eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The National Security Agency (NSA) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have released guidance and best practices for securing virtual private network (VPN) solutions. What might be most striking about the document is how many security steps and solutions it takes to properly secure VPN connections.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2021

Hancitor became another commodity malware which partnered with ransomware gangs to help them gain initial access to target networks – the increasing trend outlined by Group-IB researchers in the recent Ransomware Uncovered 2020/2021 report. As always, the document contains instructions on how to remove “protection”: Figure 2.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 7, 2023

But with a proactive approach to data security, organizations can fight back against the seemingly endless waves of threats. IBM Security X-Force found the most common threat on organizations is extortion, which comprised more than a quarter (27%) of all cybersecurity threats in 2022. Where do data breaches originate?

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

You’d therefore expect that the sector fares better at data security than your average organisation. The public data set on the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) website shows that data security isn’t necessarily better for financial organisations. What do the statistics say? million (about £4.70

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Gartner (2021) has two related definitions: Digital Transformation: “can refer to anything from IT modernization (for example, cloud computing), to digital optimization, to the invention of new digital business models.” Srivastav 2014) See Figure 1 (HistoryComputer 2021). So, at the outset, a good question to ask is What is DT

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IT Governance

APRIL 25, 2023

Insider threats are one of the most difficult security challenges that organisations face. Preventing this from happening requires a nuanced approach to information security, and it’s one that organisations are increasingly struggling with. Within this dyad, insider threats can be further divided into three types.

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Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

After months of wrangling, the California legislature has finally passed a set of significant amendments to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), a sweeping data privacy and security law commonly referred to as “California’s GDPR” (Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation). B2B Personal Information Excluded. Miscellaneous Additions.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

It seems everything smart is hackable, with IoT startups sometimes repeating security mistakes first made decades ago. How then does one start securing it? Welcome to the hacker by original podcast from for all secure, it's about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

It seems everything smart is hackable, with IoT startups sometimes repeating security mistakes first made decades ago. How then does one start securing it? Welcome to the hacker by original podcast from for all secure, it's about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 13, 2021

An app provided by the device manufacturer controls the schedule, the colour and other features such as the brightness. Not all IoT works this way, but a lot does, for example the massively popular Tuya lights I've been putting all over my house. You also want to be able to change the colour because hey, that's kinda cool.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 6, 2023

Ransomware is a type of malicious program, or malware, that encrypts files, documents and images on a computer or server so that users cannot access the data. The malware establishes itself on the endpoint and implements an infected binary on the system, encrypting everything from valuable database files to images and office documents.

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IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 1, 2023

The term “foundation model” was coined by the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence in 2021. Fortunately, data stores serve as secure data repositories and enable foundation models to scale in both terms of their size and their training data.

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Imperial Violet

JULY 22, 2023

It was a pair of standards, one for computers to talk to small removable devices called security keys, and the second a JavaScript API for websites to use them. A password is the most common example of such a secret. And there remain plenty of U2F security keys in use.)

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

IIain Paterson and Justin Macorin join The Hacker Mind podcast to share insights from their SecTor 2021 talk on hacking behavioral biometrics. I’m just not convinced that a fingerprint or an image of my face is secure enough. Take for example, that German candy, Gummy Bears. I'm a cyber security professional, I guess.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

To answer these questions, Paul Roberts, Editor-in-Chief of the Security Ledger, has founded securepairs.org , a group of infosec experts who are volunteering their free time to fight for the digital right to repair in local legislation. ” So should analyzing a device’s firmware for security flaws be considered illegal?

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

To answer these questions, Paul Roberts, Editor-in-Chief of the Security Ledger, has founded securepairs.org , a group of infosec experts who are volunteering their free time to fight for the digital right to repair in local legislation. ” So should analyzing a device’s firmware for security flaws be considered illegal?

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