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

Malwarebytes

” Since then the group has expanded its range of activities to include targeting organizations providing cable telecommunications, email, and tech services, and partnering with the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group. Similar to that the group uses many Living off the land (LOTL) techniques that make it hard to spot its activities.

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The Evolving Cybersecurity Threats to Critical National Infrastructure

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The 2023 Thales Data Threat Report Critical Infrastructure Edition , which includes responses from 365 security leaders and practitioners within critical infrastructure organizations, serves as a fine reminder of the requirement to embed security into the culture of every organization and individual.

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The Essential Guide to Radio Frequency Penetration Testing

Pen Test

In contemporary times, with the exponential growth of the Internet of Things (IoT), smart homes, connected cars, and wearable devices, the importance of RF pentesting has soared significantly. GHz and 5 GHz bands, providing high-speed wireless internet connectivity (Kurkovsky, 2006). In Handbook of Big Data Technologies (pp.

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Top 5 Industries Most Vulnerable to Data Breaches in 2023

Security Boulevard

Every organization is, to varying degrees, potentially at risk of experiencing a data breach. Below is an overview of each of these industries, the types of data breaches they face, and examples of data breaches that have happened in the specific industries. Supply chain security and third-party vulnerabilities.

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Cyber Security Awareness and Risk Management

Spinone

The contemporary world has witnessed the rise of the Internet and global communication, and collaboration technologies, including mobile data use and the culture of bring your own device [BYOD]. I’m not exaggerating: A s ecure cloud backup solution can save hours, days, months and years of your team’s work.

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Ten Years Later, New Clues in the Target Breach

Krebs on Security

For many years, Ika held a key position at one of Russia’s largest Internet service providers, and his (mostly glowing) reputation as a reliable provider of web hosting to the Russian cybercrime community gave him an encyclopedic knowledge about nearly every major player in that scene at the time.

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Top 18 Cybersecurity Startups to Watch in 2021

eSecurity Planet

.” This is a valuable corner of the market, as an estimated 80 percent of all data breaches occur while data is traveling between cloud networks. These include CarrierEdge for telecommunications service providers, MicroEdge for the IoT industry and CloudEdge for enterprises. Privafy received $22 million in funding in 2020.