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Cybersecurity Snapshot: CISA Calls for Stamping Out Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities, as Europol Tells Banks To Prep For Quantum Threat

Security Boulevard

Plus, Europol offers best practices for banks to adopt quantum-resistant cryptography. In addition to adopting post-quantum cryptography , banks and other financial institutions should take this opportunity to boost their cryptography management practices, according to Europol.

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GUEST ESSAY: Top cybersecurity developments that can be expected to fully play out in 2019

The Last Watchdog

The risk will rise and eventually this will cause more issues with a few headlines of devices that were used to hack networks. In the same respect, you wouldn’t expect a bank branch to deploy anti-missile defense systems against the possibility of an offending country. IoT security issues will increase.

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How do Companies Process Sensitive Data and Why is That Important?

CyberSecurity Insiders

Similarly, you have to gather their name, addresses, social security numbers, and even banking information. For instance, imagine some hacker breaks into your database and hacks all of your private employer data; this won’t only cost and disturb individual lives but also cost you financially and even cost your brand reputation. . .

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Xen and the Art of Vulnerability Maintenance

NopSec

One obvious, and unfortunate, motivation for a penetration test is because you have been hacked and want to discover more about the exploitable vulnerabilities and threats to your systems. To paraphrase Sun Tzu, if you know yourself and the enemy, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.