CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

As most of the aged community, i.e. those above 65 are using desktop or laptops, hackers are seeing them as easy prey to spread ransomware, bank related customer support scams and Trojans and botnets through video calling apps. Security researchers from Avast Threat Labs found that it’s not only the elders who are being targeted.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 9, 2021

A breakdown of how many people answered each question correctly showed that they had the most knowledge of laptop security. Considering how many businesses receive documents with sensitive information, that could be a worthwhile topic to cover in future training sessions. It’s best to teach people how to encrypt their files and why.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 27, 2022

The training covers a wide range of topics from the basics of SAP architecture and how to identify components to advance exploitation to post-exploitation scenarios and how to protect systems against these threats. The training is highly practical, which means that students will spend most of the session doing hands-on exercises.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

As enterprises continue to fall victim to increasingly complex attacks, there’s one topic that cybersecurity professionals and vendors can agree on: the importance of Zero Trust. The second is the endpoint – protecting the workstations, servers, laptops, cloud instances, network devices, etc. –

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Hacker Combat

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Spaces allow teams to collaborate in real-time across topics and projects. These updates include improved search, aligned topic strapping, and enhanced admin and security features like content moderation tools. . Not long ago, Google introduced a new Workspace feature identified as Spaces, currently available for all Google users.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 2, 2023

Child data is a prominent topic for Google. You can pull up a list of watched videos through the “Watch it Again” option at the top of the home screen on a tablet, or navigating to the option on desktop or laptop by selecting the child’s profile picture to view the relevant videos. Get a free business trial below.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Poor computer hygiene habits at home often result in infected laptops, tablets, or USB drives brought into the workplace. Keeping unprotected sensitive data on laptops and mobiles devices, especially company secrets and customer information, and then not guarding those devices. Bringing bugs to work. Train them.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Positive Technologies while analyzing Intel Management Engine (ME) discovered that Apple did not disable Intel Manufacturing Mode in its laptops. Experts from security firm Positive Technologies while analyzing Intel Management Engine (ME) discovered that Apple forgot did not lock it in laptops. ” concludes the experts.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

“First, it shows that UEFI rootkits are a real threat, and not merely an attractive conference topic. LoJack for laptops is a security software designed to catch computer thieves, but it could be theoretically abused to spy on legitimate owners of the device. ” reads the analysis published by ESET.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Whether you’re looking for a smartphone, a laptop, a gaming device or something else, or even just signing up for an account online, you want to make sure your kids are protected. Secure their laptop to an object. Talking about any or all of these topics doesn’t just happen once. Password protect the device.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 6, 2020

Disconnecting from your mobile device, laptop or tablet can be as good as a holiday. In my family, we regularly ‘unplug’ and use the opportunity to discuss cyber awareness and topics such as the risks to our family information, how we can improve personal safety, and what are we doing to prevent identify theft.

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Notice Bored

APRIL 20, 2022

if a consultant fell sick or a laptop was lost or stolen). Not being a specialist in all the topic areas which professional services address (e.g. Disclosed or used inappropriately (e.g. if confidential business or personal information was leaked to and exploited by third parties). Withheld or unavailable for some reason (e.g.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

In the remote work environment we are living in, the first thing many of us do each day is login to a laptop or corporate account. You can see examples in our previous article on the topic. Here are the worst food related passwords, according to the research: • chocolate • cookie • pepper • cheese • peanut.

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NopSec

MAY 17, 2019

Read our 2018 State of Vulnerability Report for a more in depth study on the topic. A critical severity java update may be necessary for the CEO’s laptop, but not so necessary for the intern’s old laptop that will be re-imaged soon anyway.

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Anton on Security

DECEMBER 15, 2022

A: This topic comes up a lot and I would say that there are companies that treat their SOC as only the team watching the screens while they have the more engineering components outside of the SOC. Q: In the cloud and on-premises mixed environment, do you think installing the user behavior analysis agent on the laptop makes sense?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Putting in place different learning techniques and providing online access to essential topics employees need to understand – will be mission-critical to ensuring employees have a holistic view of cybersecurity to protect the business.

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Notice Bored

OCTOBER 19, 2021

when I read the recommendation for a topic-specific policy on backup. We don't always take the trouble to consult with colleagues, research the topic, explore the risks and controls, and think both broadly and deeply about the subject area - the topic of the policy. Why do data need to be backed up? What's the purpose?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 19, 2023

This can occur due to data leakage through faulty apps or systems, by laptops or portable storage devices being lost, by malicious actors breaking through security defenses, by social engineering attacks, or by data being intercepted in man-in-the-middle attacks. In this blog, we’ll tackle encrypting AWS in transit and at rest.

