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GUEST ESSAY: Sure steps to achieve a robust employee cybersecurity awareness training regimen

The Last Watchdog

Employee security awareness is the most important defense against data breaches. Related: Leveraging security standards to protect your company. It involves regularly changing passwords and inventorying sensitive data. There are several ways you can protect your business from data breaches.

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GUEST ESSAY: The drivers behind persistent ransomware — and defense tactics to deploy

The Last Watchdog

The increase in remote workforces and difficulty enforcing security controls with expanding perimeters has played a role in the rise of ransomware. This gives the perpetrator the access needed to launch the ransomware and lock the company out of its own infrastructure or encrypt files until the ransom is paid in cryptocurrency.

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IoT Cybersecurity: 5 Major Vulnerabilities and How to Tackle Them

Security Affairs

A hacker managed to identify a weak spot in a security camera model. Usually, the default settings are not focused on security. As an example, we could use communications between systems that are not properly encrypted. Improper encryption. The Threat is Definitely Real. Vicious insider. What does this mean?

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Smart Cities and Connected Communities - the need for standards

CGI

Smart, connected, sustainable local economies will be powered by renewable and flexible energy that uses data and technology to drive transformation. And city operations and performance will use data and information from both public and private sources to improve the quality of life for all. An all-embracing operational model.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 26 February – 3 March 2024

IT Governance

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Data breached: 183,754,481 records. EasyPark data breach: 21.1 million data records belonging to EasyPark have been listed for sale on a hacking forum.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 266

Security Affairs

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 266 appeared first on Security Affairs. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Reverse Engineering Smart Meters

ForAllSecure

Smart Meters provide the data to support a cleaner future, showing how much energy is being used and how much this will cost you. Vamosi: But as someone who wrote a book questioning the security of our mass produced IoT devices, I wonder why no one bothered to test and certify these devices before they were installed?