Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Mitigating Ransomware Attacks – Decoupling Encryption Keys From Encrypted Data. Sophos’ recent report, The State of Ransomware , reveals that paying the ransom can end up costing companies double the overall remediation cost versus not paying or getting the data back through backups or other methods. Wed, 11/25/2020 - 05:55.

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Adam Levin

MAY 24, 2019

In a blog post released this week, the company admitted the passwords of “some” of its G Suite customers had been stored on internal servers without cryptographic protection, also known as a hash. We will continue with our security audits to ensure this is an isolated incident,” announced the blog.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2022

China-linked threat actors have breached telecommunications companies and network service providers to spy on the traffic and steal data. Perform regular data backup procedures and maintain up-to-date incident response and recovery procedures. Protect these accounts with strict network policies [ D3-UAP ]. To nominate, please visit:?.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 23, 2019

While the attack didn’t cause customer outages, or affect the reliability of the grid, it did induce a temporary loss of visibility to the utility’s supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system. All these measures are considered best practices for data protection. electrical grid is effectively attacked.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 15, 2019

The security goals of a smart city—confidentiality, integrity, availability, safety, and resiliency—should be grounded on both the objectives of traditional information technology (IT) to secure data as well as those of operation technology (OT) to ensure safety and resiliency of systems and processes.

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OpenText Information Management

AUGUST 27, 2018

Challenge: Your organization has many users involved in the lifecycle management of important information assets–from knowledge workers to legal associates to system administrators and, yes, Records Managers.

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IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 24, 2023

A hybrid cloud architecture also means too many moving parts and multiple service providers, therefore posing a much bigger challenge when it comes to maintaining highly resilient hybrid cloud systems. The business impact of system outages Let’s look at some data points regarding system resiliency over the last few years.

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KnowBe4

JUNE 13, 2023

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #24 | June 13th, 2023 [The Mind's Bias] Pretexting Now Tops Phishing in Social Engineering Attacks The New Verizon DBIR is a treasure trove of data. Blog post with screen shots and links: [link] A Master Class on Cybersecurity: Roger A. Let's drill down a bit more in the social engineering section. Join Roger A.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

So, whether you’re a developer using a web application scanning tool to assess your own work, or a systems administrator doing your monthly due diligence checks with a vulnerability scanner, or a third-party security company performing a penetration test , you’re likely to use the CVSS. a medium risk [even though 3.5 is normally low].

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 10, 2019

One such go-to APT technique is to remotely leverage legit administrative tools to carry out malicious activities — under cover. The fact that your data is out there, in the public or digital underground, tends to lead the victim of a breach to recognize their data and realize they were the one breached.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2018

It runs on port 111 and responds with universal addresses of the server programs so that client programs can request data through RPCs (remote procedure calls). The data showed that a DDoS attack was in progress, coming from port 111 of several servers, all from other countries. It was on Tuesday, October 16, 2019 at 5:00 p.m.,

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Data Matters

MAY 17, 2018

Specifically, researchers believed that the current version of SB 315 could chill security research—both the purely academic and the “white hats”—ultimately discouraging individuals from identifying vulnerabilities in networks and alerting system administrators of the issues. The incident and Uber’s response prompted the U.S.

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AIIM

DECEMBER 19, 2019

In this blog post, we present an approach and checklist for migrating your information from one system to another. While the details will differ depending on a number of factors (the systems being migrated from and to, the nature of the information being migrated, etc.), Congratulations! But where do you start?

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AIIM

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

For the most part, I’ve stayed away from blogging about AIIM's training for two reasons. First, we wanted these blog posts to be informative and insightful, rather than be perceived as self-aggrandizement. ECM (Specialist and Master) This course focuses on management of unstructured data using content repositories.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 9, 2018

Today, the same doctrine can be applied to enterprise applications and data that is being threatened by a complex dynamic of attack vectors. Privileged users today can include a multitude of people from system administrators, network engineers, and database administrators, to data center operators, upper management, and security personnel.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2019

2014), as described on the MMD blog when MMD detected 5 variants active under almost 15 panels scattered in China network. On the MMD blog. Figure 1: The ARM version of Elknot malware on MMD blog. Content-Length: {SIZE OF SENT DATA}rn. The growth was very rapid at that time (Sept. The Elknot DoS ELF dropped is not new.”.

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CGI

MAY 21, 2018

New tools and technologies can make a big difference, but organizations must first deploy sound policies and processes to protect data and information assets. A system administrator did not apply a patch. Safeguarding data through the use of strong encryption. The basic tenets of securing systems and data still apply.

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IT Governance

JUNE 27, 2019

On 19 March 2019, Norsk Hydro’s systems were infected with the LockerGoga ransomware. TrendMicro’s analysis into the ransomware found that it was the same system administration tool abused by the likes of SOREBRECT and Bad Rabbit. Without our special decoder it is impossible to restore the data.”.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 3, 2019

With more and more organizations embracing digital transformation and accelerating their pace to digitize every piece of information, they become increasingly vulnerable to sophisticated cyber-attacks and data breaches. In a nutshell, no matter it’s data-at-rest or data-in-motion , it should be encrypted regardless of its state.

