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Local U.S. Governments and Municipalities at Risk of Foreign Nation Cyber Attacks

Security Boulevard

Experts have warned that the Russia-Ukraine conflict poses an unprecedented cyber risk for U.S. organizations as well as State and local governments and municipalities. Governments and Municipalities at Risk of Foreign Nation Cyber Attacks appeared first on Security Boulevard. The post Local U.S.

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SolarWinds recovered from the last year’s massive Cyber Attack

CyberSecurity Insiders

SolarWinds, a software maker having 300,000 clients around the globe, was hit by a massive cyber attack in early 2020. And its staff detected it in November, after a security company named FireEye triggered a warning that the firm’s computer systems were operating under the control of hackers funded by a foreign nation from many days.

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Five Ways to Configure a SIEM for Accurate Threat Detection

eSecurity Planet

A security information and event management (SIEM) system is about as complicated as a security tool can get, pulling in log and threat data from a wide range of sources to look for signs of a cyber attack. That’s inevitably an ongoing process, with models having to be modified in response to new threats.

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Predict Cyber-attacks via digital twins

CyberSecurity Insiders

As many businesses transfer their resources to the cloud and the Internet of Things (IoT) becomes more prevalent, threat actors are increasingly interested in exploiting unprotected devices, networks, etc. That is where twinning innovation comes into play to improve cyber security. Digital twins can help assess Cyber threats.

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Attackers waited until holidays to hit US government

Malwarebytes

The government industry in the United States dealt with heavy hitting breaches against local, federal, and state government networks, primarily during the first quarter of 2021. Our telemetry revealed a small spike in a generic backdoor detection, known as Backdoor.Agent, during March of 2021, mainly focused in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Deepfake technology and its implications for the future of cyber-attacks

CyberSecurity Insiders

This ignores any of the groups which may serve as government agents and have more advanced training or better funding. Security teams and their companies have to stay abreast to the everchanging landscape and always be on guard for new attacks. Competing against these forces is, therefore, no easy task.

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Video: How ransomware and file-less cyber-attacks proliferate

Tech Republic Security

Cyberbit builds cybersecurity solutions for military, government, and enterprise organizations. CEO Adi Dar details the best practices for threat intelligence sharing and the repercussions of delayed threat detection.