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Quantum computing brings new security risks: How to protect yourself

CyberSecurity Insiders

The average cost of a data breach reached an all-time high in 2021, and the attack vector grows larger by the minute. Most of our current online privacy protocols utilize cryptography to maintain privacy and data integrity. Even now, our cybersecurity climate is getting hotter. What is quantum computing?

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MY TAKE: Memory hacking arises as a go-to tactic to carry out deep, persistent incursions

The Last Watchdog

Related: We’re in the midst of ‘cyber Pearl Harbor’ Peel back the layers of just about any sophisticated, multi-staged network breach and you’ll invariably find memory hacking at the core. A network breach begins, of course, with an incursion. One tried-and-true incursion method pivots off social engineering.

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Cybersecurity threats: what awaits us in 2023?

SecureList

The economic downturn (caused by energy prices, inflation, sanctions, etc.) Businesses most at risk are aerospace and defense contractors, as well as critical infrastructure operators (utilities such as water, electricity, and Internet, but also hospitals and operators of large cyber-physical systems such as dams).

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Advanced threat predictions for 2024

SecureList

APT targeting turns toward satellite technologies, producers and operators The only known case of an attack utilizing satellite technologies that happened in recent years was the KA-SAT network hack of 2022. They advertise on dark web platforms and employ various techniques, including malware, phishing, and other social engineering methods.

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Cyber CEO: Cybersecurity in 2021 – What We’ve Learned So Far

Herjavec Group

I’ve always believed that the best way to build a strong cybersecurity program is to utilize all the data. Threat actors have developed social engineering approaches that leverage the uncertainty and chaos of the pandemic in order to deliver their malicious software. In the U.S.,