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MY TAKE: Why companies and consumers must collaborate to stop the plundering of IoT systems

The Last Watchdog

The Internet of Things (IoT) has come a long, long way since precocious students at Carnegie Melon University installed micro-switches inside of a Coca-Cola vending machine so they could remotely check on the temperature and availability of their favorite beverages. In response, threat actors are hustling to take full advantage.

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Types of cyberthreats

IBM Big Data Hub

In the simplest sense, a cybersecurity threat, or cyberthreat, is an indication that a hacker or malicious actor is attempting to gain unauthorized access to a network for the purpose of launching a cyberattack. Almost every modern cyberattack involves some type of malware.

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The Scammers’ Playbook: How Cybercriminals Get Ahold of Your Data

eSecurity Planet

Cybercrime is a growth industry like no other. According to statistics from the FBI’s 2021 Internet Crime Report , complaints to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) have been rising since 2017. Phishing complaints were reported over 300,000 times in 2021 to IC3, the only Internet crime to crack 100,000+ complaints.

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The Eternal Sunshine of the Criminal Mind

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The Eternal Sunshine of the Criminal Mind madhav Tue, 07/18/2023 - 04:29 Everyone who works in cybersecurity or IT knows the frustration of dealing with relentlessly creative threat actors. Why does it seem that threat actors have the advantage in this war? Why does it seem that threat actors have the advantage in this war?

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BEST PRACTICES: How testing for known memory vulnerabilities can strengthen DevSecOps

The Last Watchdog

Related: What’s driving ‘memory attacks’ Yet a funny thing has happened as DevOps – the philosophy of designing, prototyping, testing and delivering new software as fast as possible – has taken center stage. San Jose-based application security vendor, Virsec , is seeking to tilt the balance a bit more to the side of good.

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NEW TECH: Circadence deploys ‘gamification’ training to shrink cybersecurity skills gap

The Last Watchdog

It’s clear that closing the cybersecurity skills gap has to happen in order to make our internet-centric world as private and secure as it ought to be. I had the chance at RSA 2019 to visit again with Circadence security evangelist Keenan Skelly. Give a listen to the full interview via the accompanying podcast.

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MY TAKE: Cyber attacks on industrial controls, operational technology have only just begun

The Last Watchdog

In today’s geopolitical terrain, nation-state backed cyber criminals are widening their targets and starting to zero in on their adversaries’ business and industrial sectors, using more and more sophisticated weaponry to do so. And the risks are multiplying as more digital devices become connected in insufficiently secured environments.

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