Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2022

Cisco announced that it will not release updates to fix the CVE-2022-20825 flaw in end-of-life Small Business RV routers. Cisco will not release updates to address the CVE-2022-20825 RCE flaw in end-of-life Small Business RV routers and encourage upgrading to newer models. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Yet, I’m certainly not immune to the clutter and skewed perspectives these tech giants throw at me on an hourly basis — as they focus myopically on monetizing my digital footprints. I don’t know what I’d do without my tech tools, but I also have a foreboding sense that I spend way too much with them.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Based on responses from IDCs 2022 Worldwide CEO Survey and supporting blog post The CEO Tech Agenda in a Digital-First World , every part of an organization must be reviewed to ensure it is serving a digital-first customer model. Nearly 50% of CEOs report needing help with building their digital-first strategy. Cybersecurity.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Working with us, Candela was able to switch from a one-time model of device sales to a usage-based, recurring revenue model. Behnam Tabrizi wrote a fantastic piece for Harvard Business Review encouraging companies to Put Employees at the Center of Your Post-Pandemic Digital Strategy. Behnam Tabrizi, Harvard Business Review.

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Cisco Security

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In the first volume of this study , we found that , a cross the 25 security practices we asked about, five of them stood out from the rest: proactive tech refresh, well-integrated technology, timel y incident response , prompt disaster recovery, and acc urate threat dete cti on. . 2) Achieving Well-Integrated Tech.

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Jane Frankland

OCTOBER 31, 2023

C-suites across all industries, from traditional finance to the latest “unicorns” emerging in the fintech industry, are facing a formidable challenge: how to protect their business and customer data against growing cyber threats. This is unsurprising considering today’s challenging business landscape.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 21, 2022

The transition away from SHA-1 installments was very slow, although all tech vendors had issued concrete steps on how to mitigate to the SHA-2 family of hashing algorithms. For businesses still using the broken SHA-1, they were facing serious risks , including: Increased possibility of a collision or man-in-the-middle attack.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 28, 2017

About 93% of visitors to my blog this year have been from other parts of the world (most notably the US and UK) so the idea of a sunny Xmas is foreign to most. I share a bit about what it's like down here at this time of year before getting into some actual tech content. Happy New Year folks! References.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

However, as technology has become more complex and pervasive, the CIO's role has expanded to encompass a broader range of responsibilities, including: Strategic IT leadership: CIOs are now expected to be strategic leaders, driving the organization's digital transformation agenda and aligning IT initiatives with business goals.

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BH Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Separately, CyberScoop has looked at how the rules will change for EU citizens interacting with big tech companies, compared to their American counterparts. Business Email Compromise: a scam on the rise Business email compromise (BEC) scams are raking in more cash for fraudsters, who are evolving their tactics to avoid detection.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 13, 2022

Tech support scams follow a simple business model that has not changed much over the years. We see countless such campaigns and block them indiscriminately to protect our customers from being defrauded by a fraudulent tech support agent over the phone. After all, why change a recipe that continues to yield large profits.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 26, 2021

I agreed to give the company feedback about how they’re executing their business model. Hotspot, TunnelBear and other new services made digital tunnels readily accessible to consumers thus enabling them to hide their IP address from the tech giants’ – and Uncle Sam’s — snooping. percent ten years ago.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 4, 2023

These AI tools are based on Large Language Models (LLM). UK’s NCSC explains in a blog that an LLM is an algorithm trained on a large amount of text-based data, typically scraped from the open internet. The algorithm analyzes the relationships between different words and turns that into a probability model.

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Duo's Security Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Organizations that claimed to have a mature implementation of zero trust were 2X more likely to report excelling across desired outcomes such as greater executive confidence (47%), peer buy-in (45%), keeping up with the business (46%) and creating a security culture.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 13, 2019

There are already more IoT devices than human beings on the planet, according to tech industry research firm Gartner. Another tech industry consultancy, IDC, forecasts worldwide IoT spending will hit a record $745 billion in 2019 , some 15.4% That’s when we will start paying attention as individual citizens and small business owners.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2023

Abandoned Eval PHP WordPress plugin abused to backdoor websites CISA adds MinIO, PaperCut, and Chrome bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog At least 2 critical infrastructure orgs breached by North Korea-linked hackers behind 3CX attack American Bar Association (ABA) suffered a data breach,1.4

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Centraleyes

MAY 14, 2024

Mark is a product manager at a tech startup facing a similar issue regarding the platform’s recommendation algorithm. The NIST AI RMF principally guides managing the risks associated with AI models and algorithms, focusing on risk assessment, mitigation, and monitoring during AI implementation.

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Daniel Miessler

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Threat modeling is a superpower. And not just for applications, or networks, or a business—but for life. This type of threat modeling is a life skill, not just a technical skill. This type of threat modeling is a life skill, not just a technical skill. Using Everyday Threat Modeling includes being able to do both.

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Duo's Security Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Some recent research has suggested that some businesses, particularly small to medium-sized ones, are terminating their policies altogether due to budget constraints. In fact, according to Spiceworks , ‘due to budget constraints, about 30% of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) discontinued their cyber insurance contracts in 2021’.

