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Businesses Increasing Cyber Spend Without Clear Strategy, Fastly Finds

As businesses aim to spend more on cybersecurity, Fastly warns that many do so without a clear strategy

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Let’s Encrypt Issues Three Billionth Certificate

Free certificate authority serves over 300 million websites

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Most Small Biz IaaS Users Seeing Surge in Attacks

A further 67% were hit by ransomware in past year

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Flaw allowed man to access private information of other Brinks Home Security customers

A Canadian man has revealed that the company he chose to provide security for his home was carelessly exposing the private information for other customers, even after he warned them about the problem. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

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  • November 30, 2022

Australia Passes Bill to Fine Companies up to $50 Million for Data Breaches

The Australian government has passed a bill that markedly increases the penalty for companies suffering from serious or repeated data breaches. To that end, the maximum fines have been bumped up from the current AU$2.22 million to AU$50 million, 30% of an entity’s adjusted turnover in the relevant period, or three times the value of […]

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  • November 30, 2022

3 New Vulnerabilities Affect OT Products from German Festo and CODESYS Companies

Researchers have disclosed details of three new security vulnerabilities affecting operational technology (OT) products from CODESYS and Festo that could lead to source code tampering and denial-of-service (DoS). The vulnerabilities, reported by Forescout Vedere Labs, are the latest in a long list of flaws collectively tracked under the name OT:ICEFALL. “These issues exemplify either an

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  • November 30, 2022

Chinese Cyber Espionage Hackers Using USB Devices to Target Entities in Philippines

A threat actor with a suspected China nexus has been linked to a set of espionage attacks in the Philippines that primarily relies on USB devices as an initial infection vector. Mandiant, which is part of Google Cloud, is tracking the cluster under its uncategorized moniker UNC4191. An analysis of the artifacts used in the intrusions […]

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How Akamai Helps to Mitigate the OWASP API Security Top 10 Vulnerabilities

Experts warn that API attacks will soon become the most common type of web application attack. As a result, organizations and their security vendors need to align across people, processes, and technologies to institute the right protections. The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) API Security Top 10 is a good place to start. Download […]

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