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New Years Resolutions - Technology Style!

CIO Musings

Security - Let face it folks, it is time to get serious about information security. Remember, the bad guys already have your information, they stole it from someplace else like the federal government, Yahoo, HomeDepot Target or any one of a thousand other places. Get it to the most recent operating system release.

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Browser Isolation: The Missing Piece in Your Security Puzzle

SecureWorld News

This forces IT and information security specialists to constantly enhance protection to effectively counter information security incidents related to malware distribution through rogue websites, links, and email attachments. At the same time, attackers constantly devise new methods and variants of online threats.

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Report Reveals Top Cyber Threats, Trends of 2023 First Half

SecureWorld News

Their attacks begin with tailored spear-phishing emails disguised as job applications, containing personalized Information Security Officer (ISO) images that include signed executables, decoy documents, and malicious DLL files. DarkCloud is an information stealer malware delivered through phishing emails with malicious attachments.

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Timeline: How a Hacker Tried to Poison a City

SecureWorld News

It's important to note that lye (chemical name sodium hydroxide) is often present at very low levels in water systems. In this case, the fact that chemical is present at all created opportunity for the hacker to potentially poison the community. "At It helps control the acidity in the water and that protects pipes.

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Invincea Announces 54 New Enterprise Customers for Its Flagship Enterprise Solution, $8.1M in Advanced Research Contracts for Its Labs Division

CTOvision

A security strategy that only reacts to attacks isn’t acceptable,” said Paul Calatayud, Chief Information Security Officer of Surescripts. “To To be comprehensive and present the strongest defense requires a proactive posture in addressing risks to our network.

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Top 5 Tips to Improve Your Linux Desktop Security 2017

Galido

Having Linux as your operating system is one of the better decisions you can make concerning your computer’s security. Having this OS on your desktop allows you to relax a little bit when it comes to many forms of security breaches, which would probably inflict serious damage to less security-oriented systems.

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Global Effort Seizes EMOTET Botnet

SecureWorld News

In the past, EMOTET email campaigns have also been presented as invoices, shipping notices and information about COVID-19. This is a good start of what I hope to be a long and ongoing collaboration in targeting these type of organizations that can operate beyond any specific countries borders.”.

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