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The worst cyber attacks of 2021

Security Affairs

CNA Financial (March 2021) – CNA Financial, one of the largest insurance companies in the US, reportedly paid a $40 ransom to restore access to its files following a ransomware attack that took place in March. Because the tool was too slow, the company used its backups to restore the systems.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 188 – News of the week

Security Affairs

Flaws in several self-encrypting SSDs allows attackers to decrypt data they contain. Group-IB and CryptoIns introduce the worlds first insurance against cyber threats for cryptocurrency exchanges. Apache Struts users have to update FileUpload library to fix years-old flaws. Shellbot Botnet Targets IoT devices and Linux servers.

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7 Essential DevSecOps Best Practices Every Development Team Should Implement

ForAllSecure

These strategies could include implementing input validation to prevent SQL injection, using encryption to protect sensitive data, and implementing rate limiting to prevent brute-force attacks. For example, let's say a team is using a popular open-source library in their application.

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GDPR Compliance Obligations: The relationship between Data Controllers and Third-Party Processors

AIIM

Such machine learning technologies are designed to identify and extract relevant provisions within agreements through a combination of pre-built clause libraries and learn-by-example techniques that continuously improve both recall and precision of agreements reviewed.

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Bitdefender vs. McAfee: Consumer & Enterprise Endpoint Security Software Compared

eSecurity Planet

Bitdefender Premium Security encrypts all incoming and outgoing traffic on your devices with its VPN solution to protect against cyber threats across operating systems (OSs) and provides comprehensive online anonymity. Key Differentiators. The platform duly makes recommendations for remediation and prioritization.

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Best Digital Forensics Tools & Software for 2021

eSecurity Planet

The Sleuth Kit enables administrators to analyze file system data via a library of command-line tools for investing disk images. Be it advanced locks, encryption barriers, or deleted and unknown content, the UFED (Universal Forensic Extraction Device) can extract physical and logical data.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Going Passwordless

ForAllSecure

So by that, I mean, if your developer libraries are available, it's easy to do. Vamosi: In the 1970s, while working for Bell Labs, Robert Morris Sr came up with the idea of a one way algorithm, a means of encryption that can’t easily be decrypted. Well, actually, well, if you encrypt the password, it can be decrypted.