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Help Your Security Team Sleep Better at Night by Reducing False Positives

CyberSecurity Insiders

You are likely using Web APIs to support both B2B communication and the mobile applications that users increasingly rely on in lieu of a traditional web browser. And bot networks aren’t just for DDoS anymore – threat actors increasingly deploy them for data mining, account takeover, digital ad fraud, and transaction fraud.

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SHARED INTEL Q&A: My thoughts and opinions about cyber threats — as discussed with OneRep

The Last Watchdog

Editor’s note: I recently had the chance to participate in a discussion about the overall state of privacy and cybersecurity with Erin Kapczynski, OneRep’s senior vice president of B2B marketing. OneRep provides a consumer service that scrubs your personal information from Google and dozens of privacy-breaching websites.

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Don’t Drown your Security Team in Low-Value WAF Alerts

CyberSecurity Insiders

Web APIs are increasingly used to support both B2B communication and the mobile applications that users increasingly rely on in lieu of a traditional web browser. And threat actors are using increasingly sophisticated bot networks not just for DDoS attacks, but for data mining, account takeover, digital ad fraud, and transaction fraud.

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The Expanding Attack Surface: Don’t Forget to Protect your APIs

CyberSecurity Insiders

That client doesn’t even have to be a web browser anymore—it could also be a mobile application or even B2B communication with no intention that the information is ever displayed to a human user.

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Increasing Your Business’s Cyber Threat Intelligence

SiteLock

With more consumers and B2B enterprises conducting business in the cyber world, security threats are an increasing concern. Although new threats are being created every day, most successful hacks are variations on old themes, like the DDoS attacks that are as old as the internet itself. Learn from the past.

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The State of Blockchain Applications in Cybersecurity

eSecurity Planet

DDoS: Overwhelming the Network. In the age-old denial of service (DDoS) attack, a fleet of attacker devices can overwhelm an organization’s web server, thus blocking access to legitimate users. Still, how does the adoption of cryptocurrency as a form of consumer or B2B payment impact business processes and cybersecurity?

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SANS Outlines Critical Infrastructure Security Steps as Russia, U.S. Trade Cyberthreats

eSecurity Planet

Kevin Holvoet of the Centre for Cybersecurity Belgium (CCB) said Russian-sponsored attacks in recent months against Ukraine and other targets have included: DDoS attacks on government, military, finance and communications. Inventory B2B VPNs and block all high-risk protocols (see slide below). Plan for rapid containment.

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