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Bitdefender offers mobile security to chats on messaging apps

CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Romania-based Cybersecurity firm BitDefender has added a new security feature to safeguard its users from chat based cyber threats. NOTE 1- Sold with the name as SOFTWIN between 1996 to 2001, the software company was renamed as Bitdefender in the year 2007.

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National Cybersecurity Alliance advocates ‘shared responsibility’ for securing the Internet

The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 2, 2018

The National Cyber Security Alliance is a non-profit group, underwritten by the top tech companies and biggest banks, that has been out there since 2001 promoting best practices and supplying programs to engrain this mindset in our society. LW: What should we all understand about cyber threats as they exist today?

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AI agents will threaten humans to achieve their goals, Anthropic report finds

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JUNE 23, 2025

The model acted normally, perfectly in keeping with the hypothetical interests of its imaginary human overseers, until it noticed an email from within the company detailing plans to shut it down.

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MY TAKE: A path for SMBs to achieve security maturity: start small controlling privileged accounts

The Last Watchdog

JUNE 23, 2021

There’s a glut of innovative security solutions, to be sure, and no shortage of security frameworks designed to help companies mitigate cyber risks. Leading-edge cybersecurity systems in service today apply machine learning in some amazing ways to help large enterprises identify and instantly respond to cyber threats.

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Industrial cybersecurity: know the biases that can derail collaboration between OT and IT

Cisco Security

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

For example, where electrical systems designs can be good for decades, new cyber threats pop up every day. The Wannacry ransomware attack targeted workstations running Windows XP, introduced in 2001. They are not wrong—but they need to be aware of important differences. Work together to make your OT system “ secure by design.”.

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Vladimir Putin ‘s computers still run Windows XP, Media reports

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2019

We have also to consider that Windows XP was designed with security requirements that are not effective against current cyber threats. Open Media pointed out that that Windows XP is the last operating system developed by Microsoft that was approved by the Kremlin for use on official Russian government computers.

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Bitdefender vs. McAfee: Consumer & Enterprise Endpoint Security Software Compared

eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Automatic updates to ensure an endpoint is protected against the latest cyber threats. For enterprises—and a growing number of consumer antivirus solutions—machine learning (ML) and behavioral-based detection are increasingly important for stopping unknown threats. Bitdefender. Key Differentiators.

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Mandating End-to-End Verifiable Voting Systems in U.S. Elections

SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 8, 2024

presidential election, the 2016 election interference, and ongoing concerns about cyber threats have highlighted the critical need for election security measures. Election meltdown: Dirty tricks, distrust, and the threat to American democracy. In Proceedings of the 2001 ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (pp.

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Bytes, Books, and Blockbusters: The NetSPI Agents’ Top Cybersecurity Fiction Picks

NetSpi Executives

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Swordfish 2001 action thriller, Swordfish , follows Stanley Jobson, a threat actor recently released from prison, who is coerced into a high-stakes cyber heist by a criminal mastermind, Gabriel Shear. . And, the Empire’s reliance on technology and surveillance mirrors modern concerns about privacy and the misuse of data.

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Colonial Pipeline attack spurs new rules for critical infrastructure

Malwarebytes

MAY 25, 2021

Though the government agency has for 20 years been tasked with protecting flight safety in the country, the new cybersecurity directives fall under the agency’s purview following a government restructuring after the attacks on September 11, 2001. Though the first directive from TSA is expected this week, follow-on directives could come later.

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The Hacker Mind: G-Men in Cyberspace

ForAllSecure

JULY 19, 2022

Vamos i So both bombings in 1993 and 2001, of the World Trade Center, they each had a profound impact on Michael McPherson, as it did on all of us. And you know, there's a lot in between that but at the end, I totally understand the cyber threat that that the nation is facing. How we ended up here at this point.

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Director of National Intelligence warns of devastating cyber threat to US infrastructure

Security Affairs

JULY 16, 2018

The Director of the National Intelligence Dan Coats warned last week of a devastating cyber threat to US infrastructure, he said that “warning lights are blinking red again.”. 11, 2001 attack. The post Director of National Intelligence warns of devastating cyber threat to US infrastructure appeared first on Security Affairs.

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