eSecurity Planet

JULY 23, 2021

Shawn Smith, director of infrastructure at application security vendor nVisium, told eSecurity Planet that while the vulnerabilities are serious, the silver lining is that both require an attacker to be a local authorized user. “On ‘Noisy’ Vulnerabilities.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Joseph Carson, chief security scientist and advisory CISO at ThycoticCentrify, told eSecurity Planet that the FBI hack “is a reminder that cybercriminals will look for techniques to deliver malicious content under the disguise of legitimate services, this time coming from a legitimate FBI email address.”.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 21, 2021

“The fact that multiple parties contribute to multiplying costs is far from shocking,” the report’s authors wrote. For the report, Cyentia used information from insurance provider Advisen’s Cyber Loss Data, which the authors said contains almost 100,000 cyber events collected from various publicly verifiable sources. “The

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Using POS devices for other tasks: Carson said retailers too often allow users to leverage POS systems for common tasks like checking email or surfing the Web. “This type of poor security practice should be avoided at all costs, as it exposes the company to easily become a victim of cybercrime.”

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