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Best Practices Q&A: Guidance about what directors need to hear from CISOs — from a board member

The Last Watchdog

CISOs can sometimes be their own worst enemy, especially when it comes to communicating with the board of directors. Related: The ‘cyber’ case for D&O insurance Vanessa Pegueros knows this all too well. She serves on the board of several technology companies and also happens to be steeped in cyber risk governance.

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Prometei botnet is targeting ProxyLogon Microsoft Exchange flaws

Security Affairs

The crypto-mining has a modular structure and employes multiple techniques to infect systems and evade detection. Prometei has been observed to be active in systems across a variety of industries, including: Finance, Insurance, Retail, Manufacturing, Utilities, Travel, and Construction.” ” concludes the report.

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The Scammers’ Playbook: How Cybercriminals Get Ahold of Your Data

eSecurity Planet

Finance and insurance finished a close second at 22.4%. Finance and insurance companies were particularly vulnerable to the sort of phishing scams we’re talking about. According to the 2021 IBM Threat Force Intelligence Index , Manufacturing was the industry most likely to be attacked last year, comprising 23.2%

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To get the most from blockchain in government, a sharing mindset is needed

CGI

At the time, many of the potential applications of a distributed environment—such as one professor’s vision of a distributed air traffic control environment offering immediate, secure communications between every airliner and control tower—were beyond the reach of the available technology. The patient owns it—it is her information, after all.

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Happy 13th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity!

Krebs on Security

You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers. ” SEPTEMBER. KrebsOnSecurity breaks the news that InfraGard , a program run by the U.S.

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Capital One Data Theft Impacts 106M People

Krebs on Security

consumers, and roughly 1 million Social Insurance Numbers (SINs) for Canadian credit card customers. According to the FBI, Thompson also used a public Meetup group under the same alias, where she invited others to join a Slack channel named “ Netcrave Communications.”

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Only Connect: Facebook, From The Eyes of an Old Newbie

John Battelle's Searchblog

What I’ve experienced so far, however, only strengthens my belief that Facebook hasn’t even crawled out of the sea when it comes to understanding the nuances of how people communicate with each other. I also searched for a few folks who came to mind – really close and true pals of mine. It’s rude.

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