The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

IoT devices help remotely control our household appliances, power plants, smart buildings, factories, airports, shipyards, trucks, trains and military. Hacking collectives are very proficient at “exploiting weak authentication schemes to gain persistence inside of a targeted network,” Sherman says. And we’re just getting started.

IoT 279

IoT Passwords Artificial Intelligence Risk 279

KnowBe4

MARCH 28, 2023

"A leader tasked with cybersecurity can get ahead of the game by understanding where we are in the story of machine learning (ML) as a hacking tool," Tyson writes. "At At present, the most important area of relevance around AI for cybersecurity is content generation. Remember: Culture eats strategy for breakfast and is always top-down.

Phishing 87

Phishing Security awareness Insurance Cybersecurity 87

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 24, 2018

Originally Featured in Global Military Communications Magazine’s June/July Issue. Its unique capabilities include the design and deployment of equipment, systems and services to meet complex security requirements. Our 2018 Thales Data Threat Report, Federal Edition , issued in conjunction with analyst firm 451 Research, polled U.S.

Encryption 48

Encryption Cloud Data breaches Government 48

ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

For example, here’s Jerry Lewis in a scene from a 1950s film, where he’s trying to break into a Nazi German military base. To use a service, we enter our user name and a password. But this method of authentication is flawed; either hashed or hashed and salted, usernames and passwords can still be stolen and reused.

Passwords 52

Passwords Authentication Access Data breaches 52

The Last Watchdog

JULY 21, 2020

Digital commerce from day one has revolved around companies bulling forward to take full advantage of wondrous decentralized, anonymous characteristics of the Internet, which began a military-academic experiment. The respondents were from organizations that currently host data and workloads in the public cloud.

Cloud 157

Cloud Ransomware Data breaches GDPR 157

eSecurity Planet

MARCH 26, 2021

This vulnerability allows an attacker to make an untrusted connection to Exchange server port 443, allowing them to send arbitrary HTTP requests and authenticate as the Exchange server. REvil uses the Ransomware 2.0 approach in that the attackers copy and exfiltrate a company’s data just prior to encrypting it. The Good News.

Ransomware 57

Ransomware Authentication Financial Services Military 57

Data Matters

APRIL 23, 2018

While there may be no perfect path to cybersecurity, this article provides a roadmap for organizations to consider when seeking to mitigate cyber risk. Its prescription can be understood as an enterprise-level, targeted guidance approach. The first step in addressing cyber risk effectively is to view it as an organization-wide strategic priority.

Cybersecurity 60

Cybersecurity Risk Passwords Authentication 60