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Robert's Db2

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Not long ago, a colleague sent to me some DB2 for z/OS buffer pool activity data that a DB2-using organization had sent to him. The DB2 people at this site were alarmed by some of the prefetch-related numbers in the data, and they had requested a review of the information. First, the misinterpreted figures. to 1 for the other pool.

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Robert's Db2

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The back-and-forth exchanges I had with people on this team included information that I think could be of interest to the larger Db2 for z/OS community, so I'm packaging it in this blog entry. not accessing the system through the distributed data facility)? For the "local users" case, the set-up would be as follows.

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Robert's Db2

JULY 16, 2014

A couple of weeks ago, I got a question from a mainframe DB2 DBA about the impact of DB2 buffer pool enlargement on application and system performance. I/O assist processors offload from general-purpose engines a substantial portion -- but not all -- of the work involved in reading and writing data from and to disk. This is not true.

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Robert's Db2

MARCH 9, 2022

In part 1 of this two-part blog entry on thoroughly assessing data security in a Db2 for z/OS environment, I covered four aspects of Db2 data protection: privilege management, client authentication, data encryption and column masks/row permissions. Privileges that were properly granted can be abused. Absolutely.

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IT Governance

APRIL 25, 2023

According to the 2022 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report , insider threats account for 18% of all security incident. Meanwhile, a Ponemon Institute report found that data breaches caused by insiders increased by 14% between 2018 and 2022. We explain everything you need to know in this blog. Who are insider threats?

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KnowBe4

MAY 9, 2023

Blog post with links: [link] A Master Class on IT Security: Roger A. Grimes, KnowBe4's Data-Driven Defense Evangelist, where he'll share a comprehensive strategy for phishing mitigation. Take the following example, provided by Phish Labs: [CONTINUED] Blog post with screenshot: [link] Are Your Users' Passwords. Join Roger A.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 2, 2020

The vulnerability could potentially allow an authenticated attacker to gain access to corporate network, access to sensitive data, and control private clouds within an entire infrastructure. Read other sensitive data related to customers, like full names, email addresses or IP addresses. ” reads the advisory published by VMware.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JUNE 15, 2023

IBM + Anycloud This strategic partnership between IBM and Anycloud offers a secure and easy-to-use service, allowing companies to back up data from Microsoft 365 to the IBM Cloud for data protection. Additionally, Anycloud offers unlimited storage and the opportunity to secure data at a minimal monthly price per user.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 5, 2021

REvil’s last big victim was Kaseya , a Miami-based company whose products help system administrators manage large networks remotely. But REvil’s victim shaming blog would disappear from the dark web just four days later. That attack let REvil deploy ransomware to as many as 1,500 organizations that used Kaseya.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Brian Krebs is an independent investigative reporter known for his coverage of technology, malware , data breaches , and cybercrime developments. Krebs wrote for The Washington Post between 1995 and 2009 before launching his current blog KrebsOnSecurity.com. Dave Kennedy | @hackingdave. Denial-of-Suez attack. Culturally, what changed?

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IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 29, 2023

They also establish baselines to alert system administrators to deviations that indicate actual or potential performance issues. An APM solution brings administrators the instrumentation tools needed to quickly gather data and conduct root cause analysis; they then isolate, troubleshoot and solve that problem.

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Rocket Software

AUGUST 12, 2020

A Rocket Software customer since 2012, the agency uses Rocket Mainstar Catalog RecoveryPlus to ensure uninterrupted access to critical operational data. This system allows for safe, reliable backup and recovery. The agency also uses Rocket VSAM Quick Index to maximize its systems’ data availability without adding resources.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2020

The PerSwaysion campaign proliferates with alarming rates by leveraging compromised accounts’ email data to select further targets who hold important roles in their companies and share business relations with the victims. They dump email data via API and establish the owner’s high-level business connections. Who are “The PerSwayders”?

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Robert's Db2

JUNE 30, 2021

I received an email the other day from a Db2 for z/OS system administrator who had recently attended a workshop on the Db2 REST interface. Wouldn't those areas of system operation end up being bottlenecks that would throttle transaction throughput for client applications?

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CGI

JULY 5, 2018

What is most alarming is that, in addition to advanced cyber attacks aimed at elaborate systems, criminals will use any device connected to the Internet – for example, your mobile phone or a remotely controlled heat pump. See our related blog, “ Not all blockchains are created equal when it comes to energy consumption.”)

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 23, 2018

As more and more organizations across industries migrate to the cloud, they face the concern that they have lost control of their IT infrastructure which could potentially allow their data to be exposed. To avoid this, organizations must ensure that the secure enclave created is truly secure and that there is clear data ownership.

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KnowBe4

MARCH 14, 2023

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #11 | March 14th, 2023 [Heads Up] Employees Are Feeding Sensitive Biz Data to ChatGPT, Raising Security Fears Robert Lemos at DARKReading just reported on a worrying trend. In a recent report, data security service Cyberhaven detected and blocked requests to input data into ChatGPT from 4.2%

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 22, 2020

And yet, school districts, now more so than ever, must take proactive steps to mitigate the same privacy and data security risks as any other small- to medium-sized business (SMB.) That would secure their access to systems and enable policies to be applied to the devices they use for accessing data or managing classes.”

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