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Ensuring Security in M&A: An Evolution, Not Revolution

Scott Heider is a manager within the Cisco Security Visibility and Incident Command team that reports to the company’s Security & Trust Organization. Primarily tasked with helping to keep the integration of an acquired company’s solutions as efficient as possible, Heider and his team are typically brought into the process after a public announcement of […]

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  • October 24, 2022

When CISOs are doomed to fail, and how to improve your chances of success

There’s a joke cryptographer Jon Callas likes to tell: CISO stands for Chief Intrusion Scapegoat Officer, “because CISOs are often thrown into a position where they can’t succeed.” Callas, who is the director of public interest tech at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, says that security officers are often “simultaneously in charge and powerless.” They know […]

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UK Construction Biz Fined £4.4m for Serious Security Failings

Interserve slammed by regulator after employee data breach

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Amid real estate volatility, cybercriminals are profiting

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. It is easy to think of cybercrime as a phenomenon only impacting the digital space. However, as trends are showing, digital attacks have a very real and very physical impact. According to the FBI, there has been a surge in rental and real estate property scams conducted via […]

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European Police Warn of Metaverse Cyber-Threats

Cops also identify opportunities to enhance law enforcement

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  • October 24, 2022

CISA Warns of Daixin Team Hackers Targeting Health Organizations With Ransomware

U.S. cybersecurity and intelligence agencies have published a joint advisory warning of attacks perpetrated by a cybercrime gang known as the Daixin Team primarily targeting the healthcare sector in the country. “The Daixin Team is a ransomware and data extortion group that has targeted the HPH Sector with ransomware and data extortion operations since at least June […]

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  • October 24, 2022

SideWinder APT Using New WarHawk Backdoor to Target Entities in Pakistan

SideWinder, a prolific nation-state actor mainly known for targeting Pakistan military entities, compromised the official website of the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) to deliver a tailored malware called WarHawk. “The newly discovered WarHawk backdoor contains various malicious modules that deliver Cobalt Strike, incorporating new TTPs such as KernelCallBackTable injection

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Top Signs of Identity Theft

When it comes to identity theft, trust your gut when something doesn’t feel right. Follow up. What you’re seeing could be a problem.   A missing bill or a mysterious charge on your credit card could be the tip of an identity theft iceberg, one that can run deep if left unaddressed. Here, we’ll look at several signs of identity theft that likely need some investigation and the steps […]

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  • October 24, 2022

SSH Error — Github or AWS CloudFormation?

SSH Error — Github or AWS CloudFormation? While trying to access the Github meta API to get the list of CIDRs associated with GitHub and put them into an AWS Prefix List I randomly got this error. verfiable_password_authentication… falsessh_key_fingerprints The thing is, my code never changed when I got this error. I had run the same code a […]

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