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8 IT security disasters: Lessons from cautionary examples

CSO Magazine

Anyone who follows cybersecurity is aware of the steady drumbeat of data breaches and attacks. Sign up for CSO newsletters. ]. 2012: Court Ventures gets social-engineered. Sign up for CSO newsletters. ]. 2012: Court Ventures gets social-engineered.

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Survey: Alarming Number of IT Professionals Told to Conceal Breaches

SecureWorld News

Imagine your company experienced a major data breach, but instead of notifying the appropriate parties and taking necessary actions, you were instructed to keep it quiet! was also leading the list in terms of the percentage of respondents who claimed they'd been told to keep a breach concealed (71%).

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BrandPost: Lessons in Security: School District Shares Pandemic Experiences

CSO Magazine

The education sector is a top target for cybercriminals, and faces “an unusually large percentage” of social engineering attacks, according to the 2021 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report. The coronavirus pandemic, which spurred many individuals to study and work remotely, added to the industry’s challenges.

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NEW TECH: Data Theorem helps inventory sprawling APIs — as the first step to securing them

The Last Watchdog

That’s how they’re going to transfer data in, hopefully, a secure channel to pass information back and forth with each other.”. However, APIs are also more frequently the source of data breaches and other cyber incidents. No one really knows exactly how many APIs are out there. And that’s just one phone. Postal Service.

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ChatGPT Security and Privacy Issues Remain in GPT-4

eSecurity Planet

In March, the company disclosed a data breach that exposed about 1.2% Those issues continue to exist in ChatGPT, and both can be tricked into creating ransomware , obfuscating malware , and other exploits, they said. But OpenAI has experienced some problems with its generative AI platform that could also apply to GPT-4.

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A Clear and Present Need: Bolster Your Identity Security with Threat Detection and Response

Duo's Security Blog

“It took nearly 11 months (328 days) to identity and contain data breaches resulting from stolen or compromised credentials.” – IBM’s Cost of Data Breach Report 2023 I recently came across a 2012 article from CSO Online , and realized that it has been more than 11 years since the phrase “Identity is the new perimeter” was coined!

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BrandPost: Secure Microsoft 365 with Reveal(x) 360 Network Detection and Response

CSO Magazine

Once an identity or set of credentials is compromised, any data they have access to is at risk and the identity can be used as part of a social engineering or spear-phishing attack to access more privileged credentials. To read this article in full, please click here