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2021 Predictions Are Foolhardy – Here Are Four of Mine

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The post 2021 Predictions Are Foolhardy – Here Are Four of Mine appeared first on MediaPRO.

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

eSecurity Planet

A major focus of cybersecurity as an industry is its efforts to detect, root out, and respond to potential fraudsters attempting to trick companies and people out of their money, data, or both. This made a lot of sense, especially in the earlier days of the Internet where cybersecurity measures were nowhere near as robust as they are today.

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Sopra Steria hit by the Ryuk ransomware gang

Security Affairs

Sopra Steria is a member of France’s Cyber Campus , a French initiative to spread cybersecurity awareness, training, and product sales. A few days before, EVRAZ , one of the world’s largest multinational vertically integrated steel making and mining companies, has been hit by the Ryuk ransomware.

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ShadowRay Vulnerability: 6 Lessons for AI & Cybersecurity

eSecurity Planet

Compromised AI workloads: Affect the integrity of AI model results, allow for model theft, and potentially infect model training to alter future results. Hijacked compute: Repurposes expensive AI compute power for attackers’ needs, primarily cryptojacking, which mines for cryptocurrencies on stolen resources.

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NEW TECH: LogicHub introduces ‘virtualized’ security analysts to help elevate SOAR

The Last Watchdog

One of the promising cybersecurity trends that I’ve been keeping an eye on is this: SOAR continues to steadily mature. Security orchestration, automation and response, or SOAR, is a fledgling security technology stack that first entered the cybersecurity lexicon about six years ago. Just ask Capital One , Marriott or Equifax.

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Attacks against machine learning — an overview

Elie

which involve feeding training adversarial data to the classifier. The most common attack type we observe is model skewing, where the attacker attempts to pollute training data in such a way that the boundary between what the classifier categorizes as good data, and what the classifier categorizes as bad, shifts in his favor.

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