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MyBook Users Urged to Unplug Devices from Internet

Krebs on Security

. “Western Digital has determined that some My Book Live and My Book Live Duo devices are being compromised through exploitation of a remote command execution vulnerability,” the company said in a statement June 24. The My Book Live and My Book Live Duo devices received its final firmware update in 2015. .”

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Building a Ransomware Resilient Architecture

eSecurity Planet

You have the disaster recovery (DR) site, backups, and storage area network (SAN) snapshots. As you try each one, that pit in your stomach grows as you experience the worst feeling in IT: the realization you have no backup for recovery. Your backups, the backup server, and all the backup storage — all encrypted by ransomware.

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7 Cyber Safety Tips to Outsmart Scammers

Webroot

Lockdown your privacy settings Your online profiles are like open books to cyber snoops unless you lock them down. Safeguard your privacy with a trustworthy VPN In the digital-verse, protecting your online privacy is paramount, like guarding the secret recipe to your grandma’s famous carrot cake.

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Lessons from the cyber front line

IT Security Guru

It’s likely the cyber criminals were lurking on Tavelex’s network before initiating their ransomware, having gained access via an unpatched VPN (Virtual Private Network). If Travelex didn’t pay the ransom, they threatened to publicly publish the data. Travelex reportedly paid around $2.3M

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Security in 2020: Revisited

Schneier on Security

Employees already have their laptops configured just the way they like them, and they don't want another one just for getting through the corporate VPN. Call it decentralization : our email, photos, books, music, and documents are stored somewhere, and accessible to us through our consumer devices.

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Why are “Secure” Companies Still Being Hacked?

Security Boulevard

But then clients give the consultants VPN access, so then all that jazz. But apart from philosophy, books and technical stuff, what I really like to read is I'm a manga geek. And then I'm also reading some podcasting books, how to make profit off of your podcast and kind of learning how to do things a lot better.

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Black Hat USA 2021 – Top 5 Sessions to Attend & Tips to Survive Now that Conferences are Back In-Person

Security Boulevard

Book your demo today. Update, patch, and backup your devices before you leave home. Avoid Public WIFI and use mobile data always with a VPN. We are offering customized product demos, tailored to address your organization’s modern security needs at scale. Not registered? And Finally, My Top Survival Tips for Hacker Cons.

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