eSecurity Planet

APRIL 12, 2024

If you or your business handles sensitive data, operates in regulated industries, or suffers from repeated cybersecurity threats, it’s time to evaluate the need for DLP strategies. Tailor Your DLP Policy This approach begins with a thorough examination of the types of data that your business handles.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2021

A roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, March 2021. The clothes retailer revealed a data theft which included its customer's full names, home addresses, email addresses, and partial debitcredit card details.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 18, 2024

It’s a scalable and cost-effective storage solution for businesses offered through a subscription service. When assessing the overall security of cloud storage and choosing a solution tailored to your business, it helps to determine its features, potential risks, security measures, and other considerations.

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LRQA Nettitude Labs

JULY 5, 2023

With little in the way of regulation and standard security methodologies in the space, almost daily reports highlighting vulnerabilities or logic flaws that lead to less than ideal responses. This has been echoed by the news that OpenAI have announced that their first international office outside the US is to be opened in London.

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BH Consulting

JUNE 8, 2021

If Irish people outside the cybersecurity industry hadn’t heard of ransomware before last month, chances are they have now. On Friday 14 May, the Health Service Executive shut down its IT systems in response to a “human operated” ransomware attack. Then came news that the Department of Health was hit by a similar incident.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Experts believe Artificial intelligence (AI) could introduce new cybersecurity concerns, and that the upcoming 5G network could pose new risks as well. Information Risk Management (IRM) recently published its 2019 Risky Business Report. AI often makes it easier to take care of that responsibility without unnecessary delays.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Like any other digital machine, backup systems are vulnerable to data loss and compromise. From the rooftops, industry analysts shout, “Move your backups offline and away from production environments!” Backups are a critical component of any enterprise cybersecurity posture, but they are not an airtight strategy.

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Digital Shadows

AUGUST 17, 2021

We’re talking about the email attack variety. But, never mind the dozens of other reports and white papers about phishing that come out every year from security industry leaders, let’s take a look at the 2021 Verizon DBIR. What is Phish(ing)? No, not the band , unless you’re really into jam bands.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 4, 2023

Key CWPP features Checks conformity with industry standards and regulatory requirements by carrying out security configuration evaluations, audits, reporting, and creating compliance reports. The best CWPP products are scalable, flexible, and responsive to changing demands in dynamic cloud settings.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 18, 2023

IaaS involves virtualized computing resources over the internet, with users responsible for securing the operating system, applications, data, and networks. Organizations must customize their security measures to the unique characteristics and shared responsibility models of the cloud service model they have selected.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

After receiving input from industry experts and doing my own analysis of the year’s driving forces, I identified five major cybersecurity trends. Industry experts see that AI will require governance action, cause learning pains, and will be used to both improve and attack cybersecurity.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

However, to plan the phases properly, organizations need to first understand the nature of DDoS attacks and why attackers use them. Then, with the how and why noted and a plan in place, they can then examine their resources and determine if some aspects of the plan might be more effective when outsourced to DDoS vendors.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 30, 2024

As businesses expect immediate data access, slow speed and delays pose dangers, possibly exposing data in transit. Extended delays in transmission allow malicious actors to intercept or compromise data, risking its security and integrity. Regular reviews, enhanced analytics, and incident response methods improve security.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 6, 2023

Whether deployed by ransomware groups or individuals via ransomware as a service (RaaS) , the most common method of ransomware deployment is a phishing email. The victim is sent an email with an attachment, and once they click on the link, the malware file downloads. There are, however, some industries at higher risk than others.

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Spinone

MAY 8, 2020

Never has there been a more dangerous time for your business and your data. The threat landscape for businesses today is filled with many different security threats and attack vectors used by hackers and other malicious individuals. How can your business minimize the risk of a cyberattack on your business-critical data?

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Until recently, I was fairly active on Twitter , regularly tweeting to more than 350,000 followers about important security news and stories here. It emerges that email marketing giant Mailchimp got hacked. Twitter acknowledges that it was relieved of phone numbers and email addresses for 5.4 million users.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 6, 2021

Let's look at the attack through the company's eyes, as it explains what happened, what it was doing during the incident response, and what is coming next. Many managed service provides (MSPs) use Kaseya's VSA to secure their clients, most of which are small and medium-sized businesses. The ransomware attack target: Kaseya software.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 20, 2023

As more businesses embrace hybrid cloud models to cater to their different computing demands, safeguarding the boundary between these environments has become critically important, making hybrid cloud security a top priority for ensuring protection, compliance, and resilience in an ever-changing digital ecosystem.

