IT Security Guru

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Very few weeks go by without news of another cyber attack or data breach and a quick scan of the BBC news website shows that in most months, there is at least one story that makes the national news headlines. The post Lessons from the cyber front line appeared first on IT Security Guru. SolarWinds.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

A ransomware attack is about as bad as a cyber attack can get. It can shut down your business – in the case of healthcare organizations that can be life-threatening for patients – damage your reputation with customers and employees, and invite further attacks as cybercriminals view your organization as an easy mark.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Social engineering attacks , including phishing, spam, and viruses introduced via clickable links within e-mail affected 80% of the banking institutions in 2016. What are the benefits of cyber security awareness trainings? You will create cyber awareness among your staff, as well as users, partners, customers.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The backup channel for sharing information is email. In December 2017, Group-IB published its first report on the group: “MoneyTaker: 1.5 Group-IB is one the world’s leading providers of solutions aimed at detection and prevention of cyber attacks, fraud exposure and protection of intellectual property on the Internet.

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McAfee

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Some of the more notable cybersecurity breaches you may remember are Equifax back in 2017, Adobe in 2013, and Zynga (the company that makes Words with Friends) in 2019. The company should also perform frequent backups of key data and shut off old servers and virtual machines that aren’t being used anymore.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 6, 2023

Notable Ransomware Attacks CryptoLocker ushered in the modern ransomware age in 2013, and in 2017, the devastating WannaCry and NotPetya ransomware attacks raised the threat’s profile significantly. One attack in particular thrust ransomware into the spotlight as never before, the May 2021 Colonial Pipeline attack.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2020

US Government fears a new wave of cyber attacks from Iran as retaliation for the airstrike that killed Maj. Krebs, Director of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned of a potential new wave of cyber attacks carried out by Iran-linked hacker groups targeting U.S. Iran, hacking). The post U.S.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Welcome to The Hacker Mind, an original podcast from ForAllsecure about our expectations around people who hack for a living. You are acting as your cyber attacker. Hacking day in and day out. There’s sometimes a very thin line between pen testing and criminal hacking. Want to Learn More About Zero-Days?

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Welcome to The Hacker Mind, an original podcast from ForAllsecure about our expectations around people who hack for a living. You are acting as your cyber attacker. Hacking day in and day out. There’s sometimes a very thin line between pen testing and criminal hacking. And you do this all day. Vamosi: Yeah.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Information Technology research and advisory company, Gartner, presented its top predictions for the cybersecurity industry for 2017 earlier this year. As cyber attacks become increasingly complex and difficult to avoid, a people-centric security approach provides the best opportunity to avoid and recover quickly from attacks on data.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2021

If this is true, then it does not answer the question as to why many of the largest and best protected global corporations and Governments institutions worldwide have been victims of major Cyber-attacks despite deploying the most expensive defence solutions in the market. 30 th November 2020 – Embrear ( www.embrear.com ).

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 8, 2021

Transportation Command in 2017, after learning that their computerized logistical systems were mostly unclassified and on the internet. ” It’s a similar attitude to corporate executives who believe that they can’t be hacked — and equally naive.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 25, 2022

A recording of the CISA CALL WITH CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PARTNERS ON POTENTIAL RUSSIAN CYBER ATTACKS AGAINST THE UNITED STATES has been shared on their YouTube page! Documentation of Two Historical Hacking Campaigns Against Critical Infrastructure. And today, we see a great example of that!

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