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Digital Risk Types Demystified: A Strategic Insight into Online Threats

Centraleyes

The digital landscape is advancing, and the risks of shirking cutting-edge technology are substantial. It’s well known that while new technologies open up novel pathways, they also come with risks. According to a recent Deloitte report , more than half (52%) of consumers feel more at risk in the digital environment.

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Google Public DNS’s approach to fight against cache poisoning attacks

Google Security

In this post, we will look at DNS cache poisoning attacks and how Google Public DNS addresses the risks associated with them. The path from a client to the resolver is usually on a local network or can be protected using encrypted transports like DoH, DoT. Google Public DNS). And ADoT is in use for around 6% of egress traffic.

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The Clock is Ticking for PCI DSS 4.0 Compliance

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The deadline is fast approaching The PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) was developed in 2008 to standardize the security controls that need to be enforced by businesses processing payment card data in order to protect cardholder data and sensitive authentication data wherever it is stored, processed, or transmitted. Requirement 12.5

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Data Privacy and Security: It Takes Two to Tango

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Data Privacy Day began in the United States and Canada in January 2008 as an extension of Data Protection Day in Europe. However, with technology innovation comes new risks, security challenges and threats. Merely suggesting using multi-factor authentication (MFA) or encrypting everywhere is not enough. Happy Data Privacy Week.

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Law enforcement shutdown the VPN service VPNLab used by many cybercriminal gangs

Security Affairs

VPNLab was launched in 2008 and was offering online anonymity to criminal organizations. Its technology was based on OpenVPN and adopted 2048-bit encryption, the price for the subscription was very low, just $60/year. The authorities seized 15 VPNLab.net servers across 10 countries. ” continues the EUROPOL. Europol said.

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Feds Warn About Critical Infrastructure Ransomware Attacks, Vulnerabilities

eSecurity Planet

The ransomware encrypts files on compromised Windows host systems, including physical and virtual servers, the advisory noted, and the executable leaves a ransom note in all directories where encryption occurs, including ransom payment instructions for obtaining a decryption key. The 15 Vulnerabilities Explained. 7 SP1, 8, 8.1)

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STEPS FORWARD: Math geniuses strive to make a pivotal advance — by obfuscating software code

The Last Watchdog

Tatsuaki Okamoto, director of NTT Research’s Cryptography and Information Security (CIS) Lab , and Dr. Amit Sahai, professor of computer science at UCLA Samueli School of Engineering and director of UCLA Center for Encrypted Functionalities (CEF). This, in fact, is the core security challenge companies face defending their business networks.

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