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34 Most Common Types of Network Security Protections

eSecurity Planet

Whether you’re operating a global enterprise network or a small family business, your network’s security needs to be optimized with tools, teams, and processes to protect customer data and valuable business assets. Also read: What is Network Security?

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Zero Trust Speeds Ransomware Response, Illumio-Bishop Fox Test Finds

eSecurity Planet

From mass production of cheap malware to ransomware as a service (RaaS) , cyber criminals have industrialized cybercrime, and a new HP Wolf Security report warns that cybercriminals are adapting advanced persistent threat (APT) tactics too. Also read: Why You Need to Tune EDR to Secure Your Environment.

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MY TAKE: SMBs can do much more to repel ransomware, dilute disinformation campaigns

The Last Watchdog

However, at this moment in history, two particularly worrisome types of cyber attacks are cycling up and hitting local government entities hard: ransomware sieges and election tampering. population 12,046, paid $460,000, respectively, for ransomware decryption keys. Ransomware attacks are trendy again,” Weller told me. “If

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Volt Typhoon Disrupts US Organizations, CISA Issues Alerts

eSecurity Planet

How Volt Typhoon Attacks The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has revealed the complexities of Volt Typhoon’s cyberattacks, listing their typical activities into four steps: reconnaissance, initial access, lateral movement, and potential impact. Read the common types of network security solutions next.

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Indictment, Lawsuits Revive Trump-Alfa Bank Story

Krebs on Security

In October 2016, media outlets reported that data collected by some of the world’s most renowned cybersecurity experts had identified frequent and unexplained communications between an email server used by the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank , one of Russia’s largest financial institutions. With few exceptions, the U.S.

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SOC 2025: Detection/Analytics

Security Boulevard

It turns out analytics aren’t a separate thing; they are part of every security thing. That’s right, analytics drive endpoint security offerings. Cloud security products? Network security detection? Once you have internal and external data collected and aggregated, you analyze the data to identify the attacks.

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Risky Business Aging critical infrastructure networks and advanced attacks

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Operating the country’s largest refined products pipeline, Colonial Pipeline was brought to its knees over the weekend by a ransomware attack by cybercriminal gang, DarkSide. Data Manipulation. Many breaches are all about data collection, which appears to be what happened in the case of Colonial Pipeline. The Ugly Truth.