The Last Watchdog

MAY 13, 2021

In a day and age when the prime directive for many organizations is to seek digital agility above all else, cool new apps get conceived, assembled and deployed at breakneck speed. In today’s environment, implementing Microsoft-style SDL best coding practices, done manually by a small team, could add weeks to the deployment schedule.

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Adam Levin

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Any business owner who has happened to find themselves stuck in the company’s orbit–that would be any company with a digital presence–won’t hesitate to tell you such a move is long overdue. The copy: “We don’t want to run this ad.” A small, independent co. So here we are.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Expanding your startup into new overseas markets is a tremendously exciting milestone for many ambitious business owners. The prospect of new products, audiences, territories, and competition presents an abundance of opportunities for businesses to thrive, but it is not all sunshine and rainbows.

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Jane Frankland

JULY 13, 2020

Due to the pandemic, and the impact it’s having on businesses, last week I offered a free, online masterclass for entrepreneurs. Having had over twenty-two years of business experience, including business turnaround and recovery, I wanted to ensure other entrepreneurs could move forward and survive. So, let’s identify them.

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Anton on Security

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Please don’t say “XDR team”, if at all possible :-) Q: The “modern SOC” looks great on paper, but it’s harder to find analysts who have necessary skills to focus on threats when you have to deal with attrition. And also “Beware: Clown-grade SOCs Still Abound” for advice on when NOT to hunt.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The app-only service which superficially resembles Twitter has ended up with one million users in a very short space of time, thanks to snowballing word of mouth. At the time of the Hive popularity explosion, concerns were raised about the incredibly small team behind the app. Hive Social pulls the plug.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 24, 2023

Cybercrime has skyrocketed in the last few years, and the websites of small and medium-sized companies have been the most frequent target of web attacks. It was created to enable businesses to grow their websites in a secure environment. It runs as an Apache proxy, meaning that websites get the best possible speeds.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 28, 2023

In this article, we will define automatic patch management, explain how it operates, go through its benefits and drawbacks, and list some of the best practices and top automated patch management tools of 2023. But even overburdened small businesses can benefit from the practice.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 21, 2022

Here, we’ll take you through the situation as it stands for businesses, and predict some of the most important measures you can take to protect your business in the Metaverse. Now, it involves tools like project management apps, video-conferencing, remote productivity trackers, and so on. The Metaverse and the future of work.

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IT Security Guru

AUGUST 9, 2022

Hackers target small and medium businesses as they don’t have the resources to pay for cybersecurity tools and network upgrades to protect their data against the latest cybercriminals’ tricks as large corporations do. Be cautious when you enter public wi-fi and use VPN to protect you from hacking techniques and phishing attacks.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Shoppers and philanthropists are both easier targets during the busy holiday season. Individuals, businesses and organizations alike need to tread carefully. With the projected increase of online holiday shopping comes an increase in threats, be it via phishing , shady mobile apps , or e-skimming attacks. “An

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 19, 2023

GitLab Best DevOps unified platform GitLab is primarily known as a version control system and DevOps platform but also includes built-in application security features. While Qualys does not publicly disclose its prices, customers have shared that pricing packages can range from $300 for small businesses to $2,000 for larger packages.

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IT Security Guru

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

In today’s cloud-based enterprise, APIs are a critical part of every business. Microservices are small, modular, independent services that can be deployed, scaled, and updated independently. The best way to secure an API is to design it with security in mind from the start. Microservices communicate over APIs.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 3, 2022

It may sound bizarre, but it’s actually a fairly popular attack focused on small/self-run business owners selling their own creations. You’re a small business owner. It asks for name, address, a description of sold items, business name, and phone number. Are you ready for a trip to the craft fair?

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 9, 2023

The largest businesses, government agencies, non-profit corporations, universities, and other similar sized organizations qualify as enterprises. Intruder uses an enterprise-grade scanning engine to run emerging threat scans for newly discovered vulnerabilities. Results are then emailed to IT and available on the dashboard.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

In part 2 , I covered IP addresses and the importance of a decent network to run all this stuff on, followed by Zigbee and the role of low power, low bandwidth devices. I started with the Philips Hue app which was both auto-updating and at the latest firmware version: Ok, that's good, not something I need to think about then.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 16, 2022

Cyber attackers, fraudsters, and hackers target both small-scale, midsized, and large online ecom enterprises. . . In fact, the frequency of small businesses fraud is at 28% compared to larger organizations at 22-26%. . This portrays a grim picture for ecommerce businesses — filled with data breaches and irate customers.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Consider that as agile software development proliferates, fresh APIs get flung into service to build and update cool new apps. Meanwhile, the best security tooling money can was never designed to deal with this phenomenon. You need to see the APIs running to catch these problems.”. API vulnerabilities are running rampant.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Instead of protecting you from the bad guys, it will increasingly protect businesses and their business models from you. The centralized computer center concept was shaken by people buying PCs to run VisiCalc; now it's iPads and Android smartphones. Windows vs. Mac doesn't matter when all you need is a web browser.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 30, 2024

