The Last Watchdog

APRIL 11, 2022

This return on investment is bringing in new players, and the ransomware monster continues to grow…and we’re not ready to fight it off. Small-to-medium-sized businesses make up 99 percent of all businesses in the United States , and are a big ransomware target. However, starting with a strong security foundation goes a long way.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

However, basic cybersecurity tools and practices, like patching , strong passwords , and multi-factor authentication (MFA), “can prevent 80 to 90% of cyberattacks,” said Anne Neuberger, deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging technologies, during a White House press conference in Sept. Types of Cyberattacks. Ransomware.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 25, 2024

By Frank Picarello, Go-to-Market Advisor for Judy Security Managed IT Services continue to evolve. The nature of the SMB needs, security requirements, compliance demands, use of technology, shifting workloads to the cloud, and hybrid work operating models are evolving both compute infrastructure as well as the business reliance on IT.

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Duo's Security Blog

MARCH 2, 2022

Multi-factor authentication is one of the best ways to thwart bad actors using stolen credentials — but it’s not foolproof. Here’s how bad actors are circumventing MFA protection, and 11 ways Duo can help you strengthen your security posture beyond standard MFA. Strongly consider testing WebAuthn Security Keys functionality.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 1, 2022

Leveraging a managed service rather than buying a security point solution gives your SMB fixed-cost access to enterprise-grade technology and expertise you might otherwise not be able to afford. Fact: Compliant doesn’t mean secure . Fact: Compliant doesn’t mean secure . Fact: Cybersecurity fatigue is a problem .

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 15, 2022

The common question most organizations grapple with is – how to enhance application security designed for web apps to APIs and API security? WAAP (Web Application and API Protection) is a set of cloud-based security services specially designed to protect web applications and APIs. API Security Breaches are Piling Up.

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2023

Email-based threats have become increasingly sophisticated, how is changing the Email Security Landscape? Recently, VIPRE Security Group published their Email Security in 2023 report , where they shared insights on the development of email-based threats and how they can impact organizations. It’s a trend that’s growing.

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SecureList

MAY 6, 2024

Amid the current threat landscape, Kaspersky has conducted a comprehensive analysis of the financial risks, pinpointing key trends and providing recommendations to effectively mitigate risks and enhance security posture. Agent was the most active mobile malware family, making up 38% of all Android attacks.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

From the very beginning of the cloud computing era, security has been the biggest concern among enterprises considering the public cloud. In addition, 95 percent of survey respondents confirmed that they are extremely to moderately concerned about public cloud security. What is cloud security?

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Yet, in bringing us here, APIs have also spawned a vast new tier of security holes. API vulnerabilities are ubiquitous and multiplying; they’re turning up everywhere. Yet, API security risks haven’t gotten the attention they deserve. Thus security-proofing APIs has become a huge challenge.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 25, 2021

billion IoT devices active across the world – a figure that is expected to grow to 75 billion by 2025. There are several steps – from prototype to production – businesses can take to speed up their IoT projects (no matter what the application or device might be). 4 Consider how you secure your endpoints.

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IT Security Guru

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The insurance sector is battling its losses by increasing premiums – which have gone up by some 94% between 2019 and 2022 – creating the artificial impression that the sector is growing. The industry is not seeing increased take up rates or expanded coverage – just increased revenues from higher premiums.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 12, 2022

Is The Cost Of Predictive Cyber Security Worth The Investment? In the early 1990s, the Internet industry needed to move packets as fast as possible because some marketing genius came up with the idea that everyone could have “Unlimited Internet Access” for $9.95 Cybersecurity Events Becoming More Predictable ? per month.

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Duo's Security Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

With growing concerns around security, ransomware and retail breaches, there are a few key considerations that retailers should keep in mind when it comes to protecting their organizations. Dollars earmarked for innovating sales, like for online shopping, now had to compete with securing the remote workforce. million to $4.24

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 13, 2023

For every head lopped of off the ransomware Hydra, it feels like three more grow in its place. The explanation, then, likely resides in a combination of facts: Ransomware attacks are up overall for all sectors Healthcare is easy to attack (Large number of weak points due to use of legacy systems, third-party vendors, etc).

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Ponemon chairman and founder Larry Ponemon said in a statement that “Most of the IT and security professionals regard their organizations as vulnerable to these attacks,” and that growing adoption of technologies such as cloud, mobile , big data , and the Internet of Things (IoT) are adding to that risk.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

Virtual private networks have been around for decades, but the past year forced many organizations to expand their use to keep up with growing telework trends. In response, criminal and state-backed hacking groups stepped up their own exploitation of the technology as well.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

A new approach to asset management is required to address the lack of visibility and security risks therein. Continuous real time monitoring of assets and any potential security risks that might affect them is essential. Let’s not forget the growing knowledge gap. What is cybersecurity asset management.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2020

Cloud security firm Aqua Security uncovered a hacking campaign carried out during the past months, hackers are scanning the Internet for Docker servers running API ports exposed without a password. ” reads the post published by Aqua Security. “The spre. ssh/config,bash_history, /.ssh/known_hosts, Pierluigi Paganini.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 17, 2021

There’s a lot going on in the Mac security world lately. Over the last few months, Apple has ramped up security efforts across its platforms. But instead of welcoming allied assistance via third-party security vendors, Apple is closing the gate. Apple security paradigm shift. A crack in the Mac door.

