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Month: October 2022

How to navigate the current 5G and IoT threat landscape

5G and IoT have made promising strides in the business and consumer technology spaces, but with new developments come new vulnerabilities. Learn what’s afoot and what you can do to secure against these risks. The post How to navigate the current 5G and IoT threat landscape appeared first on TechRepublic.

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  • October 24, 2022

Updating Test Scripts With Dependencies in Mind

90. Formulating test scripts to deploy resources with dependencies in the correct order (and with minimal hassle) This is a continuation of my series on Automating Cybersecurity Metrics. Order of Operations and Dependencies with CloudFormation When you use CloudFormation by creating a mammoth script with everything in it CloudFormation tries to handle all your dependencies for […]

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Clicker Malware Garners Estimated 20 Million Downloads

Google forced to remove over a dozen malicious apps

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On the Randomness of Automatic Card Shufflers

Many years ago, Matt Blaze and I talked about getting our hands on a casino-grade automatic shuffler and looking for vulnerabilities. We never did it—I remember that we didn’t even try very hard—but this article shows that we probably would have found non-random properties: …the executives had recently discovered that one of their machines had […]

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Ensuring Security in M&A: An Evolution, Not Revolution

Scott Heider is a manager within the Cisco Security Visibility and Incident Command team that reports to the company’s Security & Trust Organization. Primarily tasked with helping to keep the integration of an acquired company’s solutions as efficient as possible, Heider and his team are typically brought into the process after a public announcement of […]

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  • October 24, 2022

When CISOs are doomed to fail, and how to improve your chances of success

There’s a joke cryptographer Jon Callas likes to tell: CISO stands for Chief Intrusion Scapegoat Officer, “because CISOs are often thrown into a position where they can’t succeed.” Callas, who is the director of public interest tech at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, says that security officers are often “simultaneously in charge and powerless.” They know […]

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UK Construction Biz Fined £4.4m for Serious Security Failings

Interserve slammed by regulator after employee data breach

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Amid real estate volatility, cybercriminals are profiting

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. It is easy to think of cybercrime as a phenomenon only impacting the digital space. However, as trends are showing, digital attacks have a very real and very physical impact. According to the FBI, there has been a surge in rental and real estate property scams conducted via […]

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European Police Warn of Metaverse Cyber-Threats

Cops also identify opportunities to enhance law enforcement

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