I’ve noted an increase in phone calls coming to my cell phone and my home phone lately. Normally I either don’t answer or punt the calls to voice mail as I suspected that these calls are scam calls. Besides, anyone who wanted to talk to me would leave a voice mail for me. But what happens almost 100% of the time is that the caller doesn’t leave a message. That suggests to me that this view of these being scam calls is likely accurate. But recently, I decided to answer the call to see what the deal was. The call I got was from a “John Wilson” calling on behalf of Rogers. I put the name in quote ..read more

Today, Ferrari and HP Inc. announced a historic, multi-year title partnership. Connecting two of the world’s most iconic companies, the partnership features a shared commitment to advance sustainable innovation and accelerate purposeful technology across the Scuderia Ferrari Formula 1 team, the Scuderia Ferrari Esports team, and the Scuderia Ferrari Driver Academy. In addition, the HP logo will make its debut on the Maranello F1 cars ahead of Miami Grand Prix scheduled for May 3-5, when the team will start competing as Scuderia Ferrari HP. The Scuderia Ferrari Esports ..read more

Red Canary recently unveiled its sixth annual Threat Detection Report, examining the trends, threats, and adversary techniques impacting organizations – a useful guide for channel partners supporting customers with their security strategies in the year ahead. The report tracks MITRE ATT&CK® techniques that adversaries abuse most frequently throughout the year, with two new and notable entries soaring to the top 10 in 2023: Email Forwarding Rule and Cloud Accounts. Red Canary’s latest report provides in-depth analysis of nearly 60,000 threats detected with more than 216 petabytes of telemet ..read more

Aropha, a leading laboratory focused on advancing biodegradable material discovery and testing through lab automation and AI predictive modeling, today announced that it has raised $1 million in a Series Seed funding round. The round was led by Comeback Capital, with participation from Lightbank and Right Side Capital Management (RSCM). Aropha works directly with companies to provide rapid biodegradation testing and implement AI screening into their product development processes. The funding will be used to expand Aropha’s current laboratory operations, increase industry awareness, and fund th ..read more

Today’s attackers are wiser to current cybersecurity defenses and therefore more sophisticated in their attacks. To this end, global cybersecurity software and services provider Fortra recently enhanced its Threat Intelligence offerings, adding high-fidelity threat intelligence with timely, curated data to level the playing field and provide cybersecurity analysts the edge needed to stay a step ahead of modern threat actors. Fortra’s expanded Threat Intelligence services include: Dark Web Compromised Credentials Monitoring – widens visibility into stolen cre ..read more

Not that I am surprised by this, The Wall Street Journal has just released data that the Change Healthcare attackers lurked in the network nine days ahead of them getting pwned: The attackers, who represented themselves as the ALPHV ransomware gang or one of its affiliates, gained entry into Change’s network on Feb. 12, a person familiar with the cyber investigation said. They used compromised credentials on an application that allows staff to remotely access systems, the person said. Multifactor authentication protocols are typically used to guard against such breaches, including the use of t ..read more

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