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Why Access Governance Is Crucial For Strong Cybersecurity

Data Breach Today

Three Aspects of Governance that Need Consideration If an organization doesn’t know who is accessing what, how can they be trusted to make sure a bad actor isn’t gaining access to data, assets, or systems they shouldn’t?

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Hackers Heart Dormant and Default Credentials for Access

Data Breach Today

federal government says hacker abuse of valid credentials is the most successful method for gaining access to systems and the technique is responsible for slightly more than the half of critical infrastructure attacks that occurred over a yearlong period. US CISA Finds Valid Credentials Used in Half of Analyzed Attacks The U.S.

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'ArcaneDoor' Cyberspies Hacked Cisco Firewalls to Access Government Networks

WIRED Threat Level

Sources suspect China is behind the targeted exploitation of two zero-day vulnerabilities in Cisco’s security appliances.

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China-Based Hacker Hijacked EU, US Government Emails

Data Breach Today

26 Countries Hit by Espionage Group Storm-0558 Through Microsoft Outlook Flaw Security experts say China-based hackers are "leading their peers in the deployment of zero-days" in the wake of another wide-ranging attack that abused a flaw in Microsoft Outlook and used forged authentication tokens to access email accounts of governments in the United (..)

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The Next-Generation Cloud Data Lake: An Open, No-Copy Data Architecture

However, they often struggle with increasingly larger data volumes, reverting back to bottlenecking data access to manage large numbers of data engineering requests and rising data warehousing costs. This new open data architecture is built to maximize data access with minimal data movement and no data copies.

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Hacker Stole Signing Key, Hit US Government's Microsoft 365

Data Breach Today

Monitor Logs to Spot Zero-Day Attack, US Cybersecurity Officials Advise Suspected Chinese hackers gained access to senior U.S. government says logging was key to spotting it. officials' emails by exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft's cloud environment.

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Iranian Hackers Accessed Albania's Network for 14 Months

Data Breach Today

FBI, CISA Detail How Iran Launched Destructive Cyberattack Iranian hackers rambled across the Albanian government's network for 14 months before launching a ransomware and disk wiper attack in July, says the U.S. government.

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Partner Webinar: A Framework for Building Data Mesh Architecture

Speaker: Jeremiah Morrow, Nicolò Bidotti, and Achille Barbieri

Yet they are continually challenged with providing access to all of their data across business units, regions, and cloud environments. In this session, you will learn: How the silos development led to challenges with data growth, data quality, data sharing, and data governance (an example of datamesh paradigm adoption).

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Beware of Pixels & Trackers on U.S. Healthcare Websites

Tracking tools on user-authenticated and unauthenticated web pages can access personal health information (PHI) such as IP addresses, medical record numbers, home and email addresses, appointment dates, or other info provided by users on pages and thus can violate HIPAA Rules that govern the Use of Online Tracking Technologies by HIPAA Covered Entities (..)