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Prevent Cyber Attack From Swiss Cheese Slice Approach

Cytelligence

With the internet becoming a part of our daily lives it is sad but important to know that the dangers of Cyber attacks are increasing every day. First, let’s understand what is a cyber attack. So protecting your computers from different types of cyber attacks is very important.

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MY TAKE: What NortonLifeLock’s $8 billion buyout of Avast portends for consumer security

The Last Watchdog

This deal reads like to the epilogue to a book titled The First 20 Years of the Supremely Lucrative Antivirus Market. Way back in 1990, Symantec acquired Norton Utilities and made Norton the heart of its antivirus subscription offering. Related: The coming of ubiquitous passwordless access.

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Author Q&A: Here’s why the good guys must continually test the limitations of ‘EDR’

The Last Watchdog

Related: How ‘XDR’ defeats silos Now along comes a new book, Evading EDR: The Definitive Guide for Defeating Endpoint Detection Systems , by a red team expert, Matt Hand, that drills down a premier legacy security system that is in the midst of this transition: endpoint detection and response, EDR. Hand: I don’t believe so.

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Security Roundup August 2023

BH Consulting

This could include malware that antivirus and security solutions can’t detect; a secure internet connection to prevent tracing; initial access to victim companies’ networks or mailboxes (which is also key to many ransomware infections); effective social engineering content; fraudulent content hosting, and more.

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How poor cybersecurity policies disrupt business continuity

IT Security Guru

It’s surprising, to see just how many businesses have plans in place for all sorts of things such as fire, flood and COVID-related issues, yet don’t have any action plans in place should a cyber attack occur. What happens in the minutes, hours and days after an attack is crucial.

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Researchers Perform An Analysis on Chinese Malware Used Against Russian Government

Hacker Combat

Chinese espionage groups are notorious for global cyber-attacks that target state agencies, research institutes, military contractors, and other agencies and institutions with espionage in mind. . The attacks by Asian hackers remain unnoticed by IT security services or antiviruses.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 201 – News of the week

Security Affairs

Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal. Bank of Valletta shut down its operations after a cyber attack. Astaroth Trojan relies on legitimate os and antivirus processes to steal data. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! 20% discount.