Of the 192 respondents who had been hit with ransomware attacks, 83% said they felt they had no choice but to pay the ransom.
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[SANS ISC] Microsoft Patch Tuesday – January 2022 , (Tue, Jan 11th)
Microsoft fixed 126 different CVEs with this month’s update (this includes the Chromium issues patched in Edge). Six of the issues were publicly disclosed, and nine are rated critical. Noteworthy updates: CVE-2022-21907: This is a remote code execution vulnerability in http.sys. http.sys is part of anything in windows processing HTTP requests (e.g. IIS!). But this […]
[TheRecord] New CISA chief announces Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative with private sector
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