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Security in the impending age of quantum computers

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Security in the impending age of quantum computers 09/11/2023 at 09:02 By Help Net Security Quantum computing is poised to be one of the most important technologies of the 21st century. With global governments having collectively pledged more than $38 billion in public funds for quantum technologies and $2.1 billion of new private capital flowing […]

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The 3 key stages of ransomware attacks and useful indicators of compromise

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The 3 key stages of ransomware attacks and useful indicators of compromise 08/11/2023 at 09:02 By Help Net Security For SOC teams to be able to defend their organization against ransomware attacks, they need to have the right security toolset, but also an understanding of the three primary ransomware attack stages. In this article, we

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6 steps to accelerate cybersecurity incident response

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6 steps to accelerate cybersecurity incident response 02/11/2023 at 08:31 By Help Net Security Modern security tools continue to improve in their ability to defend organizations’ networks and endpoints against cybercriminals. But the bad actors still occasionally find a way in. Security teams must be able to stop threats and restore normal operations as quickly

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Vulnerability management metrics: How to measure success

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Vulnerability management metrics: How to measure success 31/10/2023 at 07:32 By Help Net Security Without the right metrics, vulnerability management is pretty pointless. If you’re not measuring, how do you know it’s working? So how do you know what to focus on? The list is potentially endless, and it can be hard to know what’s

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The dangers of dual ransomware attacks

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The dangers of dual ransomware attacks 30/10/2023 at 09:32 By Help Net Security At some point in the movie “Groundhog Day,” Phil Connors breaks his bedside radio when he is woken up (yet again) by the song “I Got You Babe”. This déjà vu seems to await companies that fall victim to ransomware and fail

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OT cyber attacks proliferating despite growing cybersecurity spend

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OT cyber attacks proliferating despite growing cybersecurity spend 26/10/2023 at 07:32 By Help Net Security The sharp increase in attacks on operational technology (OT) systems can be primarily attributed to two key factors: the escalating global threats posed by nation-state actors and the active involvement of profit-driven cybercriminals (often sponsored by the former). The lack

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What is operational risk and why should you care? Assessing SEC rule readiness for OT and IoT

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What is operational risk and why should you care? Assessing SEC rule readiness for OT and IoT 25/10/2023 at 07:31 By Help Net Security The newly released Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) cyber incident disclosure rules have been met with mixed reviews. Of particular concern is whether public companies who own and operate industrial control

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Bracing for AI-enabled ransomware and cyber extortion attacks

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Bracing for AI-enabled ransomware and cyber extortion attacks 24/10/2023 at 07:37 By Help Net Security AI has been the shiniest thing in tech since at least November 2022, when ChatGPT was made available to the masses and unveiled the transformative potential of large language models for all the world to see. As businesses scramble to

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How passkeys are changing the face of authentication

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How passkeys are changing the face of authentication 23/10/2023 at 08:05 By Help Net Security As passwordless identity becomes mainstream, the term “passkey” is quickly becoming a new buzzword in cybersecurity. But what exactly is a passkey and why do we need them? A passkey is a digital credential that can only be used by

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2024 cybersecurity predictions: GenAI edition

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2024 cybersecurity predictions: GenAI edition 19/10/2023 at 12:36 By Help Net Security Unless you have lived under a rock for the past year, you know that generative artificial intelligence applications, such as ChatGPT, have penetrated many aspects of our online lives. From generating marketing content, creating images for advertisements and blogs, or even writing malicious

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The must-knows about low-code/no-code platforms

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The must-knows about low-code/no-code platforms 19/10/2023 at 08:03 By Help Net Security The era of AI has proven that machine learning technologies have a unique and effective capability to streamline processes that alter the ways we live and work. We now have the option to listen to playlists carefully curated to match our taste by

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Reinforcing cybersecurity: The network’s role to prevent, detect, and respond to attacks

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Reinforcing cybersecurity: The network’s role to prevent, detect, and respond to attacks 19/10/2023 at 07:34 By Help Net Security It’s always DNS. That’s what the famous internet meme popular among sysadmins says anyway. It’s funny because while clearly, every network issue doesn’t resolve to some funky DNS issue, too many network admins have banged their

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How to go from collecting risk data to actually reducing risk?

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How to go from collecting risk data to actually reducing risk? 17/10/2023 at 08:17 By Help Net Security Organizations trying to cope with securing their expanding attack surfaces eventually find themselves at a crossroads: they need to move beyond finding risks to effectively mitigating risk. Making that transition starts with a shift from using “risks

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DIY attack surface management: Simple, cost-effective and actionable perimeter insights

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DIY attack surface management: Simple, cost-effective and actionable perimeter insights 16/10/2023 at 11:46 By Help Net Security Modern-day attack surface management (ASM) can be an intimidating task for most organizations, with assets constantly changing due to new deployments, assets being decommissioned, and ongoing migrations to cloud providers. Assets can be created and forgotten about, only

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Quantum risk is real now: How to navigate the evolving data harvesting threat

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Quantum risk is real now: How to navigate the evolving data harvesting threat 13/10/2023 at 07:32 By Help Net Security In an era where data security is paramount, the recent revelations about firmware backdoors implanted by Chinese government-backed hackers serve as a stark reminder of the evolving threat landscape. BlackTech is infiltrating routers to gain

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Keeping up with the demands of the cyber insurance market

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Keeping up with the demands of the cyber insurance market 12/10/2023 at 08:01 By Help Net Security Cyber insurance has been around longer than most of us think. When American International Group (AIG) launched the first cyber insurance policy in 1997, it stepped into completely unknown territory to gain market share. Now, 26 years later,

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Why zero trust delivers even more resilience than you think

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Why zero trust delivers even more resilience than you think 10/10/2023 at 08:04 By Help Net Security Ten years ago, zero trust was an exciting, innovative perspective shift that security experts were excited to explore; today, it’s more likely to be framed as an inevitable trend than as a mere option on the security menu.

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Exploit writers invited to probe Chrome’s V8 engine, Google Cloud’s KVM

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Exploit writers invited to probe Chrome’s V8 engine, Google Cloud’s KVM 09/10/2023 at 13:01 By Zeljka Zorz Google is asking bug hunters and exploit writers to develop 0-day and n-day exploits in Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine and Google Cloud’s Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM). “We want to learn from the security community to understand how they

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Selective disclosure in the identity wallet: How users share the data that is really needed

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Selective disclosure in the identity wallet: How users share the data that is really needed 09/10/2023 at 07:46 By Help Net Security Name, date of birth, address, email address, passwords, tax records, or payroll – all this sensitive user data is stored by companies in huge databases to identify individuals for digital services. Although companies

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Eyes everywhere: How to safely navigate the IoT video revolution

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Eyes everywhere: How to safely navigate the IoT video revolution 05/10/2023 at 12:31 By Help Net Security Cameras are coming to a connected device near you. Cheap image sensors from old mobile phones are flooding the market and bringing video to the Internet of Things (IoT). Vacuum cleaners, bird feeders, connected cars and even smart

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