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London’s New Cyber Resilience Centre Set to Fight Cybercrime in the Capital

This is the latest of a network of nine cybersecurity centers spread across England and Wales to supper SMEs against cybercrime

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Password Boss can store unlimited login details, with instant sync between devices. Get a lifetime subscription today for just $35. The post This highly rated password manager is currently 93% off appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Supply Chain Attacks or Vulnerabilities Experienced by 80% of Orgs, BlackBerry Finds

The report highlighted the enormous business costs of supply chain software attacks

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  • October 26, 2022

ThreatWise TV: Exploring Recent Incident Response Trends

Today we’re examining some of the revelations in the Q3 Cisco Talos Incident Response Trends Report. This document is an anonymized look at of all the engagements that the Cisco Talos Incident Response team have been involved in over the previous three months. It also features threat intelligence from our team of researchers and analysts.   […]

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Australia Increases Fines for Massive Data Breaches

After suffering two large, and embarrassing, data breaches in recent weeks, the Australian government increased the fine for serious data breaches from $2.2 million to a minimum of $50 million. (That’s $50 million AUD, or $32 million USD.) This is a welcome change. The problem is one of incentives, and Australia has now increased the […]

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  • October 26, 2022

How to update your Windows driver blocklist to keep malicious drivers away

For many years, attackers have used and abused various ways to get on our systems. From phishing to tricking us to click on websites, if an attacker can get their code on our systems they are no longer our systems. Attackers will even invest the time, energy, and expense to get their malicious drivers approved […]

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Risks that third-party vendors pose to outsourcing banks

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. The banking and financial sector is known for its dependence on third-party vendors that help provide customers with quality financial products and services. It is one of the most interconnected sectors, making it one of the most vulnerable to cyberattacks. And because third parties operate through […]

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  • October 26, 2022

Hackers Actively Exploiting Cisco AnyConnect and GIGABYTE Drivers Vulnerabilities

Cisco has warned of active exploitation attempts targeting a pair of two-year-old security flaws in the Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client for Windows. Tracked as CVE-2020-3153 (CVSS score: 6.5) and CVE-2020-3433 (CVSS score: 7.8), the vulnerabilities could enable local authenticated attackers to perform DLL hijacking and copy arbitrary files to system directories with elevated privileges.

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  • October 26, 2022

Vice Society Hackers Are Behind Several Ransomware Attacks Against Education Sector

A cybercrime group known as Vice Society has been linked to multiple ransomware strains in its malicious campaigns aimed at the education, government, and retail sectors. The Microsoft Security Threat Intelligence team, which is tracking the threat cluster under the moniker DEV-0832, said the group avoids deploying ransomware in some cases and rather likely carries out extortion […]

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