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Addressing Remote Desktop Attacks and Security

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On a Sunday in February 2018, the Colorado CISO’s office set up a temporary server to test a new cloud-based business process. As CISO Debbi Blyth put it, “The server was discovered almost immediately by the attackers.” Read more : Secure Access for Remote Workers: RDP, VPN, & VDI. Calling into Robinhood.

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The Biggest Lessons about Vulnerabilities at RSAC 2021

eSecurity Planet

Prevent Rely solely on offline backups Disallow unnecessary file sharing. While CIOs, CISOs, and purchasing managers often make a faith-based decision on software, greater accountability in software development starting below the OS can lead to more data and risk-driven decisions. Also Read: How to Prevent DNS Attacks.

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2024 State of Cybersecurity: Reports of More Threats & Prioritization Issues

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50,000 DDoS attacks on public domain name service (DNS) resolvers. 553% increase in DNS Flood attacks from 1H 2020 to 2H 2023. DDoS attacks on single networks or websites render them unavailable, but DDoS attacks on DNS resolvers bring down all networks and websites using that DNS resource. 54% on-prem infrastructure.