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Corporate Security Alert: Identifying Dangerous Apps on Employee Phones

This article uncovers hidden security risks of popular apps on work devices, covering social media, messaging, cloud storage, gaming, utility, health, VPN, and shopping apps, with recommendations to safeguard corporate data.

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20.9.2024

NIS2 national legistation, ransomware and a new development forum: Cyberday product and news round-up 9/2024 🛡️

This is the September news and product review from Cyberday. Read news about ransomware, new phishing techniques and local NIS2-legistations.

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20.9.2024

IT and OT Cyber Security: Different Environments, Different Priorities

This blog post outlines the key differences between IT and OT cyber security, focusing on their distinct areas, objectives, environments, threat landscapes, and compliance requirements.

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4.9.2024

Cyber Security in Supply Chain Risk Management

Businesses should prioritize supply chain security by adopting best cyber security practices, fostering resilience, and promoting collaboration to protect against evolving cyber threats. Learn more about this topic in this blog post.

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22.8.2024

Spreadsheet vs. ISMS tool - top 10 reasons why a tool is better than the traditional way

Discover the top 10 reasons why agile tools outperform traditional spreadsheets in managing cyber security compliance, from centralized management to continuous improvement.

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22.8.2024

ISMS Essentials: Mastering a Data System Inventory for Your Organization

This post provides essential insights for maintaining a data system inventory within your organization's ISMS, detailing key processes, asset types, and tackling common challenges.

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15.8.2024

Incident Detection: Building, Nurturing, and Continuously Improving a Proactive Environment

Shift from reactive to proactive incident detection. Use advanced tools, continuous learning, and customised strategies to anticipate and prevent issues. Focus on constant improvement and innovation to boost security and resilience.

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15.8.2024

ISO 27001 and ISO 9001: Differences, how they work together and benefits of combining

Learn about the synergy between ISO 27001 and ISO 9001. Learn how integrating these standards enhances information security, quality management, and overall operational efficiency, using case examples and actionable insights.

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6.6.2024

Big Microsoft data breach – 250 million records exposed

Microsoft has today announced a data breach that affected one of its customer databases.

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15.5.2020
Illegal Personal Data Processing

9 Principles to Simplify Security

This isn't a one-size-fits-all situation. Simplify as much as you can, as the saying goes, but no more than that.

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15.5.2020
CyberNow

Magento 2.3.4 Patches Critical Code Execution Vulnerabilities

Magento 2.3.4 was released this week with patches for six vulnerabilities, including three that are considered critical. The first of these severe security issues is related to deserialization of untrusted data. Tracked as CVE-2020-3716, the bug could lead to arbitrary code execution. read more

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15.5.2020
Unpatched Vulnerabilities

Predictions 2020: Cybersecurity in the New Year

A look ahead at the state of cybersecurity in the coming year Heading into 2019, the jury was still out on whether the number of data breaches would increase or decrease this year. In 2018, the number of breaches in the U.S. dropped for the first time in about five years. Good news, right? Well,..The post Predictions 2020: Cybersecurity in the New Year appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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15.5.2020
CyberNow

How Web Application Firewall (WAF) protects your website

By Waqas Why a Web application firewall is a vital tool to keep websites safe from cyber attacks. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: How Web Application Firewall (WAF) protects your website

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15.5.2020
Unpatched Vulnerabilities

Why You Should Be Prepared to Fight Against Advanced Persistent Threats

APTs may already be targeting your organization. You need to formulate comprehensive cybersecurity strategies, implement robust and stringent security measures, and test your defenses to ensure that you’re protected.

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15.5.2020
CyberNow

Oscar Nominated Movies Featured in Phishing, Malware Attacks

Attackers are exploiting the hype surrounding this year's Oscar Best Picture nominated movies to infect fans with malware and to bait them to phishing websites designed to steal sensitive info such as credit card details and personal information. [...]

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15.5.2020
Phishing

Ako Ransomware Uses Spam to Infect Its Victims

It has been discovered that the network-targeting Ako ransomware is being distributed through malicious spam attachments that pretend to be a requested agreement. Last week we reported on the Ako Ransomware and how it was targeting companies with the intent to encrypt their entire network. ID Ransomware Submissions David Pickett, a Senior Cybersecurity Analyst at AppRiver, reached out to BleepingComputer yesterday to tell us that his company saw the Ako ransomware being distributed through spam email. Spam email distributing the Ako Ransomware Attached to these emails is a password-protected zip file named agreement.zip with the password '2020' being given in the email. Agreement.zip Archive As shown by this report from JoeSandbox, when Ako is executed it will encrypt the victim's files and leave them with a ransom note named ako-readme.txt. Ako Ransom Note As spam is being used to spread the Ako Ransomware, everyone must be is trained on how to properly identify malicious email and not open any attachments without first confirming who and why they were sent.

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15.5.2020
Ransomware

What’s preventing organizations from making pragmatic security decisions?

Human beings are poor judges of risk. For example, we perceive the risk of air travel to be higher than it actually is after a fatal aviation-related accident happens. We also tend to dismiss risks just because we don’t see a tangible negative impact right away. This is, for example, what prevents many from making dental hygiene a priority: we all know dental hygiene is critical to our health and a relatively easy “investment”, but … More → The post What’s preventing organizations from making pragmatic security decisions? appeared first on Help Net Security.

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15.5.2020
Employee Negligence