Apple & Microsoft Patch Tuesday, July 2023 Edition

Microsoft Corp. today released software updates to quash 130 security bugs in its Windows operating systems and related software, including at least five flaws that are already seeing active exploitation. Meanwhile, Apple customers have their own zero-day woes again this month: On Monday, Apple issued (and then quickly pulled) an emergency update to fix a zero-day vulnerability that is being exploited on MacOS and iOS devices.

July 12, 2023
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Refined methodologies of ransomware attacks

Adversaries were able to encrypt data in 76% of the ransomware attacks that were conducted against surveyed organizations, according to Sophos. The survey also shows that when organizations paid a ransom to get their data decrypted, they ended up addit…

May 11, 2023
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Attackers are logging in instead of breaking in

Cyberattackers leveraged more than 500 unique tools and tactics in 2022, according to Sophos. The data, analyzed from more than 150 Sophos Incident Response (IR) cases, identified more than 500 unique tools and techniques, including 118 “Living off the…

April 25, 2023
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Sophos patches three issues in the Sophos Web Security appliance, one of them rated as critical

Sophos addressed three vulnerabilities in Sophos Web Appliance, including a critical flaw that can lead to code execution. Cybersecurity vendor Sophos addressed three vulnerabilities in Sophos Web Appliance, including a critical flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-1671 (CVSS score of 9.8), that can lead to code execution. The CVE-2023-1671 flaw is a pre-auth command injection issue that […]

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April 10, 2023
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Sophos XGS vs Fortinet FortiGate: Top NGFWs Compared

Sophos and Fortinet both appear on our list of the top next-generation firewalls (NGFWs), and while both offer very good security at their price points, they serve very different markets. What follows is a look at the key features and strengths and weaknesses of each solution. Which one is best for you will depend on […]

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March 24, 2023
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