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Herjavec Group

JUNE 25, 2021

Business leaders now have to re-assess their security toolbox and look for stronger protections in the new digital landscape of their companies. It’s about planning for the unexpected, adapting to the current environment, and implementing security-driven business strategies. Great follow-up from the question above – IAM is key!

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Cisco Security

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Scott Heider is a manager within the Cisco Security Visibility and Incident Command team that reports to the company’s Security & Trust Organization. Assessing the Attack Surface and Security Risks. Those considerations further complicate security and must be assessed for threats and vulnerabilities.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

As the volume and severity of cyber attacks grow, the need for cybersecurity risk management grows with it. Setting Up Your Risk Management System. Before setting up a cybersecurity risk management system, the enterprise needs to determine what assets it needs to protect and prioritize. What IT Assets Need Protection?

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 8, 2022

When organizations implement Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance ( DMARC ), they expect to tighten email security and protect against spoofing and other spam email attacks. See the Top Secure Email Gateway Solutions. To set up DMARC, an organization publishes a text file with DNS registrars.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

And as the Internet of Things continues to grow, the number of devices with APIs is only going to increase. All of these APIs have one thing in common: they need to be secure. Unfortunately, many devs and ops engineers don't view API security as a priority - and that's a mistake. Or something else entirely.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Zero-day exploits have come under increased scrutiny after malware vendors including FinFisher, the NSO Group, Hacking Team, and others demonstrated a growing market for custom, paid-for exploits. Our increasingly connected world ensures constantly growing impacts from zero days. 9 ) Attribution in a cyberattack can be challenging.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 4, 2022

Yet even as technology has changed, sending and receiving data remains a major vulnerability, ensuring encryption’s place as a foundational security practice. This adds a vital extra layer of security. The move is evidence of a growing demand to get ahead of the quantum computing threat. New Quantum Encryption Standards.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 10, 2022

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. See the Best Zero Trust Security Solutions. Zero Trust Security Testing.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 6, 2021

But is Peloton safe and secure in your home? Recently, security researcher Jan Masters discovered that anyone could access personal information about millions of Peloton customers. "An But that just meant anyone could sign up with a monthly membership and get access to the API again.". But what did Peloton do about this?

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2022

In an alert issued this week , the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) cited a series of cyberattacks perpetrated against public and private Ukrainian organizations as tensions between Ukraine and Russia grow despite talks between U.S. Good Security Advice. Review Security in Light of Pandemic.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 27, 2022

We’re talking big, sophisticated businesses with up to a hundred employees— LockBit, BlackBasta, and AvosLocker are just a few of the RaaS gangs we cover in our monthly ransomware review. “This is run as a business,” says Mark Stockley, Security Evangelist at Malwarebytes.

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Veracode Security

APRIL 7, 2021

This is the eighth entry in the blog series on using Java Cryptography securely. The first few entries talked about architectural details , Cryptographically Secure Random Number Generators , encryption/decryption , and message digests. Note: Values in green are conservative secure configurations. Later we looked at What???s

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SC Magazine

JULY 8, 2021

Phishing scammers posing as customers are contacting live-chat support agents with phony issues or problems and tricking them into opening up malicious documents, according to an incident response expert who has observed a marked uptick in use of this tactic over the last two quarters. We should be implementing security checks at that stage.

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McAfee

OCTOBER 26, 2021

What cyber security threats should enterprises look out for in 2022? Skilled engineers and security architects from McAfee Enterprise and FireEye offer a preview of how the threatscape might look in 2022 and how these new or evolving threats could potentially impact the security of enterprises, countries, and civilians.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

Virtual Private Networks have been around for decades, but over the past year many organizations were forced to expand their use to keep up with growing telework trends. In response, criminal and state-backed hacking groups have stepped up their own exploitation of the technology as well.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 23, 2019

No wonder this threat keeps our client’s CISO and security teams up at night. Data Security: Airtight Backup If you don’t have a robust Data Loss Protection (DLP) plan, all your security strategy will fall apart. Ransomware attacks cost smaller companies an average of $713,000 per incident.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 7, 2021

This is the eighth entry in the blog series on using Java Cryptography securely. The first few entries talked about architectural details , Cryptographically Secure Random Number Generators , encryption/decryption , and message digests. Note: Values in green are conservative secure configurations. Later we looked at What???s

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