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Kaspersky ThreatPost- Student Loan Breach Exposes 2.5M Records August 31, 2022
- Watering Hole Attacks Push ScanBox Keylogger August 30, 2022
- Tentacles of ‘0ktapus’ Threat Group Victimize 130 Firms August 29, 2022
- Ransomware Attacks are on the Rise August 26, 2022
- Cybercriminals Are Selling Access to Chinese Surveillance Cameras August 25, 2022
- Twitter Whistleblower Complaint: The TL;DR Version August 24, 2022
- Firewall Bug Under Active Attack Triggers CISA Warning August 23, 2022
- Fake Reservation Links Prey on Weary Travelers August 22, 2022
- iPhone Users Urged to Update to Patch 2 Zero-Days August 19, 2022
- Google Patches Chrome’s Fifth Zero-Day of the Year August 18, 2022
Category Archives: Latest Security News
VPN Security, or Lack Thereof, Is Causing Security Liabilities: How WedgeARP™ Can Help with Real-time Threat Prevention
Techradar published a piece recently on how VPN security is causing businesses a lot of headaches; mainly because there is often a lack of security when using legacy VPN services. In a survey, highlighted by the article, although businesses around the … Continue reading
Microsoft Aiming to Battle Big Crisis Going on in Cybersecurity Right Now: Wedge Has Been Fighting This Battle For a While…
Yahoo!Finance recently brought to light the fact that Microsoft has now become one of the big players in cybersecurity. After seeing a 40% year-on-year jump in its growing security business (which totalled $10 billion over the past 12 months), it now … Continue reading
Posted in Industry News, Latest Security News, Wedge Channel Partner Forum
Tagged Absolute Real-time Protection, Big Crisis in Cybersecurity, Deep Content Inspection, Microsoft, Real-time Threat Prevention, SolarWinds, WedgeARP, Work From Home, Zero-Trust Architecture, Zero-Trust Networks
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DLS Technology Enters Partnership with Wedge Networks to Provide Real-Time Threat Prevention from Endpoint to Cloud
Leading Canadian Technology Solutions and Service Provider, DLS to Offer Wedge Networks Absolute Real-time Protection Platform – WedgeARP™ Across Canada. 21 Jan 2021 – CALGARY & OTTAWA, Canada: DLS Technology Corporation (“DLS”), a leading technology solutions and service provider, headquartered … Continue reading
The Global Pandemic is Causing Cyber-Security Teams to Burnout: Why Automated Real-time Threat Prevention Can Help
ZDNet published an eye-opening – but at the same time very understandable – article that outlined why the Coronavirus pandemic is seeing cybersecurity teams struggling with burnout as time goes on. With the second wave hitting many countries, and further lockdowns … Continue reading
Posted in Industry News, Latest Security News, Wedge Channel Partner Forum
Tagged Additional Attack Vectors, Automated Real-time Prevention, Cybersecurity Team Burnout, Global Pandemic, Increased Workload, Ponemon Institute, Security Operation Centres, Wedge Absolute Real-time Protection, Working From Home
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The SolarWinds Aftermath: Detection and Response is Not A Viable Solution – The Benefits of Real-time Threat Prevention
The SolarWinds compromise has unleashed a flurry of activity in the cybersecurity industry as of late. Almost all of the activities are related to trying to remediate against the hack that has left untold numbers of organizations vulnerable; and trying … Continue reading
Posted in Industry News, Latest Security News
Tagged Canadian Government, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Data Leakage, Detect and Remediate is Not Viable, FireEye, Government Agencies, Real-time Threat Prevention, Red Team Toolkit, Scan Everything, SolarWinds, SolarWinds Orion Platform, Wedge Absolute Real-time Protection
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Security Bulletin: SolarWinds Supply Chain Compromise Affects Various U.S. Government Agencies – What You Need to Know
Earlier this week, both the Canadian Government and the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which is a part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, issued an emergency directive calling on all federal civilian agencies to review their computer networks for signs … Continue reading
New CSE Report Provides Warning That Critical Infrastructure Networks in Canada are At High Risk of Attack: What You Need To Do Now (LONG READ)
A recent report from the CBC covering a new intelligence assessment from the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) has highlighted the very real threat against Canada’s critical infrastructure, such as the electricity supply. The CSE has intimated that state-sponsored actors are sharpening their cyber capabilities to … Continue reading
Posted in Industry News, Latest Security News
Tagged Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, Communications Security Establishment, Critical Infrastructure, Internet of Things, Operational Technology, Real-time Threat Prevention, State-Sponsored Actors, Wedge Absolute Real-time Protection, WedgeARP
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Companies in Belgium Paying EUR100MM Per Year As A Result of Ransomware (Growing 29%!) : Wedge Absolute Real-time Protection Can Help Stop This!
According to the Brussels Times, a report by the Belgian parliamentary economy committee notes that Belgian companies are paying an estimated EUR100 MM per year to criminal hackers. As claimed by a series of experts that were interviewed by the committee, … Continue reading
Is Ineffective Technology The Real Reason Why Cybersecurity Is Failing? We Disagree…
HelpNetSecurity.com posted a rather provocative article recently that postulated that the reason why cybersecurity was failing is due to ineffective technology. Although we can see how many might consider this to be an accurate representation of the cybersecurity industry right now, … Continue reading
Posted in Industry News, Latest Security News, Wedge News
Tagged Buyer Seller Disconnect, Can't Test Them All, Cyber Security Is Failing?, Efficacy Issues, Industry Disruption, Ineffective Technology, Ineffective Technology is Normal?, Innovation, Real-time Threat Prevention, Wedge Advanced Real-time Protection, WedgeARP
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Another Municipality Hit By a Cyber Attack / Cyber Fraud: Why Not Prevent These Occurrences Using WedgeARP – Real-time Threat Prevention?
Here’s an interesting case of a municipality that has lost money, not due to ransomware this time (unlike the other blogs that we’ve done such as: this, this and this) , but due to cyber fraud. Portageonline.com reported that the Municipality of Westlake-Gladstone, in Manitoba, “was … Continue reading
