WEEKLY CYBERSECURITY NEWSLETTER NO: 240

#WeeklyCybersecurityTip: You are a target to hackers. Don’t ever say “It won’t happen to ME.”

Nov 7, 2022 6:17 am

1- Regulating DAOs

In August, the US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned the cryptocurrency platform Tornado Cash, a virtual currency “mixer” designed to make it harder to trace cryptocurrency transactions—and a worldwide favorite money-laundering platform. Americans are now forbidden from us…

2- Patch Tuesday in brief – one 0-day fixed, but no patches for Exchange!

Two weeks ago we reported on two zero-days in Microsoft Exchange that had been reported to Microsoft three weeks before that by a Vietnamese company that claimed to have stumbled across the bugs on an incident response engagement on a customer’s network. (You may need to read that twice.) As you pro…

3- GUEST ESSAY: Sure steps to achieve a robust employee cybersecurity awareness training regimen

Employee security awareness is the most important defense against data breaches. Related: Leveraging security standards to protect your company It involves regularly changing passwords and inventorying sensitive data. Cybercriminals view employees as a path of least resistance. As such, you should l…

4- GUEST ESSAY: A roadmap to achieve a better balance of network security and performance

Here’s a frustrating reality about securing an enterprise network: the more closely you inspect network traffic, the more it deteriorates the user experience. Related: Taking a risk-assessment approach to vulnerabilities Slow down application performance a little, and you’ve got frustrated users. Sl…