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American Water Shuts Down Services After Cybersecurity Breach

eSecurity Planet

The American Water cyber breach has sparked conversations about the importance of cybersecurity in safeguarding essential services and the growing frequency of cyber threats targeting public utilities. Here are key strategies to prevent cyberattacks like the American Water cyber breach.

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Threat Landscape Report: Uncovering Critical Cyber Threats to Hospitality and Recreation

Digital Shadows

Lets dive into the key findings from this period and explore how organizations in this sector can strengthen their defenses against rising cyber threats. Proactively patching vulnerabilities and securing web applications with firewalls and secure coding practices are also crucial steps.

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Best WordPress Plugins for Cybersecurity 2025

IT Security Guru

We speak with Sierra Six, a leading SEO agency in Essex to get their recommendations on the best plugins for security and to reduce cyber attacks. It provides a firewall that blocks malicious traffic before it reaches your website. It offers a website firewall, which blocks attacks before they can do any harm.

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Top 15 Exploited Vulnerabilities of 2023

SecureWorld News

The aim is to help organizations secure systems and strengthen defenses against today's persistent and complex cyber threats. International cooperation to address cybersecurity threats This advisory marks a significant collaborative effort among leading cybersecurity organizations worldwide.

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What Is a Host-Based Firewall? Definition & When to Use

eSecurity Planet

A host-based firewall is installed directly on individual networked devices to filter network traffic on a single device by inspecting both incoming and outgoing data. How Host-Based Firewalls Work Organizations often adopt host-based firewalls for device-specific security control.

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GUEST ESSAY: NewsCorp hack shows cyber espionage, squelching of press freedom on the rise

The Last Watchdog

China has enclosed its national internet servers within what is colloquially called ‘the Great Firewall.’ ’ This firewall even goes as far as to block the latest versions of the encryption service TLS (v1.3) We have entered a new era of cyber threats. MFA is a must for organizations using SaaS for email.

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Giving Smaller Businesses The Critical Power Of Large Community Threat Intelligence: A High-Level Look at CrowdSec

Joseph Steinberg

In some ways, CrowdSec mimics the behavior of a constantly-self-updating, massive, multi-party, and multi-network firewall. Like a classic network-layer firewall, CrowdSec allows administrators to configure all sorts of OSI Middle Level (i.e., Levels 3 Network and Level 4 Transport) rules. CrowdSec released version 1.0

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