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What Are the Cyber Security Challenges of Hybrid Working?

IT Governance

When it comes to the ideal post-pandemic work environment, employers and employees and have very different ideas. According to a Microsoft study , 73% of workers want to keep the flexible work arrangements created in response to COVID-19, and 67% want a return to in-person collaboration.

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Hard Drive Health & Data Security

Record Nations

Hard drive health and data security are very closely connected. A failing hard drive can pose a number of security risks to any business. It’s important to recognize the signs of a failing drive, as well as what can be done to make sure that the data within remains accessible. We spoke to the founder […]. The post Hard Drive Health & Data Security appeared first on Record Nations.

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How Ready Are You for a Ransomware Attack?

Threatpost

Oliver Tavakoli, CTO at Vectra, lays out the different layers of ransomware defense all companies should implement.

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Wanted: Disgruntled Employees to Deploy Ransomware

Krebs on Security

Criminal hackers will try almost anything to get inside a profitable enterprise and secure a million-dollar payday from a ransomware infection. Apparently now that includes emailing employees directly and asking them to unleash the malware inside their employer’s network in exchange for a percentage of any ransom amount paid by the victim company.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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1.9 million+ records from the FBI’s terrorist watchlist available online

Security Affairs

A security researcher discovered that a secret FBI’s terrorist watchlist was accidentally exposed on the internet for three weeks between July 19 and August 9, 2021. A security researcher Bob Diachenko discovered a secret terrorist watchlist with 1.9 million records that were exposed on the internet for three weeks between July 19 and August 9, 2021.

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China Aims Its Propaganda Firehose at the BBC

WIRED Threat Level

The alleged digital operation has deployed hundreds of websites and social media accounts to attack the broadcaster's reporting.

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T-Mobile Investigating Claims of Massive Data Breach

Krebs on Security

Communications giant T-Mobile said today it is investigating the extent of a breach that hackers claim has exposed sensitive personal data on 100 million T-Mobile USA customers, in many cases including the name, Social Security number, address, date of birth, phone number, security PINs and details that uniquely identify each customer’s mobile device.

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Hamburg’s data protection agency (DPA) states that using Zoom violates GDPR

Security Affairs

The German state’s data protection agency (DPA) warns that the use of the videoconferencing platform Zoom violates the European Union’s GDPR. The German state’s data protection agency (DPA) warns that the Senate Chancellory’s use of the popular videoconferencing tool violates the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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Houdini Malware Used in New Way

Data Breach Today

Cato Networks: Malware Now Used to Spoof Devices Researchers at SASE platform provider Cato Networks say they have discovered a novel use of the Houdini malware for spoofing of devices.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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The T-Mobile Data Breach Is One You Can’t Ignore

WIRED Threat Level

Hackers claim to have obtained the data of 100 million people—including sensitive personal information.

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T-Mobile: Breach Exposed SSN/DOB of 40M+ People

Krebs on Security

T-Mobile is warning that a data breach has exposed the names, date of birth, Social Security number and driver’s license/ID information of more than 40 million current, former or prospective customers who applied for credit with the company. The acknowledgment came less than 48 hours after millions of the stolen T-Mobile customer records went up for sale in the cybercrime underground.

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Adobe addresses two critical vulnerabilities in Photoshop

Security Affairs

Adobe has addressed two critical security vulnerabilities affecting its Photoshop image manipulation software. Ad obe released security updates to address two critical security vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2021-36065 and CVE-2021-36066, affecting the popular image manipulation software Photoshop. The flaws affect versions of the software for both Windows and macOS, their exploitation could lead to?

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T-Mobile USA Investigates Possible Data Breach

Data Breach Today

Group Claims GGSN Misconfiguration Led to 100 Million User Accounts T-Mobile USA says it is investigating a claim that as many as 100 million accounts may have been compromised in a data breach. The person who claims responsibility for the alleged breach says T-Mobile misconfigured a Gateway GPRS Support Node.

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Zero Trust Mandate: The Realities, Requirements and Roadmap

The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.

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Millions of Web Camera and Baby Monitor Feeds Are Exposed

WIRED Threat Level

A vulnerability in the Kalay platform leaves countless IoT devices susceptible to hackers.

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ROUNDTABLE: Why T-Mobile’s latest huge data breach could fuel attacks directed at mobile devices

The Last Watchdog

TMobile has now issued a formal apology and offered free identity theft recovery services to nearly 48 million customers for whom the telecom giant failed to protect their sensitive personal information. At the start of this week, word got out that hackers claimed to have seized personal data for as many as 100 million T-Mobile patrons. Related: Kaseya hack worsens supply chain risk.

