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How to Comply with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) revised Safeguards Rule

CyberSecurity Insiders

The rule was first introduced in 2002 and has been revised multiple times to keep up with evolving technology and security threats. Implementation of multi-factor authentication. The revised Safeguards Rule also requires implementation of multi-factor authentication.

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3.4 Million user records from LiveAuctioneers hack available for sale

Security Affairs

Auctions platform LiveAuctioneers admitted to have suffered a data breach that likely impacted approximately 3.4 Auctions platform LiveAuctioneers disclosed a a data breach that might have impacted approximately 3.4 ” reads the data breach notification published by the company. million users.

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VMware Flaw a Vector in SolarWinds Breach?

Krebs on Security

7, 2020, the NSA said “Russian state-sponsored malicious cyber actors are exploiting a vulnerability in VMware Access and VMware Identity Manager products, allowing the actors access to protected data and abusing federated authentication.” 3, and said it learned about the flaw from the NSA. ” Also on Dec.

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US citizens lost more than $68M to SIM swap attacks in 2021, FBI warns

Security Affairs

In 2018, the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received complaints for 1,611 SIM swapping attacks, while the number of complaints in the period between 2018 e 2002 was 320 causing a total of losses of $12 million. Authenticate calls from third party authorized retailers requesting. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Quantum computing brings new security risks: How to protect yourself

CyberSecurity Insiders

The average cost of a data breach reached an all-time high in 2021, and the attack vector grows larger by the minute. To put this in perspective, it took a group of 300,000 people and four years of work to crack a 64-bit key in 2002. Even now, our cybersecurity climate is getting hotter. Implement Zero Trust.

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MY TAKE: New ‘cyberthreat index’ shows SMBs cognizant of big risks, ill-prepared to deal with them

The Last Watchdog

The company got its start in 2002 in Gulf Breeze, Florida, as a two-man operation that set out to help small firms filter the early waves of email spam. Many SMBs lack the wherewithal to recover from the long-run consequences of a serious breach. There are so many more ways to subvert authentication.

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Top Cybersecurity Companies for 2021

eSecurity Planet

Our products enable them to minimize the risk of data breaches and ensure regulatory compliance by proactively reducing the exposure of sensitive data and promptly detecting policy violations and suspicious user behavior. Founded: 2002. Learn more about Netwrix. Proofpoint. Headquarters: Sunnyvale, California.