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CISOs, boards not always on the same page

Most boards of directors understand the risk, but many will not invest more in cybersecurity and have different concerns about the impact of a breach. The post CISOs, boards not always on the same page appeared first on TechRepublic.

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CISA Advisory Details How Hackers Targeted Defense Industrial Base Organization

The document was jointly released by CISA with the FBI and NSA

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Australia’s Data Breaches Continue With Telstra’s Third-Party Supplier Hacked

The data posted on the internet by the hackers was from 2017 and reportedly “basic in nature”

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Default VPC Security Group Names and Set Rules

ACM.71 Identify and explicitly configure all networking in your AWS Account This is a continuation of my series of posts on Automating Cybersecurity Metrics. When you create an AWS VPC as we did with our earlier automated VPC creation, you will get an associated security group by default. Automate Creation of a VPC Unfortunately, you cannot delete […]

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Why Don’t CISOs Trust Their Employees?

Executives fear “malicious insiders” as top cyber threat to companies, research shows. Reasonable steps to secure and monitor systems may prevent reputational damage but are not enough.

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RatMilad Spyware Scurries onto Enterprise Android Phones

A novel mobile malware found lurking behind a phone-spoofing app is being distributed via Telegram and a dedicated website, in a broad operation to monitor corporate victims.

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Experts Warn of New RatMilad Android Spyware Targeting Enterprise Devices

A novel Android malware called RatMilad has been observed targeting a Middle Eastern enterprise mobile device by concealing itself as a VPN and phone number spoofing app. The mobile trojan functions as advanced spyware with capabilities that receives and executes commands to collect and exfiltrate a wide variety of data from the infected mobile endpoint, […]

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Telstra Telecom Suffers Data Breach Potentially Exposing Employee Information

Australia’s largest telecommunications company Telstra disclosed that it was the victim of a data breach through a third-party, nearly two weeks after Optus reported a breach of its own. “There has been no breach of Telstra’s systems,” Narelle Devine, the company’s chief information security officer for the Asia Pacific region, said. “And no customer account data […]

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7 Practical Considerations for Effective Threat Intelligence

If your security team is considering, planning, building, or operating a threat intelligence capability, this advice can help.

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