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MY TAKE: Why companies and consumers must collaborate to stop the plundering of IoT systems

The Last Watchdog

IoT devices help remotely control our household appliances, power plants, smart buildings, factories, airports, shipyards, trucks, trains and military. In one very recent caper, the attackers targeted the CFO of a financial services firm, as he worked from home, Sherman says. And we’re just getting started.

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The US government sanctioned four entities and one individual for supporting cyber operations conducted by North Korea

Security Affairs

The sanctioned entities conducted operations to steal funds to support the military strategy of the regime. In December 2022, South Korea’s spy agency, the National Intelligence Service, estimated that North Korea-linked threat actors have stolen an estimated 1.5 ” reads the announcement. trillion won ($1.2

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CyberheistNews Vol 13 #13 [Eye Opener] How to Outsmart Sneaky AI-Based Phishing Attacks

KnowBe4

Security awareness training still has a place to play here." New-school security awareness training with simulated phishing tests enables your employees to recognize increasingly sophisticated phishing attacks and builds a strong security culture. Get a look at THREE NEW FEATURES and see how easy it is to train and phish your users.

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NEW TECH: Cequence Security’s new ‘API Sentinel’ helps identify, mitigate API exposures

The Last Watchdog

A great example of this, Keil points out, is the Open Financial Exchange ( OFX , ) the data-stream format that enables wire transfers to be carried out across the Internet. OFX is the financial service industry’s standard for transferring funds,” he says. It’s a series of APIs that allow banks to connect to each other.”

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Ransomware Protection in 2021

eSecurity Planet

With vulnerabilities rooted in unsuspecting users, the task of preventing these attacks means both staff training and a robust email and network security system that includes a strong backup program so you have a recent copy of your data that you can roll back to. Healthcare and financial services are the most attacked industries.

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Capturing Paper Documents - Best Practices and Common Questions

AIIM

Wider and more profitable opportunities exist for organizations to bridge the gap between paper and digital media, especially in traditionally paper-intensive fields such as financial services, healthcare, or government. Continual motivation of people involved in a scanning operation is also vital to achieving a high-quality service.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 15 – 21 January 2024

IT Governance

The first chapter covers the lawful basis for training generative AI models on web-scraped data and is open until 1 March. Microsoft gives all businesses access to AI-powered Office features When Microsoft launched Copilot for Office 365 in November 2023, it required enterprise customers to have at least 300 users.