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MY TAKE: Why speedy innovation requires much improved cyber hygiene, cloud security

The Last Watchdog

Compliance penalties, lawsuits, loss of intellectual property, theft of customer personal data, and reputational damage caused by poor cyber defenses are now top operational concerns. To demonstrate this, Trend Micro set up a honeypot, imitating an industrial factory, to see how quickly and often it would get attacked.

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SAP systems are targeted within 72 hours after updates are released

Security Affairs

. “Observed exploitation could lead in many cases to full control of the unsecured SAP application, bypassing common security and compliance controls, and enabling attackers to steal sensitive information, perform financial fraud or disrupt mission-critical business processes by deploying ransomware or stopping operations.

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Weekly podcast: ICS attacks, Reddit and SIM swap arrests

IT Governance

Cybereason’s researchers recently set up a honeypot environment with a network architecture that replicated that of “typical power substation” and waited. Only two days after the honeypot was launched, it was attacked by a black-market seller, who installed backdoors that would allow anyone to access it, even if admin passwords were changed.

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EUROPE: Data protection regulators publish myth-busting guidance on machine learning

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

The use of ML systems gives rise to several questions which lawyers and compliance professionals may be uncertain about answering. Authors: Coran Darling , James Clark. In its proposed AI Regulation (“ AI Act ”), the EU recognises AI as one of the most important technologies of the 21 st century. For example: How is the data interpreted?

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Leopard Spots and Zebra Stripes: Big Data and Identity Management

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Because behavioral biometric data can contain confidential and personal information, and reveal sensitive insight, it can also be a high value target and represent a honeypot for attackers. Your spots, in this case, include your ways, habits, and behaviors. Big Data Analytics. Everyone claims to be using “Big Data,” but what is it really?

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Millions of Microsoft web servers powered by vulnerable legacy software

Security Affairs

From the initial results, we filtered out honeypots, which are decoy services or systems set up by security teams and researchers as bait for threat actors. As the economy there matures, there should be more compliance and security guidance in place for them to follow,” says Carr. million websites and web applications worldwide.

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34 Most Common Types of Network Security Protections

eSecurity Planet

Networks are complex and connect to a number of critical components — software, applications, databases, and various types of endpoints — that don’t all operate the same way, making it a complicated challenge to keep threats off the network. It is one component of the greater vulnerability management framework.

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