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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. IoT risks have been a low-priority, subset concern. In one very recent caper, the attackers targeted the CFO of a financial services firm, as he worked from home, Sherman says.

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

KnowBe4

Not until an employee sends a reply, runs an attachment, or fills in a form is sensitive information at risk. Grimes, KnowBe4's Data-Driven Defense Evangelist, covers techniques you can implement now to minimize cybersecurity risk due to phishing and social engineering attacks. Learn how to avoid having your end users take the bait.

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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. What are the risks associated with cloud-based services, and how can a data-centric security approach help?

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An Approach to Cybersecurity Risk Oversight for Corporate Directors

Data Matters

A high-profile cyber incident may cause substantial financial and reputational losses to an organization, including the disruption of corporate business processes, destruction or theft of critical data assets, loss of goodwill, and shareholder and consumer litigation. Aligning cyber risk with corporate strategy.

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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. While the tool offers no defense for Exchange Servers that attackers already have access to, it is a sensible first step to diminishing the risk of an attack.