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The time that attackers stay hidden inside an organization’s networks is shifting, putting pressure on defenders and upping the need to detect and respond to threats in real-time.
Cyberattacks have shifted from the usual smash-and-grab type of heists to stealthier campaigns where hackers silently camp out on networks for long periods, stealing anything they can get their hands on. Called attacker dwell time, this is part of an adversarial approach that has become even more popular with hackers when it comes to 2021 ransomware attacks and data breaches.
Consider recent ransomware attacks by cybergangs Ryuk and Maze, where adversaries lurked in the datacenter shadows and within endpoint crevices – collecting counterintelligence, stealing credentials and pushing malware laterally. Only after pilfering all of a company’s digital goods did criminals finally encrypt files and demand a ransom, in what’s be
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After a year of global pandemic, we should not be surprised that 2021 is the year when a horde of 17-year cicadas will descend on us once again.
According to the website EarthSky, billions of Brood X cicadas will emerge in a dozen states, “from New York west to Illinois and south into northern Georgia, including hot spots in Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee, Maryland, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.”
Not to worry. The cicadas will make a lot of noise with their mating calls, but they don’t sting and they’re not harmful. Locusts they are not. And they will go away, and the nitrogen from their bodies will feed the trees they once nibbled on.
Walk right in/Sit right down/Daddy, let your mind roll on.
The 2021 version would be:
Walk right in/Sit right down/Daddy (and Mommy) let your sleeves roll up.
After a winter of discontent and vaccination-appointment disappointment, COVID-19 vaccines are suddenly available in abundance. Vaccination sites are taking walk-ins, mass vaccination sites are shutting down and local efforts are in motion to bring the vaccine to the people if the people can’t come to the vaccine.
The shape of things to come is evident in Massachusetts, where the state will be closing four of seven mega-vaccination clinics in June and shifting its emphasis to the harder-to-reach populations. The plan includes working through 22 regional collaboratives, increasing doses sent to primary-care doctors, and expanding mobile vaccination clinics in hard-hit areas.