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Major Hotel Group Leaks 1TB of Customer Data

Adam Levin

Our team was able to access this server because it was completely unsecured and unencrypted,” announced VPN review website vpnMentor in a blog article describing their findings. . Gekko Group is a worldwide B2B hotel booking platform that serves over 600,000 hotels worldwide.

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Q&A: Here’s why VPNs are likely to remain a valuable DIY security tool for consumers, SMBs

The Last Watchdog

Related: VPNs vs ZTNA. It’s in findings of a deep dive data analytics study led by Surfshark , a supplier of VPN services aimed at the consumer and SMB markets. Here are excerpts of our dialogue, edited for clarity and length: LW: Is it safe to assume demand for consumer VPNs has spiked, post Covid19?

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GUEST ESSAY: Here’s how Secure Access Service Edge — ‘SASE’ — can help, post Covid-19

The Last Watchdog

Many enterprises have accelerated their use of Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions to support remote workers during this pandemic. However deploying VPNs on a wide-scale basis introduces performance and scalability issues. SASE then provides secure connectivity between the cloud and users, much as with a VPN.

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Update now! Patch Tuesday January 2023 includes one actively exploited vulnerability

Malwarebytes

The upgrade action can be triggered by running the SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard, the Upgrade-SPFarm PowerShell cmdlet, or the " psconfig.exe -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b " command on each SharePoint server after installing the update. SAP published 12 new and updated patches.

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Access Control: The 5 Single Sign-On Benefits

IT Security Guru

Supports Business to Business (B2B), Business to Consumer (B2C) and Business to Employee (B2E) activities (e.g., Organizations that are considering enhancing IAM also note the challenges that accompany the virtual private network (VPN) model. A VPN provides a secure, encrypted connection over the Internet from a device to a network.

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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. You can combat this by keeping website security solutions up to date, mandating virtual private network (VPN) use mandatory for local and remote workers, and being diligent about routine tasks like log monitoring.

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Top 5 Attack Vectors to Look Out For in 2022

Security Affairs

The technologies used by organizations to facilitate remote work include virtual private network (VPN) connections and remote desktop protocol (RDP). Opportunistic threat actors know that with remote work not going away, there will be chances to gain entry to corporate networks by exploiting RDP and VPN connections.

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