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NetSpi Executives

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

This real-time visibility increases overall efficiency and frees security teams to focus on complex, high-priority business initiatives.” We’re seeing that now in large language models being used to identify how to ‘hack’ a network or organization, and Microsoft is using that model in the development of its many ‘CoPilots’.”

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NopSec

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

This method fails to take into account critical broader environmental context such as: Threat levels Asset criticality Countermeasures and controls in place Business impacts This lack of context renders this scanner-centric approach to exposure management as fundamentally flawed. Stay tuned with our #ProactiveCyber blog series.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2022

If the technology were to become unavailable, the resulting business impact could be mitigated with cyber insurance. Even if businesses invest in cybersecurity protections, as they increasingly do, security controls are not impenetrable. Small businesses are disproportionately impacted. Ransom demands continue to increase.

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Centraleyes

APRIL 23, 2024

In navigating the digital terrain, businesses must carefully weigh the potential benefits against the challenges posed by emerging technologies. While adopting new technologies often promises efficiency gains and returns on investment, businesses must maintain vigilance in navigating potential challenges and disruptions that may arise.

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Elie

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

This blog post shed light on the inner workings of the ransomsphere economics and exposes which cybercriminal groups are the biggest earners. This is the second blog post in my series about ransomware economics. previous blog post about our methodology. Ransomware is a multi-million dollar business. The first post.

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Centraleyes

JANUARY 1, 2024

This development has not gone unnoticed by high-profile figures in the tech industry, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Tesla’s CEO, Elon Musk. These technologies empower businesses to enhance risk assessment, regulatory compliance, and threat mitigation efforts. Here’s how AI plays a pivotal role: 1.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 22, 2019

And in order to guarantee an audience big enough to make their ads profitable, big tech has developed a business model designed to do one thing above all: addict. They’ve designed platforms that extract massive amounts of personal data without telling consumers, then sell that data without consumers’ permission.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The blurring of infrastructure as more tech stack components become a mix of on-prem, cloud-based, and managed services further complicate matters. Abuse the Shared Responsibilities Model. If an external business partner gets owned and the attacker moves into your environment and starts wreaking havoc, guess what? Wait, what?

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SC Magazine

MAY 3, 2021

Yu has contributed to cybersecurity models in his own right, having developed the Cyber Defense Matrix that was described by one tech leader as the “must-have playbook in modern information security programs.” Yu said in a blog he penned upon joining JupiterOne that he actually didn’t want to become a CISO.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2019

Cisco released security updates to address security flaws in several products including Small Business RV320/RV325 routers and hackers are already targeting them. The tech giant addressed two serious issues in Cisco’s Small Business RV320 and RV325 routers. ” reads a blog post published by Mursch on Badpackets.

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Jane Frankland

MARCH 24, 2023

In this blog I’m sharing a few suggestions for women. #1. By improving yourself professionally and personally, you’ll always be leading by example and becoming an effective and authentic role model. In cybersecurity, sometimes I’ve seen technical women snub women who work on the human side of security or business.

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Jane Frankland

MARCH 24, 2023

In this blog I’m sharing a few suggestions for women. #1. By improving yourself professionally and personally, you’ll always be leading by example and becoming an effective and authentic role model. In cybersecurity, sometimes I’ve seen technical women snub women who work on the human side of security or business.

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BH Consulting

MARCH 8, 2024

We’re taking our own inspiration from the concept of ‘if you see it, you can be it’ – that highlighting female role models in these fields will inspire others. The situation is improving, and the proof is that we don’t have to look hard to find those doing outstanding work in security and data protection.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

In a previous blog post ( [link] ) we explored the relationship between GPDR and applications in the cloud. Today, Zero Trust, is a tech buzz word heard often, but what is the thought process behind it? Today, Zero Trust, is a tech buzz word heard often, but what is the thought process behind it?

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

LockBit's operation's policy states "It is forbidden to encrypt institutions where damage to the files could lead to death, such as cardiology centers, neurosurgical departments, maternity hospitals and the like, that is, those institutions where surgical procedures on high-tech equipment using computers may be performed."

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2020

Related: How the Middle East has advanced mobile security regulations Over the past couple of decades, meaningful initiatives to improve online privacy and security, for both companies and consumers, incrementally gained traction in the tech sector and among key regulatory agencies across Europe, the Middle East and North America.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 21, 2022

–( BUSINESS WIRE )– Anomali , a leader in intelligence-driven extended detection and response (XDR) cybersecurity solutions, today published its Anomali Cybersecurity Insights Report 2022. Blog: [link]. manager level or higher and have influence on data security solutions) or a business perspective (i.e.,

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Jane Frankland

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Over the course of a day, we explored how the IT and security landscape has shifted exponentially over the past 24 months, and why cybersecurity vigilance is a fundamental priority and necessity for all businesses. We’ve also seen tech teams get more out of the tools they’ve procured and implement them to a fuller potential.

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