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3 inexpensive steps to secure IoT

IoT devices can be openings for attackers, causing major disruptions to businesses. Follow these three steps to secure your IoT devices. The post 3 inexpensive steps to secure IoT appeared first on TechRepublic.

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FTC Takes Enforcement Action Against EdTech Giant Chegg

Regulator’s order requires firm to improve data security practices

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Choosing a DAST solution: What to pay attention to?

The content of this post is solely the responsibility of the author.  AT&T does not adopt or endorse any of the views, positions, or information provided by the author in this article.  The majority of today’s web applications contain dangerous vulnerabilities. To analyze their security, one cannot do without a dynamic scanner. DAST (Dynamic Application […]

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NCSC Issued 34 Million Cyber Alerts in Past Year

UK security agency helps organizations with early warning service

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Fraudulent Instruction Losses Spike in 2022

Insurer says claimants have risen in nearly every sector

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  • October 31, 2022

Accused ‘Raccoon’ Malware Developer Fled Ukraine After Russian Invasion

A 26-year-old Ukrainian man is awaiting extradition from The Netherlands to the United States on charges that he acted as a core developer for Raccoon, a popular “malware-as-a-service” offering that helped paying customers steal passwords and financial data from millions of cybercrime victims. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that the defendant was busted in March 2022, after […]

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  • October 31, 2022

CISA releases cybersecurity performance goals to reduce risk and impact of adversarial threats

Last week, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released voluntary cross-sector Cybersecurity Performance Goals (CPGs). CISA was required to produce the CPGs under a national security memo on improving cybersecurity for critical infrastructure control systems issued by President Biden in July 2021. Working in coordination with the National Institute of Standards and Technology […]

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  • October 31, 2022

Engineering workstation attacks on industrial control systems double: Report

Engineering workstation compromises were the initial attack vector in 35% of all operational technology (OT) and industrial control system breaches in companies surveyed globally this year, doubling from the year earlier, according to research conducted by the SANS Institute and sponsored by Nozomi Networks. While the number of respondents who said they had experienced a […]

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Psychotherapy extortion suspect: arrest warrant issued

Wanted! Not only the extortionist who abused the data, but also the CEO who let it happen.

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