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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. The challenge of the moment is that many companies already have their hands full trying to improve their security posture as they migrate their legacy, on premises, IT systems to the cloud.

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What Is Penetration Testing? Complete Guide & Steps

eSecurity Planet

Limited tests can focus on narrower targets such as networks, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, physical security, cloud security, web applications, or other system components. Known as black , white , and gray box pentests, these differ in how much information is provided to the pentester before running the simulated attacks.

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NEW TECH: CyCognito employs offensive bot network to put companies a step a head of attackers

The Last Watchdog

One of the most single-minded of these security vendors is startup CyCognito. The company was launched in Tel Aviv in 2017 by a couple of former Israeli military cyber ops attack specialists, Rob Gurzeev and Dima Potekhin. Agility, speed, and modular transactions happen on the fly and in the cloud.

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GUEST ESSAY: Silence on the front lines of strategic cyber assaults belies heightening tensions

The Last Watchdog

It is in these moments, in the last “situation reports” from the military frontlines where a false state of calm and security that belied the coming death of the story’s protagonist. Spin up more security awareness training to help minimize social engineering, phishing and other user-focused attacks. •If

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U.S. Security Agencies Warn About Russian Threat Gangs Amid Ukraine Tensions

eSecurity Planet

11 by the FBI, National Security Agency (NSA) and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) comes as tensions rise between Russia, the United States and European countries over Russia’s military activities related to Ukraine. The joint cybersecurity advisory issued Jan. and Russia over the Ukraine border crisis.

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CyberheistNews Vol 13 #21 [Double Trouble] 78% of Ransomware Victims Face Multiple Extortions in Scary Trend

KnowBe4

In second place, with an average ranking of 3.63, is low security awareness among employees – something only addressed by creating a strong security culture with new-school security awareness training at the center of it all. Blog post with links: [link] [Free Tool] Who Will Fall Victim to QR Code Phishing Attacks?