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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 …
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Python backdoor attacks and how to prevent them
Python backdoor attacks are increasingly common. Iran, for example, used a MechaFlounder Python backdoor attack against Turkey last year. Scripting attacks are nearly as …
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Social isolation is a risk factor for scam loss
The coronavirus crisis is forcing people to distance themselves from others, work remotely, and spend time indoors and online. While social distancing is a good health …
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Increasing number of false positives causing risk of alert fatigue
More than two-fifths (43%) of organizations experience false positive alerts in more than 20% of cases, while 15% reported more than half of their security alerts are false …
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Top priorities for business leaders during COVID-19 crisis
88% of organizations have encouraged or required employees to work from home, regardless of whether or not they showed coronavirus-related symptoms, according to a Gartner …
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Windows users under attack via two new RCE zero-days
Attackers are exploiting two new zero-days in the Windows Adobe Type Manager Library to achieve remote code execution on targeted Windows systems, Microsoft warns. The attacks …
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How to protect your online streaming accounts from cybercriminals?
Have you secured your streaming services’ accounts? Are you sure someone else, unbeknown to you, isn’t using them as well? As people around the world are being …
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Zyxel NAS, firewalls and LILIN DVRs and IP cameras conscripted into IoT botnets
A wide variety of Zyxel and LILIN IoT devices are being conscripted into several botnets, researchers have warned. Users are advised to implement the provided firmware updates …
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Crowdsourced pentesting is not without its issues
Crowdsourced security isn’t new anymore, having existed in one form or another as a consumable enterprise service since 2013 with the launch of the main crowdsourced platforms …
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Personal data protection today: We should demand more
The growing number of cybersecurity incidents reported each year – and the fact that many attacks remain unreported for security and PR reasons – can leave even …
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2020 cybersecurity risks: Insecure security tools, supply chains, abandonware
Considerable time and money are invested into looking for dangerous vulnerabilities in the most commonly used elements of IT infrastructure. Popular operating systems, …
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AI efforts are maturing from prototype to production, but obstacles remain
More than half of enterprises are in the “mature” phase of AI adoption – defined by those currently using AI for analysis or in production – while about one third are …
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