Protecting Your Digital Future

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) have issued a joint advisory, warning that the Medusa ransomware operation has impacted over 300 victims across critical infrastructure sectors. Affected industries include healthcare, education, legal, insurance, technology and manufacturing. A Growing Threat […]

What is the Cactus ransomware? Cactus is a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group that encrypts victim’s data and demands a ransom for a decryption key. Hundreds of organisations have found themselves the victim of Cactus since it was first discovered in March 2023, with their stolen data published on the dark web as an “incentive” to give […]

Sophos Firewall OS v21 MR1 brings several scalability, resiliency, and stability enhancements to your Sophos Firewall. What’s new SSL VPN – Now supports key sizes of 3072 or 4096 bits for the Diffie-Hellman key exchange to enhance secure communication and compliance requirements. Enhanced UDP-based SSLVPN tunnel resiliency has also been added using a granular dead […]

What is it? The Tripwire Enterprise Critical Change Audit rules provide customers with the ability to monitor for critical events that could have a significant impact on a system. Monitoring for critical events can help administrators identify malicious and/or unexpected changes within their environment. Changes To CCA Additional rules were added to the Critical Change […]

At 49, Branden Spikes isn’t just one of the oldest technologists who has been involved in Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). As the current director of information technology at X/Twitter and an early hire at PayPal, Zip2, Tesla and SpaceX, Spikes is also among Musk’s most loyal employees. Here’s a closer look at […]

A prolonged cyber intrusion by the Volt Typhoon threat group has exposed vulnerabilities in the US electric grid. Cybersecurity analysts at Dragos discovered that Volt Typhoon, an advanced persistent threat group linked to China, had maintained unauthorized access to the operational technology (OT) network of Littleton Electric Light and Water Departments (LELWD), a small public power […]

At 49, Branden Spikes isn’t just one of the oldest technologists who has been involved in Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). As the current director of information technology at X/Twitter and an early hire at PayPal, Zip2, Tesla and SpaceX, Spikes is also among Musk’s most loyal employees. Here’s a closer look at […]

Can you imagine a life without your smartphone? For most of us, this is a difficult task, and some younger readers will have never lived in a world without smartphones. The countless functionalities of modern mobile devices – surfing the web, booking appointments, setting up reminders, sharing files, instant messaging, video calling, mobile banking, and more […]

Juggling daily demands can make it difficult to keep up with the renewal dates on your Sophos subscriptions. To help you avoid any gaps in your protection, we are improving expiration alerts in Sophos Central so you can enjoy seamless protection against the latest threats. What to expect? 30 days before your renewal date we […]

Cyber insurance claim values are an effective way to quantify the impact of cyberattacks on organizations. A higher claim value indicates that the victim experienced considerable financial and operational consequences from the attack, while a low claim value reflects limited disruption.  Reducing the value of cyber insurance claims is to everyone’s advantage. For clients, lower […]