Before performing a firewall configuration, consider factors such as security requirements, network architecture, and interoperability; avoid typical firewall setup errors; and follow the best practices below. Select the Correct Firewall Type Choose the firewall type that best meets your network’s needs.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 27, 2021

What’s the best antivirus software? We here at eSecurity Planet have our own views and methodology on this much-debated issue, and present to you our reviews of the Best Antivirus Software of 2021. Not cheap – Palo Alto’s Okyo starts at $349 a year – but that might be a small price to pay for peace of mind.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 12, 2022

It seems as though the adversaries are always a step ahead, and all we can do is try our best to contain the breaches. Web apps, the big attack opportunity for cybercriminals. We are living in a software-defined world, and the vulnerability of web apps is a growing problem. Protecting your web apps in the real-world.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 18, 2024

It’s a scalable and cost-effective storage solution for businesses offered through a subscription service. When assessing the overall security of cloud storage and choosing a solution tailored to your business, it helps to determine its features, potential risks, security measures, and other considerations.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

These services can be used in a legitimate manner for several business purposes — such as price comparisons or sales intelligence — but they are massively abused for hiding cybercrime activity because they can make it difficult to trace malicious traffic to its original source. THE INTERNET NEVER FORGETS. com , cleantraffic[.]net

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Herjavec Group

OCTOBER 1, 2021

In this piece, Robert discusses Cybersecurity Awareness Month (CSAM) and his message to his fellow business leaders as a champion of the global initiative. In this piece, Robert discusses Cybersecurity Awareness Month (CSAM) and his message to his fellow business leaders as a champion of the global initiative.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Storing and maintaining the integrity of data is at the heart of any business from small sole trader to large multinational company. If your business has not yet made the move to the cloud, but is considering doing so, it can be confusing trying to choose one provider from the myriad of cloud backup options available.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 2, 2018

Claire McCaskill by Russian intelligency agency hackers, as she runs for re-election, underscores the need for each individual and organization to take online privacy and security as a core part of our everyday lives. They built a very robust group of committed cybersecurity professionals in their own businesses. The targeting of Sen.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 23, 2019

The reason lays in a combination of downtime costs and lost business due to reputational harm. What you should remember when implementing your backup plan is that backups are not ransomware-proof by default. Contrary to antivirus software, which requires a very small effort to set up, firewalls usually require special knowledge.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 9, 2021

“We have a few investments in different aspects of cloud security, but I think the combination of modern infrastructure and policy-as-code is a trend that I’m watching very closely,” Chenxi Wang, a general partner at venture capital firm Rain Capital, told SC Media last month when asked where the next cyber investment unicorn may come from.

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SecureList

AUGUST 15, 2022

In recent months, they have also become more interested in businesses located in other East Asian countries and their China-based offices. The vulnerability affects the Spring MVC and Spring WebFlux applications running under version 9 or later of the Java Development Kit. So, the decryption requires clean files of different sizes.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

Governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) software helps businesses manage all of the necessary documentation and processes for ensuring maximum productivity and preparedness. Mobile app? Business resiliency. Business continuity planning. Business integrity screening. Business continuity management.

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NopSec

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

We do so to break and exploit the weakest exposures before building the best security software that truly solves the data overload and silo problems. Enterprises, large or small, on average own between 20 and 100+ security tools. My partners, Michelangelo Sidagni and Shawn Evans, always advocate the mentality of “think like a hacker.”

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Digital Shadows

JUNE 7, 2021

However, as many cryptocurrency platforms strongly encourage the use of two-factor authentication (2FA) methods such as authenticator apps, gaining access to your crypto accounts isn’t so simple. Authenticator apps mean that threat actors can’t just input credentials obtained during a phishing campaign to access your wallet.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

Governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) software helps businesses manage all of the necessary documentation and processes for ensuring maximum productivity and preparedness. Mobile app? Business resiliency. Business continuity planning. Business integrity screening. Business continuity management.

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Google Security

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

A physical label, either printed on a box or visible in an app, can be used if and only if it encourages users to visit the website (e.g. Printed labels, if they convey trust implicitly such as, “certified to NNN standard” or, “3 stars”, run the danger of influencing consumers to make harmful decisions. Security is not a binary state.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 22, 2021

The final piece was the business model. The penetration tester gives it their ‘best effort’ for that given time. By running continuously, it is reasonable to expect to find all the assets there are to find (within the asset types CAST is designed to discover, of course). CAST addresses both these shortcomings.

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Spinone

AUGUST 25, 2018

We do it in the cloud by backing up SaaS data, analyzing it and alerting G Suite Administrators of potential insider threats and business risks. Second, we identify security threats and business risks and fix them, before disaster strikes. Employees install suspicious third-party apps that get access to corporate data at G Suite.

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