The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Cyber-attacks would become much more dangerous and much harder to detect. Once we create overkill in our security measures, in a way that goes unnoticed by regular users, we’ll achieve effective countermeasures to global cyber-threats. About the essayist: Erland Wittkotter is an inventor and technology architect.

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Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2022

Italy announced its National Cybersecurity Strategy for 2022/26, a crucial document to address cyber threats and increase the resilience of the country. Preventing online disinformation in a broader context of the hybrid threat; Management of cyber crises; National and European strategic digital sector autonomy.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Cyber threat actors, with varying resources and motivations, are highly interested in these eye-catching events too. For instance, financially-motivated threat actors often plant in malicious URLs spoofing these events to fraudulent sites, hoping to maximize their chances of scamming naive internet users for a quick (illicit) profit.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Cyber attackers have used misleading information on social media for procuring campaign finances as well as personal and financial information of people and corporations. Executives and leaders should be trained to recognize cyber threats when they see one.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2023

In 2019, a cybersecurity firm demonstrated security risks that could allow an attacker to disrupt engine readings and altitude on an aircraft. Government Accountability Office in 2020 about increasing risk due to connected aircraft technology developments. There was another warning from the U.S.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

This is one of the most widespread cyber threats, making up at least 27% of all malware incidents as per Verizon’s annual DBIR report (2020). Today, bad actors often launch cyber attacks that are a combination of several malware types. Ransomware.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2022

Cybersecurity agencies of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance (United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom) issued a joint advisory warning of cyber attacks on critical infrastructure conducted by Russia-linked threat actors and criminal cyber threats. Enforce multifactor authentication.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2023

The CISA ‘s Joint Cyber Defense Collective (JCDC) initiative is going to build operation plans for protecting and responding to cyber threats. What comes to mind when you think of cyber criminals? Systemic Risk Cybercrime is a broad-reaching threat relevant to both individuals and organizations.

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BH Consulting

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Catastrophising cyber threats “All use similar techniques to catastrophise cyber threats to make being a victim of cybercrime look and feel like being the worst thing in the world. In a recent blog, she made a persuasive case for security teams and IT professionals to stop referring to ‘users’.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 21, 2022

As new solutions have emerged in response to rapidly evolving technology and increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks, SOCs have added tool after tool to their arsenals. When it comes to cybersecurity, more is not always better.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 31, 2022

A cyber threat hunter talks about what he’s learned in his 16+ year cybersecurity career. New streaming ad technology plays hide-and-seek with gamers. Medibank customers' personal data compromised by cyber attack. Healthcare site leaks personal health information via Google and Meta tracking pixels.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 5, 2022

MFA can be challenging to implement for some organizations from a technology or cost perspective or due to user pushback. In some cases, there have been attacks against MFA systems targeting the companies that make them or exploiting the underlying technology. We have entered a new era of cyber threats.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Gartner refers to this as the Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), which is a framework combining the functionality of Wide Area Network (WAN) with network security services to shield against any cyber threats or cloud-enabled SaaS. It incorporates zero-trust technologies and software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN).

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 18, 2024

The timing of this collaboration is particularly significant, given the escalating cyber threats facing organizations across the region. With cyber attacks becoming increasingly sophisticated and frequent, there is an urgent need for proactive defense mechanisms that adapt to evolving threats in real-time.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 6, 2021

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. Retailers are becoming more vulnerable to cyber threats, especially as the industry continues to digitize and more e-commerce businesses emerge. More technology being used to increase operational efficiency means retailers face a higher risk of cyber incidents.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 26, 2023

AI breakthrough The newest breakthrough in artificial intelligence technology is machine learning and generative AI. While machine learning tools are potent weapons against cyber threats, they need cybersecurity professionals to wield them properly.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Fast forward to 2015, and we’ve had several trending cyber security issues appear in just these first few weeks. Below are 7 trending cyber security stories that you should read for February 2015. Anthem Cyber Attack. You can read why Mark leaked the passwords here on his personal blog.

