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Cisco to pay $8.6 million fine for selling flawed surveillance technology to the US Gov

Security Affairs

Back in 2008, a whistle-blower identifies a vulnerability in Cisco video surveillance software, but the tech giant continued to sell the software to US agencies until July 2013. There was no allegation or evidence that any unauthorized access to customers’ video occurred as a result of the architecture.” Cisco is going to pay $8.6

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Ragnar Locker Ransomware targets Greece Gas Company

CyberSecurity Insiders

NOTE- Donuts Leaks, a new data extortion group is also linked to Ragnar Locker and is responsible to target Sheppard Robson, the UK-based Architectural company, and Construction giant Sando and the same group was responsible to announce to the world the digital attack on DESFA.

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Properly Securing Commonly Used Remote Access Technologies (RDP/RDG and VPN)

Cytelligence

In many cases, this resulted in organizations either deploying new technologies, boosting the capabilities of existing solutions or installing secondary and tertiary solutions in case the primary access method suffered a failure of some kind. . Is RDG the solution? . RDG is no different.

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LastPass: Password Manager Review for 2021

eSecurity Planet

LastPass is password management software that’s been popular among business and personal users since it was initially released in 2008. With MFA, your IT administrators can configure an extra layer of authentication that combines biometric technology with contextual intelligence. When it was acquired by LogMeIn Inc.

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Unmasking the Cracks of Today’s Cyber Defence

Jane Frankland

However, new research from e2e-assure has revealed that few organisations are taking full advantage of security technologies available today. You witnessed this during the 2008 recession when the FBI reported a 22.3% As a CISO or ITDM, the cyber defence challenges you face in your business couldn’t be tougher.

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Why do CISOs Keep Quitting on Florida?

SecureWorld News

Another factor, the Digital Service team is now the fourth iteration of a statewide technology agency, as the previous three were all shutdown over contracting scandals or issues with the legislature. And this is increasing cyber risk. Cybersecurity should be our No. 1 concern in our state right now.

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Top Database Security Solutions for 2021

eSecurity Planet

Out of Palo Alto, California, Cloudera started in 2008 by alumni of Google, Yahoo!, Born from Google in 2008, the Google Cloud Platform is a leading cloud infrastructure provider. Started in 1987, the telecommunications provider has become a multinational technology whale. Facebook, and Oracle. Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

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