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No, I Did Not Hack Your MS Exchange Server

Krebs on Security

Watson said the Krebsonsecurity file will attempt to open up an encrypted connection between the Exchange server and the above-mentioned IP address, and send a small amount of traffic to it each minute. Here are a few of the more notable examples , although all of those events are almost a decade old. At Least 30,000 U.S.

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What is a Cyberattack? Types and Defenses

eSecurity Planet

Cyber criminals may damage, destroy, steal, encrypt, expose, or leak data as well as cause harm to a system. Encrypted threats spiked 167%, ransomware increased 105%, and 5.4 In May, cybersecurity researchers revealed that ransomware attacks are increasing their aggressive approach by destroying data instead of encrypting it.

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Ransomware, Leakware, Scareware… Oh My!

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Encryption is… a panic room for your data and means you’ve treated your data well by preparing for those smash-and-grab attacks in advance. Those wearing electronic Jason masks have recently stalked other avenues of enterprise torture such as crypto-mining. The Dagger of Choice: Encryption with Strong Access Controls.

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SHARED INTEL: Here’s one way to better leverage actionable intel from the profusion of threat feeds

The Last Watchdog

Centripetal also delivers a Splunk-based SIEM (some clients opt for integration into their existing SIEM) that enables the client and Centripetal’s team of cyberthreat analysts to view events and work directly with the customer to identify malicious threats that are infiltrating the network and exfiltrating data.

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

eSecurity Planet

Cryptojacking , the practice of taking over a computer’s processes in order to mine cryptocurrency, is a popular method of blockchain-related fraud, often introduced via malicious links or by being directly installed on computers by someone with access.

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Federal Agency Data is Under Siege

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Over two-thirds (72 percent) of respondents expressed concerns about increased vulnerabilities from shared infrastructures, followed by custodianship of encryption keys (62 percent) and security breaches in the cloud (68 percent). Many people still think data security (especially encryption) is complex and has a performance problem.

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Application modernization overview

IBM Big Data Hub

While the above is for application decomposition/design, event-storming needs process maps and this is where Generative AI assists in contextualizing and mapping extracts from process mining tools. Generative AI-assisted API mapping called out in this paper is a mini exemplar of this.

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