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Canada bans WeChat and Kaspersky apps on government-issued mobile devices

Security Affairs

Canada banned the Chinese messaging app WeChat and Kaspersky antivirus on government mobile devices due to privacy and security risks. On a mobile device, the WeChat and Kaspersky applications data collection methods provide considerable access to the device’s contents.”

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Threat Hunting with MITRE ATT&CK

IT Security Guru

These include firewalls, intrusion detection systems, antivirus software, and endpoint protection. While effective, the sheer number of disparate security technologies poses challenges in centralising security data. Each solution generates logs and alerts, creating data silos.

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Data Loss Prevention for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses

IT Security Guru

Not only large enterprises but small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) should realise the threat size, its origin, exogenous or from their inner circle , and the potential impact on their assets. Implementing an effective data loss prevention (DLP) strategy to mitigate these cyber threats and safeguard critical data is imperative.

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Prevent Cyber Attack From Swiss Cheese Slice Approach

Cytelligence

So protecting your computers from different types of cyber attacks is very important. Cyber attacks first happened in 1988, more than three decades back. As per the data collected, around 30,000 websites are hacked every day. In conclusion, the Swiss Cheese Model is an effective approach to preventing cyber-attacks.

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What Is Hybrid Cloud Security? How it Works & Best Practices

eSecurity Planet

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM): SIEM consolidates log data collecting, processing, and reporting from both cloud and on-premises systems, assisting in the detection and response to security events.

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Top 18 Cybersecurity Startups to Watch in 2021

eSecurity Planet

Cybereason offers endpoint detection and response (EDR), antivirus and managed detection and response services. It has an automated hunting engine that looks for unusual behavioral patterns , blocks known attacks and aggregates good and bad behavioral data to simplify investigation. . Darktrace – Threat detection. Cybereason.

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Indictment, Lawsuits Revive Trump-Alfa Bank Story

Krebs on Security

In October 2016, media outlets reported that data collected by some of the world’s most renowned cybersecurity experts had identified frequent and unexplained communications between an email server used by the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank , one of Russia’s largest financial institutions. With few exceptions, the U.S.

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