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Top Deception Tools for 2022

eSecurity Planet

Security vendors and startups use deception techniques to confuse and befuddle attackers. If an attacker is spending time and energy breaking into a decoy server, the defender is not only protecting valuable assets, but also learning about the attacker’s objectives, tools, tactics, and procedures. But it can work the other way.

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Israel surveillance firm NSO group can mine data from major social media

Security Affairs

The Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group informed its clients that it is able to scoop user data by mining from major social media. The Financial Times reported that the Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group informed its clients that it is able to mine user data from major social media. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Cyber Security’s Impact on Climate Change: What Can Organisations Do?

IT Governance

IT Governance found more than 1,200 publicly disclosed security incidents in 2021 , which correlates to society’s increasingly reliance on computers and the expanding influence that criminal hackers have. Then there’s blockchain mining. Most obviously, cyber crime by its nature involves the use of computers, which consume energy.

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FBI, CISA Echo Warnings on ‘Vishing’ Threat

Krebs on Security

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday issued a joint alert to warn about the growing threat from voice phishing or “ vishing ” attacks targeting companies. Restrict VPN access hours, where applicable, to mitigate access outside of allowed times.

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Happy Data Privacy Day: City Planning Now Mines Everyone’s Data All the Time

Adam Levin

Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of Google’s parent company Alphabet, is the go-to story for Data Privacy Day with its new “user-friendly” tool called Replica, which allows city planners see “how, when, and where people travel in urban areas.”. The Intercept’s explainer details a troubling use of consumer data.

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DarkGate malware campaign abuses Skype and Teams

Security Affairs

The format is used to to trick the user into believing the file is a.PDF document instead of a VBA script ( www.skype[.]vbs). “Researchers from Truesec documented a similar DarkGate technique in early September. ” concludes the report.

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Security Considerations for Data Lakes

eSecurity Planet

Many of the basic principles for securing a data lake will be familiar to anyone who has secured a cloud security storage container. However, data lakes add additional elements such as data feeds, data analysis (data lake house, third-party analysis tools, etc.) Data Lake Security Scope.

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