The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 27, 2022

Such consolidation across markets is good news for customers and vendors alike in terms of market growth and maximizing security investments. Throughout this period, the risk level of the acquirer is much higher than the acquired company, creating a major cybersecurity gap as they merge their tech stack and security tools together.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

In just three months, hackers have debuted at least two strains of malware designed to attack Apple’s new M1 chip. Noted Mac security researcher Patrick Wardle published a blog Feb. 14 noting that a Safari adware extension that was originally written to run on Intel x86 chips was revamped to run on the new M1 chips.

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McAfee

DECEMBER 10, 2020

McAfee was the only vendor to be named the January 2020 Gartner Peer Insights ‘Voice of the Customer’ Customers’ Choice for Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASBs). Disclaimer: Gartner, Gartner Peer Insights ‘Voice of the Customer’: Cloud Access Security Brokers, 13 March 2020. Coolest Cloud and Coolest Endpoint Security Companies.

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BH Consulting

JULY 14, 2021

New guidance helps small businesses tackle common security risks. ENISA has published new guidance for SMEs, identifying common security threats and giving recommendations on protecting their business. It’s especially intended to help smaller companies without dedicated security or IT teams. Links we liked.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 5, 2019

I’m privileged to share news that two Last Watchdog articles were recognized in the 2019 Information Management Today MVP Awards. I’ve been paying close attention to privacy and cybersecurity since 2004, first as a technology reporter at USA TODAY, then as Editor-In-Chief of ThirdCertainty.com, a corporate-underwritten news analysis blog.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

This Monday, The United States began the annual security talks with China and an official said that the US government representative would raise directly the major data breach at OPM during the discussion. This talk was followed by a two-day Cabinet-level discussion on security and economy starting on Tuesday.

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BH Consulting

AUGUST 16, 2023

Its findings are valuable for security professionals too. She has been shortlisted for the Piccaso Privacy Awards 2023 in two categories: ESG privacy initiative, and the privacy award for achievement. And to cover some other big privacy developments, last month the EU Commission adopted a new legal framework for EU-US data sharing.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 11, 2024

Ransomware remains just one of many different threats and as security teams eliminate key vectors of attack, adversaries will shift tactics. Unmanaged devices consist of any device that connects to the network, cloud resources, or other assets without corporate-controlled security. What Are Unmanaged Devices?

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Approachable Cyber Threats

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Category Cybersecurity Fundamentals Risk Level. Many organizations will hire good guy hackers, also called “white hats”, to test the security of their IT devices. Checking the news may also tell you about some big vulnerabilities that exist. If you don’t validate, you may be giving yourself a false sense of security.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

From my first talk with George Kurtz at CrowdStrike, I felt like I’d met a kindred spirit, and I’m so excited to share that CrowdStrike has become a Salt Security investor, and Salt is joining the CrowdStrike partner ecosystem. Both companies believe that context is essential to effective security. Better context, better security.

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Cisco Security

JANUARY 10, 2023

Using this information, last year I wrote a blog summing up the nine top of mind issues I believed will most impact CISOs as we headed into 2022. Many of them still ring true now and will continue to do so, but some new concerns have risen up the agenda. Getting the basics right.

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BH Consulting

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Published by the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), it lists the most common weaknesses that organisations should focus on. A new category for this edition is ‘insecure design’. It aims to support the industry’s ambition to embed security at an earlier stage of the software development process.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Typically, the laggards in adopting new technologies have been those biased toward the lowest risks, and that heavily emphasize using secure and proven approaches to new deployments. That doesn’t make them less sophisticated about securing the infrastructure that they have. IT security spending increases are leveling out.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

The report also examined which user categories showed the largest threat, the most vulnerable applications and data, common launch points for attacks, budget trends and more. To prevent this, energy companies should take more efforts in protecting data security both from external threats and from internal threats. Employees of the St.

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BH Consulting

JANUARY 4, 2023

New Year is a time for looking forward, but discouraging signs from cybercriminals in 2023 could spell bad news for cybersecurity professionals. What does this have to do with security? A forecast from security software company Norton expects the worsening economic situation will drive cybercrime activity during 2023.

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BH Consulting

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

This blog is the first in a series where I will cover what a cyberattack involves, outline how it’s carried out, and explain how it might differ depending on your chosen technology platform. The framework divides attacks into 14 separate categories and provides in-depth descriptions of the techniques associated with each one.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 4, 2019

GCIS was a Davos-level conference with no vendors and no selling, where scores of chief security information officers (CISOs), top CEO’s, industry and government thought leaders and leading innovators discussed the myriad challenges in and around cybersecurity and possible solutions in today’s environment. On average in the U.S,

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 27, 2020

AI is one of the most profound things we’re working on as humanity,” Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet, Google’s parent holding company, told Bloomberg News in Davos. Pichai was alluding to how AI has already impacted production and given corporations a glimpse of its upside potential to drive economic growth to dizzying new heights.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 8, 2019

It’s well worth it to stay abreast of news about defensive actions Google is forced to take to protect Android users. I had the chance to sit down with Nikolaos Chrysaidos (pictured), head of mobile threat intelligence and security at Avast, to drill down on the wider context of the helpful findings apklabl.io has begun delivering.

