Cybersecurity company Avast announced that its internal network was hacked via a VPN connection. The attackers compromised an employee’s VPN credentials and had network access for more than four months.
A security firm recently revealed new details about one of the more significant TeamViewer hacks, which happened in 2016, showing that billions of devices may have been affected or vulnerable.
It’s one thing to protect your network from run-of-the-mill cybercriminals. It’s quite another to fend off attacks from state-sponsored hacking consortiums.
All IT developers are well-acquainted with the familiar advice offered by Murphy’s law: “If something can go wrong, it will.” Nothing is more certain than that a code change, update, patch or mass deployment for an existing system always has the potential for error, typically affecting many users. These errors may be minimal or catastrophic, …
