Ransomware Detection: Effective Strategies and Tools In today’s environment, it may be impossible to avoid falling victim to a hacking attack altogether. The scale of criminal activity and the complex, constantly-evolving tactics used by ransomware groups means that even the best-prepared businesses cannot block every attack from infiltrating their networks. Therefore, being able to detect…
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Understanding Double Extortion Ransomware: Prevention and Response Ransomware is currently one of the most common – and costly – threats facing businesses of all sizes and across all sectors. For example, one study by Thales revealed there was a 27 percent increase in these attacks last year. Yet despite this, it noted less than half…
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Oct 23, 2024Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Threat Intelligence A high-severity flaw impacting Microsoft SharePoint has been added to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-38094 (CVSS score: 7.2), has been described as a deserialization vulnerability impacting…
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On the first day of Pwn2Own Ireland, participants demonstrated 52 zero-day vulnerabilities across a range of devices, earning a total of $486,250 in cash prizes. Viettel Cyber Security took an early lead getting 13 points in their chase for the “Master of Pwn” title. The team’s phudq and namnp exploited a Lorex 2K WiFi camera through a stack-based…
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Oct 23, 2024The Hacker NewsIdentity Security / Data Protection Identity security is front, and center given all the recent breaches that include Microsoft, Okta, Cloudflare and Snowflake to name a few. Organizations are starting to realize that a shake-up is needed in terms of the way we approach identity security both from a strategic but…
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“Helping grow Google Cloud from $7.3 billion to over $41 billion in annualized revenue and contributing to the creation of the world’s fourth-largest enterprise software company, has been a career-defining privilege,” said Google Cloud’s Amit Zavery, general manager and vice president, and head of platform. Google Cloud’s general manager and Microsoft critic, Amit Zavery, is…
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Network infrastructure-as-a-service specialist Alkira is introducing a ZTNA offering for its all-in-one cloud-based networking platform that will help unlock new business for channel partners, the company tells CRN. Alkira is rolling out its cloud-based Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) service, an offering that will further simplify security and networking for enterprises, according to the network…
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Here’s a look at the products updates, hardware and AI-enhanced features that the tech giant launched this week during WebexOne 2024. Cisco Systems has been on a mission over the last 18-24 months to truly elevate experiences for remote and in-person employees, businesses, and end users and customers. To that end, the tech giant has…
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‘We are really confident that this has nothing to do with our case,’ SAP CFO Dominik Asam said on the vendor’s latest quarterly earnings call. SAP’s leadership has now publicly weighed in on the September raid of reseller partner Carahsoft’s office by the FBI, with Chief Financial Officer Dominik Asam telling a news outlet that…
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Not long ago, the ability to digitally track someone’s daily movements just by knowing their home address, employer, or place of worship was considered a dangerous power that should remain only within the purview of nation states. But a new lawsuit in a likely constitutional battle over a New Jersey privacy law shows that anyone…
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