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Asia could be placing all the wrong cybersecurity bets
PRIVACY PRIVACY Over two-thirds (69%) of security leaders in Asia are confident about their organization’s cybersecurity resilience, even as 48% also admit that there is still room for improvement, a new joint study by Microsoft and risk advisory firm Marsh has found. The Asian edition of The State of Cyber Resilience report, which had over…
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Official British Army Twitter and YouTube accounts hijacked by NFT scammers
PRIVACY PRIVACY Hundreds of thousands of people who follow the official social media accounts of the British Army may have been surprised to see that it had been hijacked by hackers on Sunday. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Read More
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British Army Social Media Accounts Hijacked
PRIVACY PRIVACY Hackers used them to promote crypto scams Read More
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ICO Set to Scale Back Public Sector Fines
PRIVACY PRIVACY Regulator unconvinced large fines are effective deterrent Read More
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Zero-day flaw in Atlassian Confluence exploited in the wild since May
PRIVACY PRIVACY Software firm Atlassian released emergency patches for its popular Confluence Server and Data Center products after reports came to light late last week that attackers were exploiting an unpatched vulnerability in the wild. According to data from Cloudflare’s web application firewall (WAF) service, the attacks started in late May. The vulnerability, now tracked…
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11 top cloud security threats
PRIVACY PRIVACY Identity and access issues topped the list of concerns of IT pros in the Cloud Security Alliance’s annual Top Threats to Cloud Computing: The Pandemic 11 report released earlier this month. “Data breaches and data loss were the top concerns last year,” says CSA Global Vice President of Research John Yeoh. “This year,…
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HackerOne Insider Defrauded Customers
PRIVACY PRIVACY Former employee re-submitted vulnerability data for personal gain Read More
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Lessons from a dual career: Happiest Mind’s CISO Vijay Bharati
PRIVACY PRIVACY Vijay Bharati, CISO and senior vice president of cybersecurity practice at Happiest Minds Technologies, ranks among the few enterprise cybersecurity practitioners who handle both the overall cybersecurity business and internal security for the company. Bharati has more than 22 years of experience across multiple domains such as identity and access management, data security,…
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Friday Squid Blogging: Multiplexing SQUIDs for X-ray Telescopes
PRIVACY PRIVACY NASA is researching new techniques for multiplexing SQUIDs—that’s superconducting quantum interference devices—for X-ray observatories. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here. Read More
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Microsoft Spots Updated Cryptomining Malware Tool Targeting Linux Systems
PRIVACY PRIVACY The malware also reportedly features self-propagating capabilities Read More