Cisco Security

AUGUST 30, 2021

An API enables two pieces of software to communicate with each other. You might open a web interface to access email or launch your favorite social media app to connect with friends. This massive explosion in device growth will increase reliance on APIs which brings increased security risk.

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SC Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

With that in mind, a newly announced three-year research partnership between the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and Georgia State University’s Evidence-Based Cybersecurity Research Group (EBCS) will examine the tactics and techniques that fraudsters are leveraging to abuse online payments. The Federal Reserve of Atlanta.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 6, 2022

Many organizations are already struggling to combat cybersecurity threats from ransomware purveyors and state-sponsored hacking groups, both of which tend to take days or weeks to pivot from an opportunistic malware infection to a full blown data breach. In fact, the group often announces its hacks on social media.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 17, 2023

So they’re often unprepared when a nation state APT choses to focus on them. A lot of SMBs do not have security operations centers or SOCs. A lot of SMBs do not have security operations centers or SOCs. They have IT contractors who can provision laptops and maintain a certain level of compliance and security.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Users enjoyed using them to compose poems and lyrics in the style of famous artists (which left Nick Cave, for example, decidedly unimpressed ), researchers debated blowing up data centers to prevent super AI from unleashing Armageddon, while security specialists persuaded a stubborn chatbot to give them phone-tapping and car-jacking instructions.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

that has been tracking down individuals engaged in unauthorized “SIM swaps” — a complex form of mobile phone fraud that is often used to steal large amounts of cryptocurrencies and other items of value from victims. Samy Tarazi is a sergeant with the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s office and a REACT supervisor.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

So we include other telemetry that seeks to authenticate that the entity logging in is who they say they are. I’m just not convinced that a fingerprint or an image of my face is secure enough. The researchers predict that soon it'll be hard to tell a human user at the keyboard, or at the mouse, from a bot or AI-driven entity.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

Network security protects and monitors the links and the communications within the network using a combination of hardware, software, and enforced policies. Networks and network security comes in a wide range of complexity to fit the wide range of needs. For a more general overview consider reading: What is Network Security?

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Spinone

MAY 8, 2020

The threat landscape for businesses today is filled with many different security threats and attack vectors used by hackers and other malicious individuals. What are the types of cyber security threats? Never has there been a more dangerous time for your business and your data. First of all, what is a cyberattack? What Do Hackers Want?

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

transport layer security) has long been the standard. Ultimately, FDE is about securing an enterprise environment’s endpoints. Ultimately, FDE is about securing an enterprise environment’s endpoints. FileVault is easily accessible from Apple’s System Preferences and Security & Privacy configurations. Apple FileVault.

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SecureList

JUNE 15, 2022

Division of labor. Money has been and remains the main motivator for cybercriminals. The most widespread techniques of monetizing cyberattacks include selling stolen databases, extortion (using ransomware) and carding. to perform specific steps of a multiphase attack). to perform specific steps of a multiphase attack). Types of initial access.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 10, 2021

That’s perhaps because of a dedicated group of hackers who are working to improve automotive security. Vamosi: Welcome to the hacker mind an original podcast from for all secure, it's about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. We haven’t seen many attacks on our smart cars.

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Spinone

MARCH 20, 2019

Despite all the technological solutions to any problem in today’s world, there is always the human-factor to consider. This is especially true in the world of security. The best security defenses can be totally compromised by a single individual making the wrong decision, either accidentally or knowingly.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The ScarCruft group (also known as APT37 or Temp.Reaper) is a nation-state sponsored APT actor we first reported in 2016. ScarCruft is known to target North Korean defectors, journalists who cover North Korea-related news and government organizations related to the Korean Peninsula, between others. Contact: intelreports@kaspersky.com.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

He also talks about his infosec journey hacking cryptocurrencies, joining the Digital Defense Service and CISA, and helping secure the 2020 presidential election… all before the age of 22. Vamosi: That's Chris Krebs, former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency under the US Department of Homeland Security.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

He also talks about his infosec journey hacking cryptocurrencies, joining the Digital Defense Service and CISA, and helping secure the 2020 presidential election… all before the age of 22. Vamosi: That's Chris Krebs, former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency under the US Department of Homeland Security.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 8, 2022

According to Richard Bejtlich’s paper on the topic , ‘the United States Air Force coined the phrase ‘advanced persistent threat’ in 2006 because teams working within the service needed a way to communicate with counterparts in the unclassified public world.’ A Brief History of APTs. From then on, APT became a heavily used, marketable term.

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