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MY TAKE: Why companies and consumers must collaborate to stop the plundering of IoT systems

The Last Watchdog

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.

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CyberheistNews Vol 13 #13 [Eye Opener] How to Outsmart Sneaky AI-Based Phishing Attacks

KnowBe4

In a statement by Xavier Chango, the National Head of Forensic Science, "It's a military-type explosive, but very small capsules." While researching his recent book Hacking Multifactor Authentication, Roger tested over 150 MFA solutions. Per the Ecuadorian government, these attacks were fueled by attempts to intimidate the media.

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Federal Agency Data is Under Siege

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

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.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Going Passwordless

ForAllSecure

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.

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The Microsoft Exchange Attack Saga Continues

eSecurity Planet

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. A disturbing 23% of all attacks have been levied on Government and Military organizations, followed by Manufacturing (15%) and Financial Services (14%). .

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Q&A: Sophos poll shows how attackers are taking advantage of cloud migration to wreak havoc

The Last Watchdog

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. Shier: Compliance with GDPR has provided an incentive for some companies to do the bare minimum. has done well, too.

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An Approach to Cybersecurity Risk Oversight for Corporate Directors

Data Matters

Integrity describes encryption that provides protection of an information system from unauthorized modification through the use of authentication algorithms that calculate an authentication code or digital signature as a function of the protected data and a separate cryptographic key. Source Authentication.