Week in review: Zoom security, Marriott breach, MS SQL servers under attack

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Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles and podcasts:

Marriott International 2020 data breach: 5.2 million customers affected
Marriott International has suffered a new data breach in mid-January 2020, which affected approximately 5.2 million guests.

Should you hire a specialized cybersecurity recruiter?
Finding skilled cybersecurity professionals to fill organizations’ increasing needs is becoming more difficult by the day due to the wide (and widening) cybersecurity workforce skills gap. So, how can organizations make the hiring process less painful and more fruitful?

Millions of routers running OpenWRT vulnerable to attack
A vulnerability (CVE-2020-7982) discovered in the package manager of the OpenWRT open source operating system could allow attackers to compromise the embedded and networking devices running it.

Are your MS SQL servers part of a cryptomining botnet? Check now!
For the last two years or so, attackers have been infecting and reinfecting poorly secured MS SQL servers, booting other criminals’ malware from them and exploiting their compute power to mine Vollar and Monero cryptocurrency.

RDP and VPN use soars,…

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