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GUEST ESSAY – Notable events in hacking history that helped transform cybersecurity assessment

The Last Watchdog

Phishing scams, malware, ransomware and data breaches are just some of the examples of cyberthreats that can devastate business operations and the protection of consumer information. military officials hired data analysts to crack the Japanese secret code known as JN-25. After the devastating blow of Pearl Harbor, U.S.

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50% of misconfigured containers hit by botnets in under an hour

SC Magazine

Assaf Morag, lead data analyst with Aqua’s Team Nautilus, said this discovery underscores the significance of detecting and fixing cloud misconfigurations promptly or preventing them from occurring before app deployment. “The According to the research, it takes five hours on average for the adversaries’ bots to scan a new honeypot.

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Could You 'Hear' a Cyberattack Hitting Your Organization?

SecureWorld News

Imagine if there was something similar in terms of threat detection, how much easier would that make a security analyst's job? When it comes to monitoring network traffic, the amount of data analysts have to comb through in a single day can be overwhelming, making it difficult to detect any abnormalities.

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Applying Heuristics in Cybersecurity

Approachable Cyber Threats

ePHI means high risk), or they could be decision rules we encode into algorithms, like those used in software for malware and virus detection (e.g. hooking keyboard drivers = malware). Data analysts aren’t immune to the ill effects of the recognition heuristic either. They may be implicit habits of thought (e.g.

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Indicators of compromise (IOCs): how we collect and use them

SecureList

This is the most precious source of intelligence as it provides unique and reliable data from trusted systems and technologies. Kaspersky’s private Threat Intelligence Portal (TIP), which is available to customers as a service, offers limited access to such in-house technical data. In other words, the concept of defense in depth.

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What the Arc Browser Story Reveals About the Future of Browser Security

Security Boulevard

A data analysts browser needs are fundamentally different from a graphic designers. Data loss prevention, phishing protection, and malware blocking should work the same way across all platforms. Join us on June 10 for a webinar on browser data loss protection and GenAI tools.

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News alert: SpyCloud accelerates supply chain risk analysis with new ‘IDLink’ correlation capability

The Last Watchdog

SpyCloud Investigations is a powerful cybercrime and identity threat investigation solution used by analysts and investigators to discover and act on threats by navigating the world’s largest repository of recaptured breach, malware, and phishing data.

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