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A. Today’s MSSP Alerts
1. Ransomware Insights: Sophos has published a multi-part research series on the realities of ransomware. 2. Phishing Mitigation and Email Security: Mimecast has announced SAFE Phish, which allows security teams to create training exercises using real-life, de-weaponized Phishing campaigns that target their organizations and employees. Training results can be integrated into the Mimecast SAFE Score dashboard, which is designed to aggregate data to gauge a company’s security posture.3. VPN Passwords Leaked: A hacker has published a list of plaintext usernames and passwords, along with IP addresses for more than 900 Pulse Secure VPN enterprise servers, ZDNet reports. a Scott Gordon, chief marketing officer at Pulse Secure, offered this statement:“Like other vendors, Pulse Secure takes vulnerabilities seriously and continues to apply industry best practices to expedite work with threat researchers and protect our customers. We urge all our customers deploy the security patch fix, available since April 2019, to protect themselves from threat actors and potential attacks. We have already contacted customers that have yet to apply the patch fix multiple times using contact information available to us, and we will continue to do so until the deploy the patch to all their systems. For more information, please visit SA44101."
B. Upcoming Cybersecurity Conferences
- Black Hat USA 2020 (August 1-6, Virtual Conference)
- Ingram Micro Security Solutions Summit 2020 (August 12-13, Virtual Conference)
- Exabeam Spotlight20 (November 9-11, Virtual Conference)
- Palo Alto Networks Ignite20 (November 9-12, Las Vegas)
- RSA Conference 2021 (May 17-21, San Francisco)
- Bonus: MSSP Alert’s complete event calendar