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Japan Joins Key NATO Cyber Agency
PRIVACY PRIVACY Another show of strength for the Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence Read More
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ICO: Department for Education Should Have Been Fined £10m
PRIVACY PRIVACY DfE oversight leads to misuse of data on 28 million children Read More
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How to prepare for a SOC 2 audit – it’s a big deal, so you’d better get ready
PRIVACY PRIVACY Organizations that want to prove to others – and to themselves – that they have a solid cybersecurity and data privacy program will undergo a SOC 2 audit. As such, a SOC 2 audit is a big deal, and it’s demanding, and it requires some serious preparation. SOC audits were created by the…
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FBI: Beware of Cyber-Threat from Russian Hacktivists
PRIVACY PRIVACY Feds claim DDoS attacks are being aimed at critical infrastructure Read More
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LinkedIn Adds Verified Emails, Profile Creation Dates
PRIVACY PRIVACY Responding to a recent surge in AI-generated bot accounts, LinkedIn is rolling out new features that it hopes will help users make more informed decisions about with whom they choose to connect. Many LinkedIn profiles now display a creation date, and the company is expanding its domain validation offering, which allows users to…
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Friday Squid Blogging: Newfoundland Giant Squid Sculpture
PRIVACY PRIVACY In 1878, a 55-foot-long giant squid washed up on the shores of Glover’s Harbour, Newfoundland. It’s the largest giant squid ever recorded—although scientists now think that the size was an exaggeration or the result of postmortem stretching—and there’s a full-sized statue of it near the beach where it was found. As usual, you…
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Qualys previews TotalCloud FlexScan for multicloud security management
PRIVACY PRIVACY Vulnerability management vendor Qualys this week announced the trial availability of its TotalCloud with FlexScan offering, an agentless, cloud-native vulnerability detection and response platform designed for use in multicloud and hybrid environments. The software is designed to provide a holistic overview of an organization’s cloud-based workloads and identify known vulnerabilities. The system also…
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Black Basta Ransomware Attacks Linked to FIN7 Threat Actor
PRIVACY PRIVACY The hacker behind a tool used by Black Basta had access to the source code used by FIN7 Read More
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Geopolitics plays major role in cyberattacks, says EU cybersecurity agency
PRIVACY PRIVACY The ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict has resulted in an increase in hacktivist activity in the past year, with state-sponsored threat actors targeting 128 governmental organizations in 42 countries that support Ukraine, according to the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA). In addition, some threat actors targeted Ukrainian and Russian entities during the early days…
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LockBit Claims Ransomware Attack on Continental
PRIVACY PRIVACY The ransomware gang made the announcement on its leak site Read More