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What is SIEM? Security information and event management explained

CSO Magazine

Security information and event management (SIEM) tools collect and aggregate log and event data to help identify and track breaches. A SIEM tool's goal is to correlate signals in all that data together to provide security teams with the information they need to identify and track breaches and other problems.

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GUEST ESSAY – Notable events in hacking history that helped transform cybersecurity assessment

The Last Watchdog

Assessing the risks involved in using the latest technology is something our culture had to adopt in the early days of the computer. New technologies come with risks — there’s no denying that. In 1971, researcher Bob Thomas and his team at BBN Technologies created a virus that was later coined the “Creeper” worm.

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Microsoft Defender uses Intel TDT technology against crypto-mining malware

Security Affairs

Microsoft announced an improvement of its Defender antivirus that will leverage Intel’s Threat Detection Technology (TDT) to detect processes associated with crypto-miners. TDT is currently implemented in Intel Core processors and any Intel CPU series that supports Intel vPro technologies, 6th Generation or later.

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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. LW: Anything else?

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OmniVision disclosed a data breach after the 2023 Cactus ransomware attack

Security Affairs

OmniVision Technologies is a company that specializes in developing advanced digital imaging solutions. OmniVision Technologies Inc. The ransomware identifies user accounts by viewing successful logins in Windows Event Viewer, it also uses a modified variant of the open-source PSnmap Tool.

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MY TAKE: The back story on the convergence, continuing evolution of endpoint security

The Last Watchdog

No one in cybersecurity refers to “antivirus” protection any more. The technology that corrals malicious software circulating through desktop PCs, laptops and mobile devices has evolved into a multi-layered security technology referred to as ‘endpoint security.’. This designation change unfolded a few years back.

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Importance of having a Threat Intelligence Platform

CyberSecurity Insiders

Hence, those interested in deploying a TIP in their information technology environments, make sure that the solution is filled with a Multi-source intelligence gathering ability, provided data analytics from vast volumes of data and can start rapid response to cut down cost and impact of a security incident on a company.