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Cloudflare mitigated the largest ever volumetric DDoS attack to date

Security Affairs

Web infrastructure and website security company Cloudflare announced to have mitigated the largest ever volumetric DDoS attack to date. Cloudflare, the web infrastructure and website security company, announced that it has mitigated the largest ever volumetric distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack to date. Volumetric DDoS attacks are designed to overwhelm internal network capacity and even centralized DDoS mitigation scrubbing facilities with significantly high volumes of malicious traffic

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Insurer Tokio Marine Hit by Ransomware

Data Breach Today

Firm Says Singapore Unit Was Targeted Tokio Marine, a Japan-based property and casualty insurer, says its Tokio Marine Insurance Singapore unit was hit by a ransomware attack this week.

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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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The T-Mobile Data Breach Is Much Worse Than It Had to Be

WIRED Threat Level

The vast majority of victims weren’t even T-Mobile customers. Now their information is for sale on the dark web.

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How to Eliminate Paper Processes

AIIM

Despite the proven operational improvements to be gain by going paperless, paper is still prevalent in too many core business processes today including loan applications, insurance claims, and customer onboarding. After last year's mad dash to accommodate distributed workers and work places, the reticence to digitize paper processes is decreasing. 70% of AIIM survey respondents indicate that they plan to expand their efforts to encourage and support more digitally-born documents this year.

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T-Mobile confirms data breach that exposed customer personal info

Security Affairs

T-Mobile confirms a breach after threat actors claimed to have obtained records of 100 million of its customers and offered them for sale. T-Mobile has confirmed a data breach that exposed personal information from over 100 million of its US customers. Yesterday the company announced it launched an investigation into a possible data breach after a threat actor published a post on a forum claiming to be selling the personal data of its customers.

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T-Mobile: Attackers Stole 8.6 Million Customers' Details

Data Breach Today

40 Million Credit Applications Also Stolen; Social Security Numbers Exposed T-Mobile USA has confirmed that its systems were breached and that details for 7.8 million current T-Mobile postpaid customers and 850,000 prepaid customers as well as records for 40 million individuals who applied for credit were stolen.

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!

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How to Send Messages That Automatically Disappear

WIRED Threat Level

Need to be discreet? Here's how to set up vanishing texts, photos, or videos in most popular chat apps.

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MY TAKE: What NortonLifeLock’s $8 billion buyout of Avast portends for consumer security

The Last Watchdog

So NortonLifeLock has acquired Avast for more than $8 billion. This deal reads like to the epilogue to a book titled The First 20 Years of the Supremely Lucrative Antivirus Market. Way back in 1990, Symantec acquired Norton Utilities and made Norton the heart of its antivirus subscription offering. Related: The coming of ubiquitous passwordless access.

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Threat actors hacked US Census Bureau in 2020 by exploiting a Citrix flaw

Security Affairs

Threat actors breached the servers of US Census Bureau on January 11, 2020, exploiting an unpatched Citrix ADC zero-day vulnerability, OIG revealed. A report published by the US Office of Inspector General (OIG) revealed that threat actors breached the servers of US Census Bureau on January 11, 2020, exploiting an unpatched Citrix ADC zero-day flaw.

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Memorial Health System in Ohio Latest Entity Hit With Attack

Data Breach Today

Hospitals Diverting ER Patients to Other Area Facilities Memorial Health System in Ohio is the latest healthcare entity hit with an apparent ransomware incident that is disrupting patient care services.

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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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Google Docs Scams Still Pose a Threat

WIRED Threat Level

A 2017 worm caused havoc across the internet. One researcher is warning that despite new protections put in place, it could still happen again.

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How Well Does Your Information Strategy Align with Your Business Goals?

AIIM

In both our personal and professional lives, the amount of information we deal with on a daily basis is growing exponentially. At the same time, the variety of this information is evolving -- audio files, video files, and more. The cummulative effect? Information Chaos ! For many organizations, information is largely viewed as an achilles heel that must be tamed and controlled.

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US FINRA warns US brokerage firms and brokers of ongoing phishing attacks

Security Affairs

The US FINRA warns US brokerage firms and brokers of an ongoing phishing campaign impersonating its representatives to steal sensitive info. The US Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) is warning US brokerage firms and brokers of an ongoing phishing campaign. Threat actors are impersonating FINRA officials and are using the threat of penalties to trick victims recipients into providing sensitive information.

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