Suffolk University is a private research university located near Boston, Massachusetts. The school serves over 7,500 students each year and offers more than 100 undergrad, professional, and graduate programs. A huge number of students submit data for financial aid, tuition, and more, and that data could be at risk at a school that doesn't secure its data well. The school earns more than $118 million in revenue annually.
Traditional IT security models focused on one thing: keeping the bad guys out the network. Anyone inside the network was physically in the corporate office and logged on to a machine set up and managed by the IT team, so they were trusted implicitly. That model no longer works. Today’s world of cloud resources, remote workers and user-owned devices has blurred if not entirely erased the notion of a network perimeter that could be defended.
High-profile companies, government agencies, healthcare companies, and government contractors were all exposed in data breaches this week. Tesla is one of the biggest companies to suffer from a breach this week, but the US Marine Corps, ABB, Apria Healthcare, and Suffolk University were also hit by ransomware gangs and targeted hackers. Get the details about these attacks below and stay up-to-date on any breaches that might impact you or your loved ones.
Network security monitoring tools are a critical component of any IT security toolkit. These tools help protect your network from online threats by looking for weaknesses and potential dangers in your organization's digital properties. But as digital ecosystems have expanded into the cloud, remote locations, and across geographies – the number of monitoring tools has skyrocketed.
On May 31, threat actors were discovered targeting a critical zero day in MOVEit Transfer software resulting in escalated privileges and unauthorized data access. The vulnerability being exploited is an SQL injection and has since been patched. Resources links, including one for the patch, are at the bottom of this post. MOVEit Transfer is a managed file transfer (MFT) solution developed by Ipswitch (a subsidiary of Progress Software).
SIEM and UEBA are complementary solutions that can work together to provide a comprehensive view of network activity and enhance the threat detection and response capabilities of cybersecurity teams. By integrating SIEM and UEBA, organizations can benefit from.