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McAfee

MARCH 18, 2020

Why does my organization need to have a Shadow IT solution when we already own a Next-Gen Firewall / Web Proxy and have all the logs in a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solution? NGFW and Web Proxies typically catalog web services using a category and a reputation score. appeared first on McAfee Blogs.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 7, 2021

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. I have divided my 2022 predictions into two categories. The national security community believes that satellites could be targeted by cyber-attacks to disrupt communications or information streams vital for commerce and security. Strategic, and Tactical.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 28, 2023

And although only the most high-profile attacks tend to make news, cybercriminals target businesses of every size and in every industry. Our solutions layer into a client’s existing security stack and provide the critical visibility into malicious behavior and communication that is the first sign of an intrusion.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 21, 2023

For the record, this phenomenon isn't exactly new. Remember the news-making story of a hacker group calling themselves The Dark Overlord? Marketo authors have since reached out to security analysts and the media to spread the word about their hugely controversial project.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

This year, too, blackmailers began to take advantage of news sensations to add substance to their threats. The appearance of that page could lull the potential victim into a false sense of security, as all they needed to do was enter their password. Email campaigns that promised compensation could also threaten computer security.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

A blog post published earlier this year posed the question "Is Grammarly a keylogger?" Whether or not you like what Grammarly does, Grammarly is not a keylogger, according to the way that term is used by the security industry. For this reason, most security software will detect these so-called "legitimate" keyloggers as PUPs.

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WIRED Threat Level

DECEMBER 22, 2017

From finding the right reporter to drafting the perfect, creative pitch to securing interest from media and then to finally seeing that beautiful piece of client coverage post – that’s what keeps me excited about PR. Check out the possible reach in your target industry, especially if it’s a niche category.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 17, 2024

Cain and Alexander DeMine Overview Remote Browser Isolation (RBI) is a security technology which has been gaining popularity for large businesses securing their enterprise networks in recent years. We categorize our suggested techniques into three categories: ingress, egress, and bypass. Authored By: Lance B. Why should I care?”

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 10, 2023

Here are our picks for the top threat intelligence feeds that security teams should consider adding to their defensive arsenal: AlienVault Open Threat Exchange: Best for community-driven threat feeds FBI InfraGard: Best for critical infrastructure security abuse.ch

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Internet Internet Cybersecurity Malware 68

Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2022

. “The 0-day exploits were used alongside n-day exploits as the developers took advantage of the time difference between when some critical bugs were patched but not flagged as security issues and when these patches were fully deployed across the Android ecosystem.” ” reads the advisory published by Google.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Those who wished to receive the “aid” were asked to state their full name, contact details, date of birth, social security and driver’s license numbers, gender, and current employer, attaching a scanned copy of their driver’s license. The news agenda was also used in other scam mailings.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 5, 2021

Some of them might be victims, and some of them might relate to security detection or analysis such as sandboxing. Some news articles conjecture it is related to APT29 or Cozy Bear, a Russian hacker group, and the detailed evidence is not revealed. Distribution of Victims by Industry Category. But which one remains a mystery.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 8, 2023

And I was really fortunate to land the security beat right away. I wrote two books, one on IoT Security and another with Kevin Mitnick, then jumped around a couple of different jobs. What if you are a woman in information security? And the good news? WANG : it was the security security practice.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 13, 2024

Product Release News If you know the movie and novel The Princess Bride , then you’re familiar with a certain narcissistic, 2-bit criminal concluding that “you fell victim to one of the classic blunders.” It also helps ensure that employees have the “experience” determined by IT Security based upon the location of the employee.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The good news though, is that we've never had a competitor because it's just it's gonna be impossible to make money in this space with something that featureful for free, so it's an interesting side effect of of that hidden market. WIENS : Yeah, there's multiple categories that will come up and right there. Like for a long time.

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Elie

DECEMBER 20, 2018

This post looks at two-factor authentication adoption in the wild, highlights the disparity of support between the various categories of websites, and illuminates how fragmented the two factor ecosystem is in terms of standard adoption. reuse of passwords found in data breaches and phishing attacks. Finally, while there are. a lot of studies.

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Cisco Security

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This blog was written by Annika Mammen, former User Experience Engineer at Cisco There are so many areas to consider when dealing with protecting and detecting threats, unfortunately cognitive overload is one problem that is often overlooked. Similarly, the security world is filled with alerts, metrics, targets, etc.

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Cisco Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

My good friend and fellow Advisory CISO Helen Patton has done a great summary of the memo in a previous blog. So, we’ve put together the following recommendations to assist IT and IT security practitioners in making the most of this new mandate. To what degree can we tie access polices to a device’s security posture?

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