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MY TAKE: Why ‘basic research’ is so vital to bringing digital transformation to full fruition

The Last Watchdog

Ongoing basic research in advanced cryptography concepts is pivotal to putting the brakes on widening cyber risks and ultimately arriving at a level of privacy and security that makes sense. Biomedical engineer Dr. Joe Alexander, the former medical director at pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, grabbed a distinguished scientist post, as well.

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New Cybersecurity Directives (NIS2 and CER) Enter into Force

Hunton Privacy

For example, the concept of “essential entities” replaces “operators of essential services”; it is likely that most organizations classified as “operators of essential services” under the original NIS Directive will be classified as “essential entities” under the NIS2 Directive. Reporting of incidents. Enforcement.

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Half of EDR Tools, Organizations Vulnerable to Clop Ransomware: Researchers

eSecurity Planet

Cymulate ran 3,107 assessments across 340 organizations recently to see if security controls were adequate against the Clop (sometimes called “Cl0p” with a zero) ransomware group’s exploitation of a MOVEit software vulnerability ( CVE-2023-34362 ). Endpoint Security: Install and update antivirus software on all hosts.

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Mobile Malware: Threats and Solutions

eSecurity Planet

While the total volume of mobile malware is a fraction of that created for desktops, it is nonetheless a growing security concern, as more and more high-value and sensitive tasks are performed on mobile devices. Security researchers at Kaspersky determined that it accounted for 61.43% of mobile malware detected in Q1 2021. ransomware?

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The Value of Data Governance and How to Quantify It

erwin

For example, one global pharmaceutical giant reduced cost by 70 percent and generated 95 percent of production code with “zero touch.” Take the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as an example of a data cost. Strengthen data security.

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Winnti uses a new PipeMon backdoor in attacks aimed at the gaming industry

Security Affairs

The APT group targeted organizations in various industries, including the aviation, gaming, pharmaceuticals, technology, telecoms, and software development industries. Experts noticed that modules are stored encrypted on disk at the same location with inoffensive-looking names. ” continues the report. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Connecting the Bots – Hancitor fuels Cuba Ransomware Operations

Security Affairs

An example of spam email content Clicking the malicious link obviously leads to downloading a weaponized document. For example, adversary used net view command to collect information about the hosts in the network and nltest utility to collect information about the compromised domain. The keys are encrypted with RSA-4096 algorithm.