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GUEST ESSAY: A roadmap for the finance teams at small businesses to improve cybersecurity

The Last Watchdog

million in 2023, according to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report, and over 700,000 small businesses were targeted in cybersecurity attacks in 2020, according to the Small Business Association. These back-ups can also be used to form a disaster recovery plan in the event of a natural disaster. Stay educated.

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The Taxman Cometh for ID Theft Victims

Krebs on Security

The unprecedented volume of unemployment insurance fraud witnessed in 2020 hasn’t abated, although news coverage of the issue has largely been pushed off the front pages by other events. Another 17 percent of claims — nearly $20 billion more – are suspected fraud. This year, that date is Feb.

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Risk Management under the DORA Regulation

IT Governance

2019 (Q2–Q4) 2020 (Q2–Q4) 2021 (Q2–Q4) 2022 (Q2–Q4) Data breaches 855 752 (-12%) 630 (-16%) 648 (+3%) Cyber attacks 143 245 (+71%) 230 (-6%) 285 (+23%) Note 1: The ICO data set only provides the numbers for Q2 2019 until Q4 2022. Authenticity : The validity of the asset cannot be denied. million (about £4.70

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NYDFS settles cybersecurity regulation matter for $3 million

Data Protection Report

(NSC), relating to violations of three different requirements of the NYDFS cybersecurity regulation during the period 2018 to 2020. The regulation requires that a licensee report a cybersecurity event to NYDFS within 72 hours of its determination of the event. NSC reported a second cybersecurity event to NYDFS on May 12, 2020.

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MY TAKE: Why DDoS weapons will proliferate with the expansion of IoT and the coming of 5G

The Last Watchdog

A couple of high-profile distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks will surely go down in history as watershed events – each for different reasons. As it now stands, CoAP does not require authentication to reply with a large response to a small request, Shin told me. Related: IoT botnets now available for economical DDoS blasts.

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Ivanti Policy Secure: NAC Product Review

eSecurity Planet

Policy Secure Ivanti acquired Pulse Secure on December 1, 2020, from Siris Capital. Security information and event management (SIEM): IBM QRadar, Splunk, etc. Previously, Siris Capital had spun off Pulse Secure as a standalone entity after acquiring the company from the enterprise networking leader, Juniper Networks.

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Cryptominer ELFs Using MSR to Boost Mining Process

Security Affairs

The worm scans and exploits existing server based vulnerabilities like CVE-2020-14882 and CVE-2017-11610 from the victim machine. After getting downloaded in the victim system, the worm first scans for vulnerable servers from the victim system to exploit certain known web server vulnerabilities like CVE-2020-14882 and CVE-2017-11610.

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