Checklist: Don’t Fall Victim to These Common Incident Response Mistakes

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
Microsoft releases 63 security fixes, including patches for two zero-day flaws, one of which is under active exploit, and five critical RCE vulnerabilities  —  Today is Microsoft’s September 2022 Patch Tuesday, and with it comes fixes for an actively exploited Windows vulnerability and a total of 63 flaws.

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
Microsoft releases 68 security fixes, including patches for six actively exploited Windows zero-day flaws and 11 vulnerabilities classified as Critical  —  Today is Microsoft’s November 2022 Patch Tuesday, and with it comes fixes for six actively exploited Windows vulnerabilities and a total of 68 flaws.

CDW and Samsung are working together with First Tee — Greater Detroit, a youth organization, to show young players the connection between technology and golf. While the organization’s primary focus is to help youth participants build character, they are also learning that technology can improve their understanding of the game.
“First Tee — Greater Detroit is a youth development organization that uses golf to teach kids important life lessons and traits, such as hard work, perseverance, self-confidence, respect,” says Todd Krieger, interim CEO, First Tee — Greater Detroit. “These things are…

CDW and Samsung are working together with First Tee — Greater Detroit, a youth organization, to show young players the connection between technology and golf. While the organization’s primary focus is to help youth participants build character, they are also learning that technology can improve their understanding of the game.
“First Tee — Greater Detroit is a youth development organization that uses golf to teach kids important life lessons and traits, such as hard work, perseverance, self-confidence, respect,” says Todd Krieger, interim CEO, First Tee — Greater Detroit. “These things are…

Bloomberg:
FTX’s crash highlights flaws like Sequoia’s lack of access to Alameda’s balance sheet despite its due diligence and the investors failing to demand a board seat  —  Among the last people to realize that the cryptocurrency exchange FTX was a financial time bomb were the company’s own investors.

Ransomware, phishing, distributed denial of service and other cyber breaches and attacks are becoming more common in K–12 schools. With threat vectors changing every day, school IT leaders say incident response is more critical than ever.
EdTech recently hosted a mini-roundtable with three IT experts in K–12 cybersecurity who shared how schools of all sizes can minimize their risk profiles and mount a powerful response in the event of an attack.
Check out our Cybersecurity Awareness Month content on incident response for more insights.