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GUEST ESSAY: Recalibrating critical infrastructure security in the wake of evolving threats

The Last Watchdog

Unitronics systems are exposed to the Internet and a single intrusion caused a ripple effect felt across organizations in multiple states. A data diode facilitates a uni-directional stream of information from one device to another, preventing bi-directional data flow.

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RSAC insights: Concentric AI directs Google’s search techniques towards locking down data sprawl

The Last Watchdog

In order to extract value from the Internet, data sprawl first must get reined in. Solving data sprawl has now become a focal point of cybersecurity. Today sensitive information, especially unstructured data , routinely gets dispersed across multiple cloud-connected platforms. This has always been the case.

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RSAC insights: Malware is now spreading via weaponized files circulating in data lakes, file shares

The Last Watchdog

“The trend that we’re seeing is that more than 30 percent of the content flowing into data lakes is from untrusted sources,” he says. “It’s It’s documents, PDFs, CSV files, Excel files, images, lots of unstructured data; we track 150 different file types. This is the dark side of digital transformation.

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Publicly available Evil_MinIO exploit used in attacks on MinIO Storage Systems

Security Affairs

Object Storage is a data storage architecture for storing unstructured data into units called “objects” and storing them in a structurally flat data environment. The leading providers of such services are AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. .”

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How Secure Is Cloud Storage? Features, Risks, & Protection

eSecurity Planet

Cloud storage is a cloud computing model that allows data storage on remote servers operated by a service provider, accessible via internet connections. Local storage prioritizes direct access, potential cost savings, and reduced reliance on the internet, yet lacks the scalability and security of the cloud.

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Researcher’s audacious hack demonstrates new type of supply-chain attack

Malwarebytes

They will look for dependencies locally, on the computer where a project resides, and they will check the package manager’s public, Internet-accessible, directory. All of these package managers will accept dependencies listed as names and try to resolve what the developer meant. Version confusion.

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How Can You Protect Critical Infrastructure from Ransomware Attacks

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The second ransom payment to get cybercriminals to hand over the decryption key, for the victim to gain back access to their data. Do not publish unprotected RDP access points on the internet. This is a form of double extortion. Why does Ransomware Matter? Use RDP Gateways. To learn more: click here.