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Microsoft Suffers Breach by Notorious SolarWinds Hackers

SecureWorld News

In this case, an old fashioned 'password spray attack' worked just fine to let attackers in to read management emails. Attackers can always find a way into a network, so regular, air-gapped backups and a rapid response ransomware containment system should be part of the complete defensive stack."

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Zero Trust Security for NIS2 compliance: What you need to know

CIO Business Intelligence

Over 100,00 organizations are expected to be impacted by Network and Information Security Directive (NIS2) cybersecurity standards that European Union (EU) member states must implement by October 2024. [i] Zero Trust network security offers cybersecurity benefits vs. traditional perimeter-based network security models.

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What Should A CIO Do After You’ve Been Hacked?

The Accidental Successful CIO

What you don’t do may be the most important thing Image Credit: Cigac Semiárido CIOs send a great deal of our time trying to secure the company’s networks. We invest in firewalls, two-factor authentication systems, and lots and lots of training for everyone in the company. Companies can avoid 99.9%

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How Bad Actors Are Now Using Vishing

SecureWorld News

The FBI has released a private industry notification detailing how cybercriminals have been exploiting network access and escalating network privilege. Due to this, network access and privilege escalation may not be monitored as closely. Along with this, more automation services are being implemented across networks.

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CIOs And The Problem Of Social Engineering

The Accidental Successful CIO

You are now a hacker that is trying to break into your company’s network because you understand the importance of information technology, want to get money from your company, or do something else that you really should not be doing. It turns out that social engineering attacks rely on something caused psychological authentication.

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DARPA offers $42 million for ‘revolutionary’ research on social media analysis

Trends in the Living Networks

The DARPA announcement states: The conditions under which our Armed Forces conduct operations are rapidly changing with the spread of blogs, social networking sites, and media?]sharing The value for defense intelligence of social media and social network mining is evident. In particular, SMISC will develop automated and semi?]automated

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North Korean Threat Actors Targeting Healthcare Sector with Maui Ransomware

SecureWorld News

By targeting specific files, the attackers get to choose what is sensitive and what to exfiltrate in a much more tactical fashion when compared to a 'spray-and-pray' ransomware. Implement and enforce multi-layer network segmentation with the most critical communications and data resting on the most secure and reliable layer.".