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Cyber insurance is a new branch of an old industry. That industry has centuries of experience in insuring shipping and a hundred or more years of insuring motor cars — but only a few decades of cyber knowledge. It has comparatively little knowledge of either cyber risk or the financial insurance risk – and nobody […]
Continue ReadingIn this interview with Help Net Security, Daniel Clayton, VP Global Security Services and Support at Bitdefender, talks about the cybersecurity skills shortage gap and the role of automation in improving the work of cybersecurity professionals. It is crucial for all organizations nowadays to invest in their SOC team to enhance their security posture. How […]
Continue ReadingThe Alaska health department has shared more information about the cyberattack detected earlier this year, and the organization says the attack was conducted by state-sponsored hackers. read more Source: Security Week
Continue ReadingAs adversaries changed their view of an attack to include vectors across an organization, defenders have had to evolve their approach as well. This is best captured by Mark Harris from Gartner who observed that adversaries have shifted their focus of attacks from infecting files to infecting systems and now to infecting the entire enterprise. […]
Continue Reading86.7% of C-suite and other executives say they expect the number of cyberattacks targeting their organizations to increase over the next 12 months, according to a recent Deloitte poll. And while 64.8% of polled executives say that ransomware is a cyber threat posing major concern to their organizations over the next 12 months, only 33.3% […]
Continue ReadingMicrosoft on Tuesday shipped a major security update to blunt zero-day attacks targeting a gaping hole in its proprietary MSHTML browsing engine. read more Source: Security Week
Continue ReadingCisco this week released patches for multiple high-severity vulnerabilities in the IOS XR software and warned that attackers could exploit these bugs to reboot devices, elevate privileges, or overwrite and read arbitrary files. read more Source: Security Week
Continue ReadingThe U.S. government’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) this week announced they are seeking public feedback on draft zero-trust strategic and technical documentation. read more Source: Security Week
Continue ReadingHoward University closed its physical campus and canceled classes this week after experiencing a ransomware attack. read more Source: Security Week
Continue ReadingGoogle on Tuesday published the Android Security Bulletin for September 2021 with patches for a total of 40 vulnerabilities, including seven that are rated critical. read more Source: Security Week
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