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Cisco Security

JULY 14, 2021

It’s popping up everywhere from the nightly news to the G7 Summit. And once they’ve found their way into your business and encrypted your data and files, ransomware operators will demand substantial sums of money to restore them. For example, they will compromise backup systems so that administrators cannot use them to restore data.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 6, 2021

Let's look at the attack through the company's eyes, as it explains what happened, what it was doing during the incident response, and what is coming next. Many managed service provides (MSPs) use Kaseya's VSA to secure their clients, most of which are small and medium-sized businesses. The ransomware attack target: Kaseya software.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Ransomware is everywhere these days, striking fear into the hearts of IT and business managers alike. Email was the main method of spreading malware in organizations (58%), followed by compromise of computers, servers and network equipment (33%). All this adds up to bad news for IT teams in just about every vertical.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Real-time monitoring is made possible via auditing and logging, which helps in incident response and threat identification. Having a response plan for security incidents is essential. Develop a robust error handling mechanism that logs errors without revealing confidential data and responses.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Multi-cloud is a cloud computing strategy that enables businesses to run their applications and services across multiple private and public cloud platforms, so securing multi-cloud environments is a complicated task. A clear understanding of responsibilities is essential for effective and efficient multi-cloud security.

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BH Consulting

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Titled ‘Women in Security’, it will use storytelling techniques and interviews with respected industry professionals and experts. In a busy month, Valerie has also been chosen by the European Data Protection Board as one of its support pool of experts.). For your incident response planning: questions that always get asked in a crisis.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 10, 2021

or nearly 150 million gallons – an amount that the trucking, rail and ship industries can’t match despite emergency orders easing limitations, thus putting pressure on Colonial to resolve the crisis before it cripples the East Coast. incident response plan (we have a plan and it’s tested, no?), We do have backups?

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 25, 2022

William Bangham: Judy, the FBI said a group known as Dark Side is responsible for this cyber attack, which used what is known as ransomware ransomware is malicious computer code that blocks and owners access to their computer network until a ransom gets paid. If your MSP gets compromised, you're just a user, right?

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

The 2023 vendor surveys arriving this quarter paint a picture of a cybersecurity landscape under attack, with priority issues affecting deployment, alert response, and exposed vulnerabilities. Passwordless authentication : Eliminates passwords in favor of other types of authentication such as passkeys, SSO, biometrics, or email access.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Below are comments from tech industry experts on how companies can keep themselves and their employees safe moving forward. Businesses need to start implementing more safeguarding protocols and make cybersecurity training not just accessible for all employees, but a basic part of onboarding.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 2, 2023

He’s been around the hacking scene since the late 1990s, he knows a few people, and he has contributed a lot to the industry. And we both know people in the industry. But while it was raging, it was amazing compromised computers, creating a botnet that attacked one target: The White House. Mine was 2000.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 2, 2020

After 11 months of a very intensive process culminating in many months of exclusivity with a party I believed would ultimately be the purchaser of the service, unexpected changes to their business model made the deal infeasible. The primary mandate of an Information Memorandum is to motivate potential investment into your business.

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Webroot

MARCH 4, 2024

These algorithms analyze existing text and generate coherent, context-aware responses. From automated customer service chats to personalized email drafts, generative text models enhance efficiency and convenience. Example: Chatbot: “Dear John, I hope this email finds you well. Your prompt response would be greatly appreciated.”

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 8, 2021

This is not a new problem and with its increasing frequency it’s important for our leaders to understand how profitable an industry RaaS has become, and the risks they may be facing. Protecting unstructured data will likely be one of the biggest challenges in the new year. If you can’t see it, you can’t govern it.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 21, 2023

ChatGPT—the much-hyped, artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot that provides human-like responses from an enormous knowledge base—has been embraced practically everywhere, from private sector businesses to K–12 classrooms. Or is it a unicorn that’s going to solve every business, academic, and creative problem?

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In January, ESET discovered a new wiper, deployed in an attack in Ukraine via the Active Directory GPO. In June, Microsoft published a report on a threat actor named Cadet Blizzard, responsible for WhisperGate and other wipers targeting Ukrainian government agencies early in 2022.

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