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What is a Cyberattack? Types and Defenses

eSecurity Planet

Cyber criminals may damage, destroy, steal, encrypt, expose, or leak data as well as cause harm to a system. Encrypted threats spiked 167%, ransomware increased 105%, and 5.4 In May, cybersecurity researchers revealed that ransomware attacks are increasing their aggressive approach by destroying data instead of encrypting it.

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It’s time to think twice about retail loyalty programs

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

In this case, it looks as though the attackers had been on the Starwood network for somewhere around three years, mining out their reservations database (keep in mind that Marriott only acquired Starwood in 2016 ). As I was starting to write this blog, yet another retail program data breach occurred, for Marriott’s Starwood loyalty program.

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Vulnerability Recap 4/22/24 – Cisco, Ivanti, Oracle & More

eSecurity Planet

Widely-used PuTTY Utility Allows Recovery of Encryption Secret Keys Type of vulnerability: Deterministic cryptographic number generation. that didn’t generate sufficiently random numbers for encryption keys, which could allow an attacker to fully recover keys and impersonate users after obtaining roughly 60 signatures.

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Federal Agency Data is Under Siege

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The 57 percent rate statistic is the highest of all verticals we measured in this year’s report (others include the healthcare industry, the retail industry, and the financial services industry) or any region surveyed. Forty-eight percent used more than 100 Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking APIs

ForAllSecure

Kent: I started calling friends of mine. I said, Do you have one of these things, and I got lucky that a friend of mine in San Francisco had one. Vamosi: Another industry that could be directly affected is financial services, with all the mobile banking applications that are becoming more common today. He told me.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking APIs

ForAllSecure

Kent: I started calling friends of mine. I said, Do you have one of these things, and I got lucky that a friend of mine in San Francisco had one. Vamosi: Another industry that could be directly affected is financial services, with all the mobile banking applications that are becoming more common today. He told me.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 450 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Security Affairs

CISA and ENISA enhance their Cooperation CISA adds Qlik bugs to exploited vulnerabilities catalog Report: 2.6

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