Author: Robert Timlick

Powin founder Joseph Lu set to open QPO Energy, a joint venture with Yulon Group.

Less than three months after the Federal Trade Commission banned noncompetes, a federal judge backed a legal challenge to them.

The 100,000-square-foot J.K. Gill Building on Southwest Fifth Avenue went into foreclosure in 2023.

A now-patched security flaw in Veeam Backup & Replication software is being exploited by a nascent ransomware operation known as EstateRansomware.
Singapore-headquartered Group-IB, which discovered the threat actor in early April 2024, said the modus operandi involved the exploitation of CVE-2023-27532 (CVSS score: 7.5) to carry out the malicious activities.
Initial access to the target

The Problem
The “2024 Attack Intelligence Report” from the staff at Rapid7 [1] is a well-researched, well-written report that is worthy of careful study. Some key takeaways are: 

53% of the over 30 new vulnerabilities that were widely exploited in 2023 and at the start of 2024 were zero-days.
More mass compromise events arose from zero-day vulnerabilities than from n-day vulnerabilities.

Microsoft has released patches to address a total of 143 security flaws as part of its monthly security updates, two of which have come under active exploitation in the wild.
Five out of the 143 flaws are rated Critical, 136 are rated Important, and four are rated Moderate in severity. The fixes are in addition to 33 vulnerabilities that have been addressed in the Chromium-based Edge browser

It’s the age of identity security. The explosion of driven ransomware attacks has made CISOs and security teams realize that identity protection lags 20 years behind their endpoints and networks. This realization is mainly due to the transformation of lateral movement from fine art, found in APT and top cybercrime groups only, to a commodity skill used in almost every ransomware attack. The

Google on Wednesday announced that it’s making available passkeys for high-risk users to enroll in its Advanced Protection Program (APP).
“Users traditionally needed a physical security key for APP — now they can choose a passkey to secure their account,” Shuvo Chatterjee, product lead of APP, said.
Passkeys are considered a more secure and phishing-resistant alternative to passwords. Based on

Clinton McGarvin writes that