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Small business cyber security: the ultimate guide

IT Governance

If you’re an SME, cyber security might feel seem impossibly complex and filled with endless pitfalls. Although it’s true that there’s a lot at stake – with ineffective security measures potentially threatening your productivity, your bank accounts, and your employees’ and third parties’ personal data – the path to effective security needn’t be difficult.

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Unlocking the Five Steps to Proper Security Validation

Data Breach Today

Continuously Validate Security to Maximize the Value of Your Investments The 2020 Security Effectiveness Report shares our findings from an evaluation of 100+ enterprise production environments globally across every major vertical.

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Fileless Malware Tops Critical Endpoint Threats for 1H 2020

Threatpost

When it comes to endpoint security, a handful of threats make up the bulk of the most serious attack tools and tactics.

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Govt. Services Firm Tyler Technologies Hit in Apparent Ransomware Attack

Krebs on Security

Tyler Technologies , a Texas-based company that bills itself as the largest provider of software and technology services to the United States public sector, is battling a network intrusion that has disrupted its operations. The company declined to discuss the exact cause of the disruption, but their response so far is straight out of the playbook for responding to ransomware incidents.

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Prevent Data Breaches With Zero-Trust Enterprise Password Management

Keeper Security is transforming cybersecurity for people and organizations around the world. Keeper’s affordable and easy-to-use solutions are built on a foundation of zero-trust and zero-knowledge security to protect every user on every device. Our next-generation privileged access management solution deploys in minutes and seamlessly integrates with any tech stack to prevent breaches, reduce help desk costs and ensure compliance.

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Samba addresses the CVE-2020-1472 Zerologon Vulnerability

Security Affairs

Samba team has released a security patch to address the Zerologon issue in the Microsoft Windows Netlogon Remote Protocol (MS-NRPC). Samba team has released a security patch to address the Zerologon (CVE-2020-1472) issue in the Microsoft Windows Netlogon Remote Protocol (MS-NRPC). The CVE-2020-1472 flaw is an elevation of privilege that resides in the Netlogon.

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179 Arrested in Massive Global Dark Web Takedown

WIRED Threat Level

Operation Disruptor is an unprecedented international law enforcement effort, stemming from last year’s seizure of a popular underground bazaar called Wall Street Market.

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Microsoft: Attackers Exploiting ‘ZeroLogon’ Windows Flaw

Krebs on Security

Microsoft warned on Wednesday that malicious hackers are exploiting a particularly dangerous flaw in Windows Server systems that could be used to give attackers the keys to the kingdom inside a vulnerable corporate network. Microsoft’s warning comes just days after the U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued an emergency directive instructing all federal agencies to patch the vulnerability by Sept. 21 at the latest.

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Hackers hit Luxottica, production stopped at two Italian plants

Security Affairs

The Italian eyewear and eyecare giant Luxottica has reportedly suffered a cyber attack that disrupted its operations in Italy and China. Luxottica Group S.p.A. is an Italian eyewear conglomerate and the world’s largest company in the eyewear industry. As a vertically integrated company, Luxottica designs, manufactures, distributes and retails its eyewear brands, including LensCrafters, Sunglass Hut, Apex by Sunglass Hut, Pearle Vision, Target Optical, Eyemed vision care plan, and Glasses.c

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Ransomware Danger: Russian-Speaking Gang Targets Russians

Data Breach Today

Cybercrime Reminder: Russians Who Target Other Russians Play With Fire Russian criminals operating online who want to stay out of jail need only to follow a few simple rules, the primary one being: Never target Russians. So it's surprising that security researchers have uncovered a new ransomware-wielding gang of Russian speakers that includes Russian victims on its hit list.

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Optimizing The Modern Developer Experience with Coder

Many software teams have migrated their testing and production workloads to the cloud, yet development environments often remain tied to outdated local setups, limiting efficiency and growth. This is where Coder comes in. In our 101 Coder webinar, you’ll explore how cloud-based development environments can unlock new levels of productivity. Discover how to transition from local setups to a secure, cloud-powered ecosystem with ease.

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The iOS 14 Privacy and Security Features You Should Know

WIRED Threat Level

The latest update for your iPhone and iPad will make them safer than ever.

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Who is Tech Investor John Bernard?

Krebs on Security

John Bernard , the subject of a story here last week about a self-proclaimed millionaire investor who has bilked countless tech startups , appears to be a pseudonym for John Clifton Davies , a U.K. man who absconded from justice before being convicted on multiple counts of fraud in 2015. Prior to his conviction, Davies served 16 months in jail before being cleared of murdering his wife on their honeymoon in India.

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NCSC warns of a surge in ransomware attacks on education institutions

Security Affairs

The U.K. National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has issued an alert about a surge in ransomware attacks targeting education institutions. The U.K. National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), has issued an alert about a surge in ransomware attacks against education institutions. The British security agency is urging the institutions in the industry to follow the recommendations to mitigate the risk of exposure to ransomware attacks.

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Police Crack SMS Phishing Operation

Data Breach Today

Two Men Accused of Sending Messages to Obtain Personal, Bank Information Australian police say they've broken up a sophisticated SMS phishing scheme designed to collect personal details and bank login credentials. It's a rare success in the fight against unsolicited text messages.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Documented Death from a Ransomware Attack

Schneier on Security

A Dusseldorf woman died when a ransomware attack against a hospital forced her to be taken to a different hospital in another city. I think this is the first documented case of a cyberattack causing a fatality. UK hospitals had to redirect patients during the 2017 WannaCry ransomware attack , but there were no documented fatalities from that event. The police are treating this as a homicide.

