As hurricanes and other natural disasters occur, CISA urges individuals to remain on alert for potential malicious cyber activity. Fraudulent emails and social media messages—often containing malicious links or attachments—are common after major natural disasters. Exercise caution in handling emails with hurricane-related subject lines, attachments, or hyperlinks. In addition, be wary of social media pleas,…
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Solutions providers say a focus on sustainability is helping close deals with customers who are concerned with everything from a company’s carbon footprint to getting a handle on soaring power and cooling costs in the data center. Erik Stromquist, chairman and CEO of Portland, Ore.-based custom system builder CTL, says that building out a sustainability…
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‘[Parablu] really broadens our product offerings. Now we can back up the M365 suite. Parablu also brings to us a very solid development organization. They’re based in India, and the executives from the company have 40-plus years of experience in the storage market itself,’ says CrashPlan CEO John Becker. Data protection technology developer CrashPlan Tuesday…
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Japanese tech giant Casio has suffered a cyberattack after an unauthorized actor accessed its networks on October 5, causing system disruption that impacted some of its services. The disclosure comes from Casio Computer, the parent company of the Casio brand, widely known for its watches, calculators, musical instruments, cameras, and other electronics. “Casio Computer Co., Ltd.…
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Pilar Schenk, a former Dell EMC, McAfee and Cisco top sales and operations veteran, is now Amazon Web Servies’ new vice president of global sales. Here’s what her roles were at her former companies. One of Cisco’s key COOs, Pilar Schenk, has left the networking giant to join AWS as its new vice president of…
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Recent cloud security guidance from CISA and the NSA offers a wealth of recommendations to help organizations reduce risk. This blog highlights key takeaways, provides further insights from CIS, and explores how utilizing cloud security posture management (CSPM) and cloud-native application protection program (CNAPP) solutions/services from Tenable can help. This past spring, Tenable reported that…
Read MoreTenable Cloud Risk Report Sounds the Alarm on Toxic Cloud Exposures Threatening Global Organizations
Tenable®, the exposure management company, today released its 2024 Tenable Cloud Risk Report, which examines the critical risks at play in modern cloud environments. Most alarmingly, nearly four in 10 organizations globally are leaving themselves exposed at the highest levels due to the “toxic cloud triad” of publicly exposed, critically vulnerable and highly privileged cloud…
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Oct 08, 2024The Hacker NewsMachine Learning / Data Security Introduction Artificial intelligence (AI) deepfakes and misinformation may cause worry in the world of technology and investment, but this powerful, foundational technology has the potential to benefit organizations of all kinds when harnessed appropriately. In the world of cybersecurity, one of the most important areas of…
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Oct 08, 2024The Hacker NewsWeb Security / Payment Fraud Is your store at risk? Discover how an innovative web security solution saved one global online retailer and its unsuspecting customers from an “evil twin” disaster. Read the full real-life case study here. The Invisible Threat in Online Shopping When is a checkout page, not a…
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Oct 08, 2024Ravie LakshmananCyber Threat / APT Attack Russian government agencies and industrial entities are the target of an ongoing activity cluster dubbed Awaken Likho. “The attackers now prefer using the agent for the legitimate MeshCentral platform instead of the UltraVNC module, which they had previously used to gain remote access to systems,” Kaspersky said,…
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