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WannaCry Ransomware Review and Global Impact.

ProtectWise

Any network with hosts running a version of the Windows operating system missing the MS17-010 patches is vulnerable to WannaCry's infection mechanism. The patches for Microsoft (currently supported) operating systems were released on March 14, 2017 following the Shadow Brokers leak. Who Created The Malware?

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IoT Adoption in Healthcare Brings Security Opportunities

CIO

In August 2022, the French hospital Centre Hospitalier Sud Francilien (CHSF) was the victim of a ransomware attack that disabled medical imaging and patient admission systems. 3 Unit 42 research also found that 83% of ultrasound, MRI, and CT scanners run on an end-of-life operating system. But ransomware isn’t the only risk.

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Dealing with the Attack Surface Beyond Vulnerabilities

Tenable

Standardized taxonomies have dominated the way cybersecurity professionals describe and talk about systems' security. Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) severity scores have become the primary methods of measuring the security of a system and its attack surface.

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Cybersecurity Canon Candidate Book Review: Blackout: Tomorrow Will Be Too Late

Palo Alto Networks

Cyber Canon Book Review: “ Blackout: Tomorrow Will Be Too Late,” by Marc Elsberg. Book Reviewed by: Sergej Epp, Chief Security Officer, Central Europe. Review: Our modern society will not work without electricity. Bottom Line: I recommend this book for the Cybersecurity Canon Hall of Fame. .

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25 Feb Cloudera Federal Forum in Tysons Corner: Amazing agenda filled with lessons learned and best practices

CTOvision

Chief Information Officer, Defense Information Systems Agency. She also pioneered Deterministic GC which was productized as JRockit Real Time at BEA Systems (bef. Before joining NASA in 2003, Dan worked on highly parallel applications for the Department of Defense (DoD). Senior Director of Technology Solutions, Cloudera.

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Microsoft’s July 2020 Patch Tuesday Addresses 123 CVEs Including Wormable Windows DNS Server RCE (CVE-2020-1350) (SIGRed)

Tenable

CVE-2020-1350 is an RCE vulnerability within the Windows Domain Name System (DNS) server due to an issue in how the DNS server parses requests. Microsoft acknowledges that this vulnerability is “wormable,” or potentially spreadable via malware between affected hosts in a network without any user interaction.

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Cyber Canon Book Review: Zero Day Threat: The Shocking Truth of How Banks and Credit Bureaus Help Cyber Crooks Steal Your Money and Identity

Palo Alto Networks

Cyber Canon Book Review: “Zero Day Threat: The Shocking Truth of How Banks and Credit Bureaus Help Cyber Crooks Steal Your Money and Identity” (2008), by Byron Acohido and Jon Swartz. Book Reviewed by: Jon Oltsik, Enterprise Strategy Group Senior Principal Analyst and Fellow. Who was behind this string of attacks?