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Canadian Police Raid ‘Orcus RAT’ Author

Krebs on Security

Rezvesz maintains his software was designed for legitimate use only and for system administrators seeking more powerful, full-featured ways to remotely manage multiple PCs around the globe. Still other unbidden communications from Rezvesz were friendly, even helpful with timely news tips.

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Italy: Privacy law integrating the GDPR adopted, what to do?

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

This seems a strong limitation, but among the conducts whose breach can lead to criminal penalties there are also those provided by the ePrivacy Directive in relation to marketing communications which makes the potential risk quite high. If you found this article interesting please share it on your favourite social media.

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CyberheistNews Vol 13 #24 [The Mind's Bias] Pretexting Now Tops Phishing in Social Engineering Attacks

KnowBe4

In this type of attack, the perpetrator uses existing email communications and information to deceive the recipient into carrying out a seemingly ordinary task, like changing a vendor's bank account details. Link to blog: (click on the "Maybe Later" to get to the article:) [link] Let's stay safe out there. Please never promote her.

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Facebook May Have Gotten Hacked, and Maybe It’s Better We Don’t Know

Adam Levin

“I believe a privacy-focused communications platform will be even more important than today’s open platforms,” Zuckerberg said. Denying anything happened gives system administrators more time to identify and patch newly discovered vulnerabilities. This article originally appeared on Inc.com.

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Addressing Remote Desktop Attacks and Security

eSecurity Planet

This article looks at the remote desktop protocol, how RDP attacks work, best practices for defense, the prevalence of RDP attacks today, and how remote desktop software vendors are securing their clients. A few days later, IT systems started malfunctioning with ransom messages following. Remote Desktop Software Features.

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How to Improve SD-WAN Security

eSecurity Planet

This article looks at the security functionality of SD-WAN solutions and how to bolster SD-WAN cybersecurity. This cloud-centric model offers administrators granular network management opportunities while leveraging the bandwidth and reducing the cost of service delivery. Jump ahead for a technical review on SD-WAN.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Ethical Hacking

ForAllSecure

He was indicted on charges of stealing millions of academic articles and journals from a digital archive at MIT. Pretty much hacking is a crime, but I'm even prior to that, and I had kind of been involved in the hacker community and I've done some talks and things like that. But MIT didn’t press charges. It's part of it.

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