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FTX Collapse Highlights the Cybersecurity Risks of Crypto

eSecurity Planet

Ray has wasted little time in assembling a top-notch team, which includes an unnamed cybersecurity forensics firm. ” Also read : Web3 Cybersecurity: Are Things Getting Out of Control? Crypto can also be a way to leverage cybersecurity breaches. One way is through hijacking computer resources to mine cryptocurrencies.

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Cryptocurrencies and cybercrime: A critical intermingling

Security Affairs

Emerging threats Cybercrime often exploits precisely the lack of regulation and centralized controls of cryptocurrencies to deceive investors and embezzle funds through various forms of phishing, investment scams, digital wallet theft, ransomware, and illegal mining.

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New Report on IoT Security

Schneier on Security

The Atlantic Council has published a report on securing the Internet of Things: “Security in the Billions: Toward a Multinational Strategy to Better Secure the IoT Ecosystem.”

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What is a Cyberattack? Types and Defenses

eSecurity Planet

However, basic cybersecurity tools and practices, like patching , strong passwords , and multi-factor authentication (MFA), “can prevent 80 to 90% of cyberattacks,” said Anne Neuberger, deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging technologies, during a White House press conference in Sept. The average cost of a breach is $3.6

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Jen Easterly Takes Charge of CISA At Black Hack USA 2021

ForAllSecure

The new Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Jen Easterly, opened Day 2 of Black Hat USA 2021 with a remote presentation on Hacking the Cybersecurity Puzzle. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is relatively new. Easterly began by presenting her bio. There are 3.5

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NSA, CISA Report Outlines Risks, Mitigations for Kubernetes

eSecurity Planet

Established tech companies – including Red Hat (now owned by IBM) with OpenShift, VMware with Tanzu and Canonical, as well as top cloud providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud – have since embraced Kubernetes as a key part of their larger hybrid cloud strategies.

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MY TAKE: Why DDoS weapons will proliferate with the expansion of IoT and the coming of 5G

The Last Watchdog

Three years later, October 2016, a DDoS attack, dubbed Mirai, topped 600 gigabytes per second while taking aim at the website of cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs. Here we are in 2019 and the same attack strategy continues to persist. His blog, Krebs on Security , was knocked down alright. A10 Networks’ report found 6.3 Beyond DDoS.

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