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When least privilege is the most important thing

CIO Business Intelligence

Organizations that follow the principle of least privilege can improve their security posture by significantly reducing their attack surface and risk of malware spread. In the early days of Windows operating systems up through Windows XP, almost any program a user would launch would have administrator-level privileges.

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'Crack' Software Leads to Ryuk Ransomware Attack

SecureWorld News

Someone trying to save a few bucks on a software license triggered a Ryuk ransomware attack against a life sciences research institute. The attack cost the institute a week's worth of vital research data due to the fact that backups were not fully up to date. It's great when Windows Defender does its job.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: EP 69 Self-Healing Operating Systems

ForAllSecure

Rather than restoring from a backup the entire operating system, which gets you everything up until the moment of that last backup, then you still have to add in what’s missing. What if we could further evolve the basic operating system beyond just managing resources but also now mitigating any malware trying to make changes.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Voting Systems

ForAllSecure

Again, there's problems all across that decentralized nature of verifying somebody's image on a registered driver's license credential, or whatever it may be, but in terms of their technical controls, to get into that, we could talk about that a little bit in terms of these platforms right? In this case Voatz owns the entire system.

System 52
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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Voting Systems

ForAllSecure

Again, there's problems all across that decentralized nature of verifying somebody's image on a registered driver's license credential, or whatever it may be, but in terms of their technical controls, to get into that, we could talk about that a little bit in terms of these platforms right? In this case Voatz owns the entire system.

System 52
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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Voting Systems

ForAllSecure

Again, there's problems all across that decentralized nature of verifying somebody's image on a registered driver's license credential, or whatever it may be, but in terms of their technical controls, to get into that, we could talk about that a little bit in terms of these platforms right? In this case Voatz owns the entire system.

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