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The OWASP Top 10 – How Akamai Helps

OWASP publishes a list of the 10 most common vulnerabilities in web applications. This white paper details how Akamai can help mitigate these threat vectors. The post The OWASP Top 10 – How Akamai Helps appeared first on TechRepublic.

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What is Account Takeover and How to Prevent It in 2022

An account takeover (ATO), in which criminals impersonate legitimate account owners to take control of an account, are on the rise in Asia and across the world. Fraudsters are swindling money and digital assets from consumers across industries, with the most hard-hit targets in financial services, retail, gaming, hotel and travel. It is critical for […]

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  • November 29, 2022

Cisco Joins the Launch of Amazon Security Lake

Cisco supports the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework and is a launch partner of AWS Security Lake The Cisco Secure Technical Alliance supports the open ecosystem and AWS is a valued technology alliance partner, with integrations across the Cisco Secure portfolio, including SecureX, Secure Firewall, Secure Cloud Analytics, Duo, Umbrella, Web Security Appliance, Secure Workload, Secure […]

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  • November 29, 2022

A Few Highlights from Amazon re:Invent 2022

Some new services and tools I found interesting… This is one of my posts on AWS Security. These are a few things that caught my eye in the AWS re:Invent 2022 keynote by Adam Selipsky. I tend to focus on things related to cybersecurity. He started out announcing various big data processing and machine learning […]

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  • November 29, 2022

AWS Security

A compilation of stories written about AWS by Teri Radichel There’s over 100 posts in this series which walks through implementing a secure AWS architecture with governance and not done…not going to repeat all these here so check out the links in the following post. Automating Cybersecurity Metrics (ACM) Temporary access to log into an AWS […]

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Oracle Fusion Middleware Vulnerability Actively Exploited in the Wild: CISA

The bug allows unauthenticated attackers with network access to compromise Oracle Access Manager

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  • November 29, 2022

TikTok “Invisible Challenge” porn malware puts us all at risk

An injury to one is an injury to all. Especially if the other people are part of your social network.

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  • November 29, 2022

BrandPost: SASE: The Only Way to Improve Network Security Without Added Complexity

By: Mike Spanbauer, Field CTO, Security at Juniper Networks The future of network security has a new shiny architecture to meet organizational needs with Secure Access Service Edge (SASE). Still, most network administrators are either not ready or able to decommission their existing on-premisessecurity solutions. Organizations are much more likely to need to support hybrid environments […]

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  • November 29, 2022

New Flaw in Acer Laptops Could Let Attackers Disable Secure Boot Protection

Acer has released a firmware update to address a security vulnerability that could be potentially weaponized to turn off UEFI Secure Boot on affected machines. Tracked as CVE-2022-4020, the high-severity vulnerability affects five different models that consist of Aspire A315-22, A115-21, and A315-22G, and Extensa EX215-21 and EX215-21G. The PC maker described the vulnerability as

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