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Pharmaceutical giant Cencora discloses a data breach

Security Affairs

formerly known as AmerisourceBergen, is an American drug wholesale company and a contract research organization that was formed by the merger of Bergen Brunswig and AmeriSource in 2001. Cencora, Inc. The Company had $238.6 billion in revenue for fiscal year 2022 and had approximately 44,000 employees.

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National Cybersecurity Alliance advocates ‘shared responsibility’ for securing the Internet

The Last Watchdog

The National Cyber Security Alliance is a non-profit group, underwritten by the top tech companies and biggest banks, that has been out there since 2001 promoting best practices and supplying programs to engrain this mindset in our society. They built a very robust group of committed cybersecurity professionals in their own businesses.

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Top VC Firms in Cybersecurity of 2022

eSecurity Planet

Achieving funding is no simple task, and cybersecurity entrepreneurs have a difficult path competing in a complex and competitive landscape. Luckily for cybersecurity startups, there’s no shortage of interest in tomorrow’s next big security vendors. Investments in cybersecurity more than doubled from $12 billion to $29.5

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Russians Shut Down Huge Card Fraud Ring

Krebs on Security

Cybersecurity experts say the raid included the charging of a major carding kingpin thought to be tied to dozens of carding shops and to some of the bigger data breaches targeting western retailers over the past decade. In 2006, Stroganov and an associate Gerasim Silivanon (a.k.a.

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The strengths and weaknesses of different VPN protocols

Security Affairs

First released in 2001, the OpenVPN protocol has become one of the most popular and widely used protocols. Susan Alexandra is is a cybersecurity and privacy enthusiast. Super-fast Easy to set up and use Nearly all platforms support the protocol. About the author: Susan Alexandra.

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Vladimir Putin ‘s computers still run Windows XP, Media reports

Security Affairs

“Windows XP, released in 2001, was the last Microsoft operating system given the green light for use on official Russian government computers, the Open Media website reported, citing defence ministry documents.” Microsoft Windows 10 is only allowed only for government systems that don’t manage secret information.

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MY TAKE: The back story on the convergence, continuing evolution of endpoint security

The Last Watchdog

No one in cybersecurity refers to “antivirus” protection any more. In 1990, Florin and Mariuca Talpes parlayed a $300 stake borrowed from a relative into a company which would become Bitdefender in 2001. This designation change unfolded a few years back.

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