Unit at SecureWorks (a public company spun out of Dell), ...
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Created on 16 March 2017
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SecureWorks to offer Carbon Black Cb Defense as a managed service
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(Security)
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SecureWorks will partner with leading next-generation endpoint security company, Carbon Black to provide managed, next-generation anti-virus (NGAV) protection to clients to block sophisticated security ...
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Created on 14 February 2017
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48.
Cyber security myths that just won't di
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(Security)
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Believing in Santa does no harm; believing misconceptions about the security of your organisation, however, does.
Secureworks' cyber intelligence senior adviser Brian Kime, former senior intelligence ...
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Created on 21 December 2016
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Day One for Dell Technologies
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(Strategy)
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Boomi (cloud integration), Pivotal (cloud-native Agile software), RSA (security), SecureWorks (security), Virtustream (cloud computing) and VMware (virtualisation) are other brands in the Dell Technologies ...
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Created on 08 September 2016
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Localised ransomware targeting APAC region: researchers
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(Security)
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Researchers at the counter threat unit of information security firm SecureWorks say they have found that the top four ransomware families are now targeting users in the Asia-Pacific region with localised ...
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Created on 30 August 2016