In a year where headlines were dominated by the global economic and geopolitical uncertainty around Russia’s war on Ukraine, 2022 saw a threat landscape that was both volatile and fragmented, largely due to the war. As the year drew to an end, ransomware hit a peak, primarily due to the rise in attacks impacting the manufacturing, health care, technology and telecommunications industries.

When Arctic Wolf surveyed over 900 decision makers across the globe, an area of cybersecurity that kept reappearing in responses was cloud security. Last year, cloud adoption rate was at 99% but only 19% of those organizations were implementing cloud security posture management (CSPM) solutions. As cloud-originated breaches increase, it’s no surprise then that cloud concerns are also rising.

Malware refers to any modified script in a software system that aims to cause intentional harm to the victim. The term malware is a portmanteau that blends two words: malicious and software. Let’s take a good look at this bad situation. We’ll review how malware works, alarming stats and trends, signs that you’re likely infected and, most importantly, ways to prevent this malice.

Only those hiding from the news, prospects, and customers can miss the data security and privacy challenges that are occurring. More businesses are relying on data analytics (garnered from data collection) for more and improved service and product offerings. More individuals want data privacy and security. More nations want their citizens protected from corporate tactics that rely on mining and scraping personal data. More customers want tailored experiences that only come through data analytics.

Free and open access is one of the core principles upon which Elastic was originally built and continues to operate. Our products are free to use, and much of our code is accessible in public source code repositories. In recent years, this commitment to transparency and availability has extended to our security offerings.

The fact that scammers haunt Facebook and Twitter is not surprising. Even so, digital criminals don’t stop with just those two platforms. They’re also known to stalk users on LinkedIn where connections carry greater professional gravity. Fortunately, users can stay alert of such activity by familiarizing themselves with the most common types of LinkedIn scams. In no particular order, here are five such ruses that should be on everyone’s radar.

When it comes to acronyms, Technology and Cybersecurity often rival various branches of government. Technology acronyms are usually somewhat bland, amounting to little more than the arcane argot of the profession, such as SOC, SIEM, and DNS.

I was inspired to write this after reading a post from Thomas Depierre on Mastodon. The post touched on something that’s been troubling me recently. When it comes to software security, we spend a lot of time talking about the software supply chain and related concepts, such as the software bill of materials (SBOM). This metaphor comes from an industrial lexicon. People who are used to talking about economies and how manufacturing works are familiar with the idea of supply chain.

T-Mobile has once again fallen victim to a massive new cybersecurity breach, discovered on Jan. 5. The company has a history of hacks from recent years, for which it was fined hundreds of millions of dollars. Using weak API security, the attack caused the exposure of the personal data of more than 37 million customer accounts, which was apparently first accessed on or around Nov. 25. The stolen records include addresses, phone numbers and dates of birth.