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McAfee

AUGUST 3, 2021

The myriad of technologies used by a typical organization often are not integrated and exist as siloed disparate tools. In the context of cybersecurity, a patchwork of stovepipe solutions not only exposes the environment to risk, but also impacts the cyber defender’s ability to fortify the environment and respond to threats at machine speed.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 11, 2023

"Threat hunters are using AI to identify unusual patterns and summarize large amounts of data, connecting the dots across multiple sources of information and hidden patterns. The work still requires human experts, but Ahlberg says the generative AI technology we're seeing in projects like ChatGPT can help." against and 6.7%

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BH Consulting

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Creeping cyber risk grabbing global headlines The World Economic Forum’s latest Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2024 gives senior leaders a high-level overview of cybersecurity trends. Cyber attacks featured in the top five risks for the year ahead, along with factors like extreme weather and the cost of living crisis.

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Jane Frankland

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In this blog, I’ll be sharing my insights on what you can do to ensure your employees protect themselves, their data, and your organisation’s network and reputation. Reducing financial losses: A successful cyber-attack can lead to significant financial losses for an organisation.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 7, 2021

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. As we near 2022, the cyber threat landscape remains just as ominous. Department Of Justice Creates New Task Force To Take On Ransomware Attacks (forbes.com). The scale and frequency of cyber-attacks against critical infrastructure continues to grow.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 22, 2023

Securing SMB Success: The Indispensable Role of Protective DNS Cyber attacks pose as much risk to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) as they do to large organizations — if not more. Implementing a Domain Name Service (DNS) security solution is the most efficient way to protect your business against a wide variety of attacks.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Related: Cyber spying on the rise. Cyber-attacks would become much more dangerous and much harder to detect. Once we create overkill in our security measures, in a way that goes unnoticed by regular users, we’ll achieve effective countermeasures to global cyber-threats.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Geofencing is a location-based technology that uses GPS to delineate geographical boundaries. This way, geofencing reduces risks associated with cyber threats as cybercriminals from certain geographic locations can be effectively excluded. Now, bring that concept in the world of cybersecurity. That’s geofencing.

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BH Consulting

MARCH 21, 2024

Writing an op-ed column in The Times, Prof Ciaran Martin, former head of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre, argued it’s time to ban ransomware payments. Ransomware is by far the most damaging cyber-threat to most businesses right now,” he wrote.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 3, 2023

In his blog post , Kelley shared a video from CanadianKingpin12 that suggests DarkBERT will go well beyond the social engineering capabilities of the earlier tools with new “concerning capabilities.”

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The Top Cybersecurity Blogs We're Reading in 2020. Here’s a collection of our favorite cybersecurity blogs and websites from the industry's foremost thought leaders and reporters. #9. Healthcare Company UHS a Victim of Major Cyber Attack. And was it a DDoS Attack? Was it a DDoS attack against the United States? #2.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 5, 2023

Generative AI wild card The newest breakthrough in artificial intelligence technology is machine learning and generative AI. While machine learning tools are potent weapons against cyber threats, they need cybersecurity professionals to wield them properly.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 30, 2018

As the Industrial Internet of Things continues to transform the global industrial manufacturing and critical infrastructure industries, the threat of aggressive, innovative and dangerous cyber-attacks has become increasingly concerning. Related: The top 7 most worrisome cyber warfare attacks.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The defense and aviation industries are particularly exposed to cyber attacks and are adopting new countermeasures to harden their infrastructure and aircraft. “A group of Israeli cybersecurity firms, along with the Economy and Industry Ministry, has set up a new cyber consortium for the aviation industry.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 15, 2019

With this seamless interaction of the latest IoT technologies, “smart cities” are redefining the way we live and work. There’s just one problem…these massive, radical, interconnected technology systems also raise serious privacy and security concerns. appeared first on Data Security Blog | Thales eSecurity.

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BH Consulting

JULY 13, 2023

The 51-page report goes into detail on the threat landscape, risks to key sectors and supply chain risks. The National Cyber Security Centre, which led a broad steering group to develop the report, also released a useful infographic summing up the main points.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Coalition, a cyber insurance company, recently released a report detailing the categories of cyber attacks as well as the cause behind the attacks for the first half of 2020. The number one type of cyber incident so far this year is ransomware. The company says that ransomware accounted for 41% of cyber claims.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 6, 2024

Traditionally, cybersecurity has been a reactive game: We respond to cyber threats as they arise, analyze the incidents, add pertinent information to “deny lists”, and update stakeholders on “what happened.” That's where technologies like protective DNS come in. It may sound difficult, but change always sounds hard at first.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

banking regulators must hire and train more examiners with technology expertise to give more useful cyber security recommendations to small and mid-sized banks. The first part is the “Inherent Risk Profile,” which catalogues an institution’s technology and connection types and other facets of its risk characteristics.

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