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This week saw protests spread across the world sparked by the murder of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, killed by a white police officer in Minneapolis last month.
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The healthcare industry has seen a significant change as of late. The increasing affordance of medical technology has simplified patient care by providing in-depth analytical metrics and lifesaving services. However, the increasing digitization of the healthcare sector has seen it become a frequent target for cybercriminals. In an age where data has been dubbed the…
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The protests and unrest of the last week have produced enormous volumes of footage documenting police brutality and other crimes. Where is the platform for this important evidence to be collected, collated, and made public? If a major tech company doesn’t step up to the plate soon it can only be attributed to hypocrisy and…
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LanguageEnglish To clarify some of the widely used phrases in the cybersecurity sector, we have launched our ‘debunking cybersecurity jargon’ series of blog posts. We have already covered Adaptive Redaction and the Deep Content Inspection Engine and now turn our attention to Information Governance Servers.
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For 40 years, the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) has been used as the key lending benchmark that indicates short-term borrowing costs between banks. Many in the financial world refer to it as the “world’s most important number” as there are nearly $400 trillion in financial contracts that reference LIBOR.
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The CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) has released information on a vulnerability—CVE-2020-12695—affecting versions of the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol released before April 17, 2020. UPnP protocol allows networked devices to discover and connect with each other. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a distributed denial-of-service condition.
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June 9, 2020 • The Recorded Future Team Vulnerabilities are like doors to your organization’s systems and sensitive data. Threat actors only need one unsecured entrance to progress an attack. A single successful exploitation can flip the switch from business as usual to a devastating data breach that impacts every part of the organization.
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Honda has confirmed a cyberattack that brought parts of its global operations to a standstill.
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A vast campaign targeting WordPress-based websites was identified by the Wordfence Firewall as it targeted 1.3 million pages, trying to leverage known plugins and theme vulnerabilities.
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Database security startup jSonar has secured $50 million in new funding from Goldman Sachs.
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One would think it’s a given that investment strategies would change in the strange times we find ourselves. With the economy staggering and so much general uncertainty, it seems caution would be the watchword of the day, especially in the enterprise. But enterprise investors aren’t necessarily looking at what’s going on right now.
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Alarm has been rising in Washington over the extent of Chinese influence in the U.S., with particular focus on universities and their research as well as on concerns around China’s acquisition of critical U.S. technologies that it needs in sectors as diverse as semiconductors and aeronautics.
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The TechCrunch crew has worked to keep tabs on this year’s startup accelerator classes. Conventional wisdom in startup land states that great companies are founded during more trying economic times. Well, a recession was declared yesterday by the National Bureau of Economic Research. We should, therefore, see some breakout startups in the next few years.
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Today, we are announcing the release of KTAE, the Kaspersky Threat Attribution Engine. This code attribution technology, developed initially for internal use by the Kaspersky Global Research and Analysis Team, is now being made available to a wider audience. You can read more about KTAE in our official press release, or go directly to its…
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Hackers are attacking high ranking executives of a German multinational corporation part of a government-private sector task force focused on personal protective equipment (PPE) procurement.
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Japanese automaker Honda has been hit by a cyber-attack which has impacted many of its business operations. The attack happened on Sunday 7th June, and led to problems across Honda’s IT networks in Europe and Japan.
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A survey by data protection firm Veritas Technologies found that more than a third (35%) of UK consumers would see a business leader as personally responsible if a cyber breach of that business occurs. It suggests that more than two-thirds (68%) believe they should be compensated when incidents such as ransomware attacks compromise their data,…
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Columbia College, Chicago has become the third US college in a week to fall victim to a cyber-attack involving the Netwalker family of ransomware. The Illinois educational establishment, along with Michigan State University and the University of California, San Francisco, was targeted by cyber-criminals and given six days to pay a ransom to recover its files.
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As reported by Threatpost, researchers from IBM are warning of an ongoing phishing attack that’s targeting the credentials of more than 100 high-profile executives at a German multinational corporation that’s tasked with procuring coronavirus medical gear for Germany. The company, left unnamed by researchers, is part of a task force created March 30 by the German government and…
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As reported by Reuters, South Africa’s Life Healthcare said on Tuesday its southern African operation was hit by a cyber attack affecting its admissions systems, business processing systems and email servers, but is yet to determine the extent to which data has been compromised.