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How Twitter Survived Its Biggest Hack—and Plans to Stop the Next One

WIRED Threat Level

On July 15, Twitter melted down. On Election Day, that's not an option.

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Mozi Botnet is responsible for most of the IoT Traffic

Security Affairs

The Mozi botnet accounted for 90% of the IoT network traffic observed between October 2019 and June 2020, IBM reported. Mozi is an IoT botnet that borrows the code from Mirai variants and the Gafgyt malware , it appeared on the threat landscape in late 2019. The Mozi botnet was spotted by security experts from 360 Netlab, at the time of its discovered it was actively targeting Netgear, D-Link, and Huawei routers by probing for weak Telnet passwords to compromise them.

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COVID-19 Update: 'Live Like You're Contagious'

Data Breach Today

Pandemic Expert Regina Phelps on What We've Learned From 6 Months of Quarantine With colder weather, the flu season and the holidays ahead, the northern hemisphere is at risk of another major COVID-19 outbreak. Pandemic expert Regina Phelps says it's time to change behavior, and that starts here: "Live like you're contagious.

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The Tumultuous IT Landscape Is Making Hiring More Difficult

After a year of sporadic hiring and uncertain investment areas, tech leaders are scrambling to figure out what’s next. This whitepaper reveals how tech leaders are hiring and investing for the future. Download today to learn more!

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Can Schools Pass Their Biggest Cybersecurity Test Yet?

Dark Reading

Understaffed, underfunded, and underequipped, IT teams in the K-12 sector face a slew of challenges amid remote and hybrid learning models. Here's where they can begin to protect their schools against cyberattacks.

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A Patient Dies After a Ransomware Attack Hits a Hospital

WIRED Threat Level

The outage resulted in a significant delay in treatment. German authorities are investigating the perpetrators on suspicion of negligent manslaughter.

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German encrypted email service Tutanota suffers DDoS attacks

Security Affairs

The popular encrypted email service Tutanota was hit with a series of DDoS attacks this week targeting its website fist and its DNS providers later. Encrypted email service, Tutanota suffered a series of DDoS attacks that initially targeted the website and later its DNS providers. The company currently has over 2 million users, some of them were not able to access the service for several hours.

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Federal Agency Hacked Using Stolen Office 365 Credentials

Data Breach Today

CISA: Hacker Apparently Exploited VPN Vulnerabilty The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has issued a report describing how a threat actor apparently used a well-known VPN vulnerability and compromised Office 365 credentials to gain administrative privileges to a federal agency's network.

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Improving the Accuracy of Generative AI Systems: A Structured Approach

Speaker: Anindo Banerjea, CTO at Civio & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

When developing a Gen AI application, one of the most significant challenges is improving accuracy. This can be especially difficult when working with a large data corpus, and as the complexity of the task increases. The number of use cases/corner cases that the system is expected to handle essentially explodes. 💥 Anindo Banerjea is here to showcase his significant experience building AI/ML SaaS applications as he walks us through the current problems his company, Civio, is solving.

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Former NSA Director Keith Alexander Joins Amazon’s Board of Directors

Schneier on Security

This sounds like a bad idea.

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Think Twice Before Using Facebook, Google, or Apple to Sign In Everywhere

WIRED Threat Level

So-called single sign-on options offer a lot of convenience. But they have downsides that a good old fashioned password manager doesn't.

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Microsoft, Italy and the Netherlands agencies warn of EMOTET campaigns

Security Affairs

Experts worldwide warn about a surge in the Emotet activity, this time the alerts are from Microsoft, Italy and the Netherlands agencies. Two weeks ago, cybersecurity agencies across Asia and Europe warned of Emotet spam campaigns targeting businesses in France, Japan, and New Zealand. The French national cyber-security agency published an alert to warn of a significant increase of Emotet attacks targeting the private sector and public administration entities in France.

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FBI, CISA Warn of Election Results Disinformation Campaigns

Data Breach Today

Nation-States, Others Could Try to Undermine Confidence in Election Process With less than 45 days to go before the November election, the FBI and CISA have issued a warning that nation-state hackers and cybercriminals may attempt to spread disinformation regarding the final vote tallies as a way to undermine confidence in the voting process.

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The Cloud Development Environment Adoption Report

Cloud Development Environments (CDEs) are changing how software teams work by moving development to the cloud. Our Cloud Development Environment Adoption Report gathers insights from 223 developers and business leaders, uncovering key trends in CDE adoption. With 66% of large organizations already using CDEs, these platforms are quickly becoming essential to modern development practices.

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Making the Case for Medical Device Cybersecurity

Dark Reading

With an increasing number of Internet-connected medical devices in use to manage diabetes, protection against a variety of wireless network attacks could very well be a matter of life and death for patients.

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The Cheating Scandal That Ripped the Poker World Apart

WIRED Threat Level

Mike Postle was on an epic winning streak at a California casino. Veronica Brill thought he had to be playing dirty. Let the chips fall where they may.

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Hijacking nearby Firefox mobile browsers via WiFi by exploiting a bug

Security Affairs

Mozilla addressed a bug that can be exploited by attackers to hijack all the Firefox for Android browsers that share the same WiFi network. Mozilla has addressed a vulnerability that can be abused by attackers to hijack all the Firefox for Android browsers on the same WiFi network and force them to visit malicious sites, such as pages delivering malware and phishing pages.

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