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Cybersecurity Labeling of IoT Devices: Will It Happen in 2023?

SecureWorld News

consumers could have a set of cybersecurity labeling standards to protect their Internet of Things (IoT) devices as early as spring 2023 if the White House National Security Council has its way. The move ties in nicely with October being Cybersecurity Awareness Month. In February 2022, the U.S.

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News Alert: Utimaco finds regional disparities in consumers’ level of trust in digital security

The Last Watchdog

Just decades ago, the internet was something that could only be accessed from large, immobile personal computers. Auerbach In the US, respondents reported the highest levels of digital fraud from all sources, including banking and payments, Internet of Things (IoT) and Smart Cities.

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NEW TECH: This free tool can help gauge, manage third-party cyber risk; it’s called ‘VRMMM’

The Last Watchdog

Turn the corner into 2019 and we find Citigroup, CapitalOne, Wells Fargo and HSBC Life Insurance among a host of firms hitting the crisis button after their customers’ records turned up on a database of some 24 million financial and banking documents found parked on an Internet-accessible server — without so much as password protection.

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Oldsmar’s Cyber Attack Raises the Alarm for the Water Industry

Cisco Security

Someone on the Internet successfully accessed the computer controlling the chemicals used to treat drinking water for the city and changed the level of sodium hydroxide to 11,100 parts per million (ppm), a significant increase from the normal amount of 100 ppm. How did this industrial workstation become accessible from the Internet?

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Six existential threats posed by the future of 5G (Part Two)

CyberSecurity Insiders

With the introduction of lockdowns across the globe, our reliance on internet networks to work remotely, call relatives across seas, or even to take part in leisure activities via a screen has soared. billion active internet users worldwide. Notwithstanding this progress, the quality of the internet services provided varies greatly.

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Cybersecurity Awareness Month Blog Series: Using Technology to Safeguard the Nation’s Critical Infrastructure

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Much of today’s cybersecurity focuses on maintaining a perimeter defense — not letting malicious actors into the security boundary. Because this datacentric approach to cybersecurity is so effective, Congress established the CDM program to provide a strong, consistent cyber defense to protect more than 70 civilian agency networks.

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Post-Quantum Cryptography: Lessons Learned from SHA-1 Deprecation

Security Boulevard

Can the cybersecurity industry learn anything from the problems encountered with the move from the deprecated SHA-1 to the stronger and safer SHA-2 hashing algorithm? 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. Crypto-agility.