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Thinking beyond updates Cisco emphasized that perimeter network devices serve as ideal entry points for espionage-focused campaigns and must be routinely and promptly patched. “In the past two years, we have seen a dramatic and sustained increase in the targeting of these devices in areas such as telecommunications providers and energy sector organizations — critical…
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Apr 25, 2024NewsroomTechnology / Privacy Google has once again pushed its plans to deprecate third-party tracking cookies in its Chrome web browser as it works to address outstanding competition concerns from U.K. regulators over its Privacy Sandbox initiative. The tech giant said it’s working closely with the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and hopes…
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Leicester City Council suffers a crippling ransomware attack, and a massive data breach, but is it out of the dark yet? And as election fever hits India we take a close eye at deepfakery. All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and…
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2023 was a big year for threat intelligence. The sheer volume of threats and attacks revealed through Microsoft’s analysis of 78 trillion daily security signals indicates a shift in how threat actors are scaling and leveraging nation-state support. We saw more attacks than ever before, with attack chains growing increasingly complex; dwell times becoming shorter;…
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“We’re moving this huge campus, which will ultimately be our world headquarters, we’re moving that to Nashville,” Oracle’s Larry Ellison said Tuesday. During its Oracle Health Summit 2024 in Nashville, Tenn., Tuesday, Larry Ellison, the vendor’s co-founder, chairman and CTO, revealed on stage that the database products and cloud computing vendor wants to ditch its…
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To set up these tunnels, the attackers simply use the SSH client from the OpenSSH toolkit for Windows together with the openssh library required to run it and a private key file that allows the endpoint to authenticate to the server. The OpenSSH client is dropped in the regular C:Program FilesOpenSSH location since its presence…
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GenAI, Red Hat and potential acquisitions are expected to come up on the vendor’s earnings call Wednesday. Updates on generative artificial intelligence offerings. Growth in the Red Hat business. And the potential acquisition of HashiCorp. These are some of the big topics IBM executives are expected to weigh in on during the Armonk, N.Y.-based vendor’s…
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Apr 24, 2024NewsroomCyber Attack / Cyber Espionage The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Monday sanctioned two firms and four individuals for their involvement in malicious cyber activities on behalf of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Cyber Electronic Command (IRGC-CEC) from at least 2016 to April 2021. This includes the…
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Scalable risk management Critical Start MDR for OT promises visibility and risk reduction at a “reasonable” cost for organizations with or without OT security tools. With its scalability support for additional monitoring tools as and when they are onboarded, the offering aims for a “future-proof” deployment. The offering, on top of operating independently, can support…
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The UK’s Leicester City Council was thrown into chaos last month when a crippling cyber attack forced it to shut down its IT systems and phone lines. The INC Ransom group perpetrated the ransomware attack, which reportedly impacted care home workers and the homeless but also saw at least 1.3 terabytes of stolen data published…
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