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Top 8 Cyber Insurance Companies for 2022

eSecurity Planet

Cyberattacks are not only a technological problem for companies, but they also represent a very real financial threat. However, a good cyber insurance provider can also leverage their partnerships to help your company afford better security controls. That’s where cyber insurance may be able to help. million and climbing.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Ethereum Smart Contracts

ForAllSecure

Yannis Smaragdakis , a researcher with Dedaub , found a major vulnerability in Ethereum smart contracts, arguably within the billion-dollar range, that would have made it one of the largest hacks ever—given that it was a theoretically unbounded threat -- had it not been mostly mitigated by the time it went public.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Voting Systems

ForAllSecure

While digital voting systems are more secure today, what about the larger ecosystem, starting from the moment you register until your vote is counted? Who’s keeping those systems secure? Clearly having individual vendors provide the security wasn’t working, so the state moved toward adopting open source software.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Voting Systems

ForAllSecure

While digital voting systems are more secure today, what about the larger ecosystem, starting from the moment you register until your vote is counted? Who’s keeping those systems secure? Clearly having individual vendors provide the security wasn’t working, so the state moved toward adopting open source software.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Voting Systems

ForAllSecure

While digital voting systems are more secure today, what about the larger ecosystem, starting from the moment you register until your vote is counted? Who’s keeping those systems secure? Clearly having individual vendors provide the security wasn’t working, so the state moved toward adopting open source software.

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The debate on the Data Protection Bill in the House of Lords

Data Protector

In our manifesto at the general election we committed to provide people with the ability to require major social media platforms to delete information held about them, especially when that information related to their childhood. When we do the weekly supermarket shop online, we should be able to move our shopping list electronically.

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The History of Malware: A Primer on the Evolution of Cyber Threats

IBM Big Data Hub

Malware is the umbrella term describing numerous types of threats such as: Viruses: A computer virus is defined as a malicious program that cannot replicate without human interaction, either through clicking a link, downloading an attachment, launching a specific application, or various other actions.