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How to Prevent Data Breaches: Data Breach Prevention Tips

eSecurity Planet

With the ever-present threat of data breaches, organizations need to adopt best practices to help prevent breaches and to respond to them when they occur to limit any damage. Prioritize Data Protection The downfall of many security strategies is that they become too general and too thinly spread.

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Ransomware Protection in 2021

eSecurity Planet

The internet is fraught with peril these days, but nothing strikes more fear into users and IT security pros than the threat of ransomware. Attackers will inform the victim that their data is encrypted. A ransomware attack is about as bad as a cyber attack can get. Jump to: What is ransomware? How ransomware works. Ransomware types.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: EP 69 Self-Healing Operating Systems

ForAllSecure

I first met Dan when he was literally saving the world; okay, at least saving the internet as we know it today by disclosing to the major ISPs in the world a flaw he’d found in the Domain Name System or DNS. Dan found a flaw that could have crippled the internet. Over the years, Dan continued to do really great things.