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Year: 2023

Ransomware attacks are decreasing, but companies remain vulnerable

Only 25% of the organizations surveyed by Delinea were hit by ransomware attacks in 2022, but fewer companies are taking proactive steps to prevent such attacks. The post Ransomware attacks are decreasing, but companies remain vulnerable appeared first on TechRepublic.

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  • January 11, 2023

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, January 2023 Edition

Microsoft today released updates to fix nearly 100 security flaws in its Windows operating systems and other software. Highlights from the first Patch Tuesday of 2023 include a zero-day vulnerability in Windows, printer software flaws reported by the U.S. National Security Agency, and a critical Microsoft SharePoint Server bug that allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker […]

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  • January 11, 2023

Data leak exposes information of 10,000 French social security beneficiaries

[Editor’s note: This article originally appeared on the Le Monde Informatique website.] More than 10,000 beneficiaries of a local branch of the French social security agency CAF, or Family Allowance Fund, saw their data exposed for about 18 months, after a file containing personal information was sent to a service provider. The mistake, discovered by […]

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  • January 11, 2023

Microsoft Patch Tuesday: One 0-day; Win 7 and 8.1 get last-ever patches

Get ’em while they’re hot. And get ’em for the very last time, if you still have Windows 7 or 8.1…

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Freejacking Campaign By PurpleUrchin Bypasses Captchas

The threat actors also deployed more aggressive techniques for mining CPU resources

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  • January 10, 2023

Accelerate XDR Outcomes with NDR and EDR

Cybersecurity attacks complication and damaging impact are always keeping SOC analyst at their edge. Extended Detection and Response (XDR) solutions tend to simplify for Sam, a SOC analyst, his job by simplifying the workflow and process that involve the lifecycle of a threat investigation from detection to response. In this post we will explore how […]

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  • January 10, 2023

India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Bill: What works, what it lacks

A new draft of India’s data protection bill is set to be debated in Parliament, but even before discussion begins, privacy and security experts are saying that the proposed legislation lacks clarity on key issues. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has prepared a draft of the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill 2022 and invited public […]

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Cybercrime investigations in South Africa

Cybercrime investigations in South Africa are becoming increasingly important as the country experiences a surge in cyber attacks and online crimes. The post Cybercrime investigations in South Africa appeared first on Da Vinci Forensics.

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  • January 9, 2023

Governance for DNS on AWS

ACM.125: Strategy for protecting domain names and DNS configurations in your AWS Organization This is a continuation of my series on Automating Cybersecurity Metrics. I wrote the importance of securing your domain names in my last post and why it matters. If someone can take over your domain name or DNS configuration they can potentially […]

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