Navigating the different types of VPNs can be overwhelming, especially for beginners. VPN protocols might seem like random combinations of letters and numbers without any clear meaning. To simplify things, I’ll explain the key differences between the protocols used by…
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FBCS Data Breach Affects 4.2 Million Americans
Financial Business and Consumer Solutions (FBCS), a debt collection agency, has announced that a data breach in February 2024 has now affected 4.2 million people in the U.S. This is a drastic rise from previous reports and underscores the…
Guarding Privacy: Cutting-Edge Technologies for Data Protection
Data has become a valuable commodity in today’s digital era. It innovatively drives businesses to make informed decisions and personalized experiences for their customers, optimize operational efficiency, and accurately predict market trends. However, data’s immense value comes with an equally…
Vulnerability Recap 7/29/24 – Multiple Old Security Flaws Reappear
This week’s vulnerabilities include multiple issues from previous years. Read more about the flaws your team needs to patch as soon as possible. The post Vulnerability Recap 7/29/24 – Multiple Old Security Flaws Reappear appeared first on eSecurity Planet. This…
Why You Should Hate the Proposed UN Cybercrime Treaty
International UN treaties aren’t usually on users’ radar. They are debated, often over the course of many years, by diplomats and government functionaries in Vienna or New York, and their significance is often overlooked or lost in the flood of…
Critical Flaw in Acronis Cyber Infrastructure Exploited in the Wild
Cybersecurity company Acronis is warning that a now-patched critical security flaw impacting its Cyber Infrastructure (ACI) product has been exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-45249 (CVSS score: 9.8), concerns a case of remote code execution that stems…
India Cybersecurity: Key Government Initiatives for Cybersecurity
Indian Government to Enforce Robust Cybersecurity Measures < div> The Indian Government has done it again, reinforcing its main strategies to improve cyber defenses and protect its citizens in the digital space. In April 2024, the Indian government released a…
Some good may come out of the CrowdStrike outage
Estimated financial losses due to the recent massive IT outage triggered by the faulty CrowdStrike update are counted in billions, but the unfortunate incident is having several positive effects, as well. Some silver linings As CrowdStrike was forced to explain,…
Don’t Get Hacked! Essential Cybersecurity Tips You Need To Know
Technology in the digital age has revolutionized our lives. However, this convenience comes with a growing threat: cybercrime. Malicious actors, ranging from petty thieves to sophisticated cybercriminals, operate online, seeking to exploit vulnerabilities and steal sensitive information, financial data, and…
Optical fibers fit for the age of quantum computing
A new generation of specialty optical fibers has been developed by physicists to cope with the challenges of data transfer expected to arise in the future age of quantum computing. This article has been indexed from Hacking News — ScienceDaily…
HealthEquity: 4.3 Million People Affected by Data Breach
Some 4.3 million people had their personal and health care information compromised by hackers who were were able to access the data by breaching the account of a business partner of HealthEquity. The post HealthEquity: 4.3 Million People Affected by…
Accelerate incident response with Amazon Security Lake – Part 2
This blog post is the second of a two-part series where we show you how to respond to a specific incident by using Amazon Security Lake as the primary data source to accelerate incident response workflow. The workflow is described…
Ransomware attacks are inevitable on Paris Olympics 2024
A recent study by ExtraHop reveals that ransomware attacks on the Paris 2024 Olympics are almost unavoidable. Over the past year, the IT infrastructure supporting the games has been a frequent target, with some incidents resulting in ransom payments totaling…
LockBit Lies Prove Another Reason to Never Pay the Ransom
On June 23, 2024, the LockBit cybercriminal group that offers ransomware as a service (RaaS) announced that it had infiltrated the systems of the Federal Reserve, compromising thirty-three terabytes of sensitive banking information. The notorious ransomware group gave the Federal…
July 2024 Web Server Survey
In the July 2024 survey we received responses from 1,104,170,084 sites across 270,429,856 domains and 12,891,416 web-facing computers. This reflects an increase of 2.7 million sites, 1.3 million domains, and 25,984 web-facing computers. Cloudflare experienced the largest gain of 2.7…
SIEM is not storage, with Jess Dodson (Lock and Code S05E16)
This week on the Lock and Code podcast, we speak with Jess Dodson about SIEM selection, management, and proper data collection. This article has been indexed from Malwarebytes Read the original article: SIEM is not storage, with Jess Dodson (Lock…
How the Change Healthcare attack may affect cyber insurance
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What is GDPR? Compliance and conditions explained
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Acronis Cyber Infrastructure bug actively exploited in the wild
Acronis warns of a critical vulnerability in its Acronis Cyber Infrastructure (ACI) solution that is being actively exploited in the wild. Acronis is warning of a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-45249 (CVSS score of 9.8), in its Acronis Cyber Infrastructure…
Mandiant: North Korean Hackers Are Targeting Naval Tech
Google Cloud’s Mandiant cyber researchers have upgraded Andariel, also known as Onyx Sleet, Plutonium, and Silent Chollima, to an official advanced persistent threat (APT) group, alerting that it is targeting extremely sensitive atomic secrets and technology as North Korea…