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Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2023 – What it is and why we should be aware

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2023 – What it is and why we should be aware madhav Tue, 10/03/2023 - 05:33 The inception of Cybersecurity Awareness Month in 2004 came at a critical juncture in our technological history. This dynamic environment has necessitated a consistent evolution in our cybersecurity strategies.

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Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Resilient Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) and Strong Passwords

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Resilient Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) and Strong Passwords. Historically, October has always been an important month for the cybersecurity community and a month of major cybersecurity events. So in 2004, the President of the United States designated October as Cybersecurity Awareness Month.

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Cybersecurity Training and Tech Aren’t Enough; ‘Culture Change’ Needed

eSecurity Planet

Companies spend a staggering amount of money on cybersecurity products to defend their networks and data from hackers, but a couple of industry pros say that money is wasted if companies don’t change their internal cybersecurity culture. In 2004, the global cybersecurity market was worth just $3.5 trillion by 2025.

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Last Watchdog podcast: Unwrapping ‘resilience’ guidance discussed at RSA Conference 2021

The Last Watchdog

I’ve been covering this cybersecurity gathering since 2004 and each year cybersecurity materially advances. Snell is vice president of security strategy; his resume includes a stint as McAfee’s cybersecurity and privacy director. Resilience was the theme of RSA Conference 2021 which took place virtually last week.

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New Linux variant of BIFROSE RAT uses deceptive domain strategies

Security Affairs

The Bifrost RAT has been active since 2004, it allows its operators to gather sensitive information, including hostname and IP address. The spike in Bifrost activity observed by Palo Alto Networks started in October 2023, the cybersecurity firm detected more than 100 instances (hashes) of malware samples.

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CISA adds 95 flaws to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog

Security Affairs

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added 95 vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added 95 vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog.

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Security Vulnerability of Switzerland’s E-Voting System

Schneier on Security

Switzerland “solves” the problem of malicious insiders in their printing office by officially declaring that they won’t consider that threat model in their cybersecurity assessment. Here I am saying that in 2004.) Of course, Kuster did not employ a botnet virus to distribute his malware to real voters!

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