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News alert: Criminal IP and Quad9 collaborate to exchange domain and IP threat intelligence

The Last Watchdog

Through this integration, Quad9 leverages the most up-to-date threat intelligence lists, incorporating data from Criminal IP’s database of malicious domains to block harmful hostnames. Quad9 is operated as a non-profit by the Quad9 Foundation in Switzerland for the purpose of improving the privacy and cybersecurity of Internet users.

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GUEST ESSAY – Notable events in hacking history that helped transform cybersecurity assessment

The Last Watchdog

Phishing scams, malware, ransomware and data breaches are just some of the examples of cyberthreats that can devastate business operations and the protection of consumer information. It foreshadowed how encryption would come to be used as a foundation for Internet commerce – by companies and criminals. The Creeper Virus (1971).

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Octo Tempest cybercriminal group is "a growing concern"—Microsoft

Malwarebytes

A unique technique used by Octo Tempest is to use the data movement platform Azure Data Factory, and automated pipelines, to extract data to external servers, aiming to blend in with typical big data operations. Use endpoint security software that can prevent exploits and malware used to deliver ransomware.

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The Evolving Cybersecurity Threats to Critical National Infrastructure

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Reducing the risk of attacks such as ransomware and malware on CNI will be paramount to the stability of national economies for the years to come. According to the Thales Critical Infrastructure research, 32% of the questioned enterprises claim that more than 60% of the data they store in the cloud are sensitive.

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Emerging security challenges for Europe’s emerging technologies

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The vast majority (84%) of enterprises are now using, or planning to use, digitally transformative technologies – such as big data, containers, blockchain and the Internet of Things (IoT). The picture looks rather different, when we look at evolving threats in the context of big data.

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Exploring Cybersecurity Research Topics for Master’s Degree Studies

CyberSecurity Insiders

IoT Security: Examine the vulnerabilities and challenges associated with securing the Internet of Things (IoT) devices and networks. Investigate techniques for anomaly detection, malware analysis, and intrusion detection using machine learning models, and develop innovative approaches to bolster the effectiveness of cybersecurity defenses.

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MY TAKE: Why monetizing data lakes will require applying ‘attribute-based’ access rules to encryption

The Last Watchdog

Data lakes continue to swell because each second of every day, every human, on average, is creating 1.7 megabytes of fresh data. These are the rivulets feeding the data lakes. Big data just keeps getting bigger. PKI is the authentication and encryption framework on which the Internet is built.