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Herjavec Group

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Fast forward to now: cybersecurity is a consistent topic amongst the C-Suite and CSAM is a must-mention, internationally recognized campaign. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in October 2004. Not long ago CSAM was a niche concept that only the security team knew about. The world needs to cyber protect 300 billion passwords this year.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 19, 2018

Not to say that there weren’t sessions on these important topics—but these hot security topics were weaved into more general best practices sessions. That buzz word is a very big deal in the industry now and was a hot topic throughout the event as well. I know you’re thinking, what about “GDPR”? Back to basics.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 24, 2023

The Chinese owned TikTok app has been under a lot of scrutiny, and a few US states have officially banned TikTok from state-owned or state-leased smartphones, laptops, and other internet-enabled devices. Spying Scraping data by and for advertisers is not the only concern about social media.

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Cisco Security

MARCH 16, 2021

I’ve linked to couple of excellent short articles on this topic at the end of this blog. Cisco Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) for Endpoints operates on the laptop or mobile device, where files and payloads are created and stored. A better experience and improved privacy: QUIC and HTTP/3.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2022

Endpoints are the devices that connect to your networks, such as laptops, smartphones, and printers. Cloud security is an important and complex topic, and there are considerations beyond the scope of this article. This way, you only have to remember one master password to access all of your other passwords. Secure your endpoints.

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IT Security Guru

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Armis’ own white paper on the topic mentions these for starters: July 2019: URGENT/11 affects billions of industrial and medical devices. Norton cites “Infected laptops belonging to maintenance engineers, USB sticks, an unauthorised wireless device, or even a malicious insider.”. What are the top routes to infection from IT to OT?

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IT Security Guru

MARCH 25, 2021

I won’t review those here because they are covered well in this article: [link] But I will say that this topic brings to mind the Stephen Covey quote, “Seek first to understand, then to be understood.”. I’m also the guy who returned a laptop without an RMA: it got lost on the return trip, so we never got our money back.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 14, 2021

The ads usually offer cameras, game consoles, laptops, smartphones, and similar items for sale at deliberately low prices. The hierarchy of the scammer groups represents a pyramid, with the topic starters on top. The topic starters’ share is about 20-30 percent of the stolen sum.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 13, 2022

I wake up, and I open my laptop, and I type code—all the things that I like to do. Security is a difficult topic, because it's hard to explicitly say what it means for something to be secure. Before that, I spent 15 years or so developing mission-critical software for military radars and avionics. And I walk my dogs in between.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Privilege Misuse: disgruntled employee e.g. posts sensitive data publically Lost and Stolen Assets: laptop or phone left in cafe or pickpocketed Denial of Service: DDoS and DoS based attacks Everything Else: things like ATM card skimmers What influences our perception of successful cybersecurity attack causes?

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Herjavec Group

MARCH 1, 2021

Make sure to subscribe below and feel free to reach out here with the topics and questions you’d like to see covered! Almost overnight, enterprises sent employees home, supported by monitors, laptops, desktops, printers, and phones which were connected to unknown, or unsecured personal environments.

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Herjavec Group

MARCH 1, 2021

Make sure to subscribe below and feel free to reach out here with the topics and questions you’d like to see covered! Almost overnight, enterprises sent employees home, supported by monitors, laptops, desktops, printers, and phones to be connected to unsecured personal environments.

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SecureList

MARCH 13, 2024

To get further insights into the broader topic of digital stalking, Kaspersky commissioned Arlington Research to conduct 21,000 online interviews to get insights into digital stalking and stalkerware worldwide. It also aimed at raising general public awareness on this topic.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 13, 2022

If the news media and the internet are leading us astray, maybe we can pinpoint what those influences are and systematically reduce our bias on those topics. Academic publications aligned most closely with DBIR in terms of coverage proportion across topics in 2020 but not so much in 2021. Do those perceptions reflect reality?

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

This is the “new” motto of those youngsters-wannabe-hackers: botnet providers, sellers, coders, “boaters” driving in the night with the laptop ever connected aside. About the Author: Odisseus – Independent Security Researcher involved in Italy and worldwide in topics related to hacking, penetration testing and development.

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Joseph Steinberg

JANUARY 22, 2024

As the publisher of the original English version of Hacking for Dummies explained when the seventh edition of the book was released in 2022: Your smartphone, laptop, and desktop computer are more important to your life and business than ever before.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

If the news media and the internet are leading us astray, maybe we can pinpoint what those influences are and systematically reduce our bias on those topics. A curious discrepancy is that The Guardian covered relatively little (1%) on the topic of denial of service attacks compared to the New York Times (12%).

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

As high-profile data breaches, such as Equifax , continue to dominate headlines, the topic of cybersecurity –or lack thereof–has commanded greater attention. The word ‘cybersecurity’ has become the media’s latest buzzword…and for good reason.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Privilege Misuse: disgruntled employee e.g. posts sensitive data publicly Lost and Stolen Assets: laptop or phone left in cafe or pickpocketed Denial of Service: DDoS and DoS based attacks Everything Else: things like ATM card skimmers What influences our perception of successful cybersecurity attack causes?

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