Servers Left Running Without Security Updates Can be Your Organization’s Weakest Link
Servers Left Running Without Security Updates Can be Your Organization’s Weakest Link The revelation that the server used by attackers as a passageway in Singapore’s biggest cyberattack hadn’t been updated for more than a year shows how a failure to update a server can be your organization’s weakest link. The circumstances surrounding the failure to update the server used by attackers in ultimately reaching Singapore Health Services (SingHealth)'s critical system were revealed during the recent hearing conducted by the Committee of Inquiry (COI), the body tasked to investigate Singapore’s biggest cyberattack, the SingHealth cyberattack. Last July 20, Singapore’s Ministry of Communications and Information and Ministry of Health issued a joint statementdisclosing that attackers stole non-medical related personally identifiable information of more than 1.5 million patients who visited SingHealth’s outpatient clinics…