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LW ROUNDTABLE: Wrist slap or cultural shift? SEC fines cyber firms for disclosure violations

The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

As organizations continue facing escalating cyber threats, how they communicate multiplying and rapidly morphing cyber exposures – in essence how much they choose to abide by industry standards and embrace ethical practices — remains under intense scrutiny. There is only one path forward: transparency.

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Spotlight Podcast: CSO Chris Walcutt on Managing 3rd Party OT Risk

The Security Ledger

MAY 16, 2024

In this Spotlight Podcast, host Paul Roberts talks with Chris Walcutt, the CSO of DirectDefense about the rising cyber threats facing operational technology (OT) and how organizations that manage OT - including critical infrastructure owners can best manage increased cyber risks to OT environments. For Hacking.

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Security Roundup April 2025

BH Consulting

APRIL 30, 2025

Third-party risk rises as a factor in breaches: Verizon DBIR 2025 Verizons latest annual Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) shows some concerning trends with a sharp escalation in global cyber threats. CSO Online marked the progress as 66 per cent done.

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Make them pay: Hackers devise new tactics to ensure ransomware payment

CSO Magazine

MAY 10, 2023

Ransomware remains one of the biggest cyber threats that organizations and governments continue to face. However, hackers are engineering new ways to extract ransom from their victims as organizations take a conscious call to decline ransom payment demands.

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Survey: Alarming Number of IT Professionals Told to Conceal Breaches

SecureWorld News

APRIL 10, 2023

Failing to report a data breach creates a variety of challenges, including underestimating the level of cyber threat activity, legal jeopardy, and brand reputational damage. For other countries surveyed, which included France, Italy, Germany, Spain, and the U.K., the figure was below the global average.

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Massive threat campaign strikes open-source repos, Sonatype spots new CursedGrabber malware

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Sonatype has discovered more malware in the npm registry which, following our analysis and multiple cyber threat intelligence reports, has led to the discovery of a novel and large scale malware campaign leveraging the open-source ecosystem. Since launching Release Integrity out of beta on Oct.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: CISA Calls for Stamping Out Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities, as Europol Tells Banks To Prep For Quantum Threat

Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Watch the on-demand webinar , in which Phillip Hayes, Tenables Director of Information Security, and Michael Garman, Tenables Senior Manager of Technology Engineering, discuss a variety of cloud security best practices. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.)

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15 Top Cybersecurity Certifications for 2022

eSecurity Planet

JUNE 21, 2022

My advice for anybody that asks me which certifications they should get is this: find a certification in a subject that you wish to learn about,” Palo Alto Networks CSO Rick Howard said. “If It’s designed for system analysts, security analysts, network engineers, network administrators, and hands-on security managers.

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Battling Burnout: A Growing Concern for CISOs and Security Professionals

SecureWorld News

JUNE 20, 2024

The report claims that a 600% rise in cyber threats since the COVID-19 pandemic has led to increased stress levels for those working in the cybersecurity sector. Higher up, engineers are perpetually tuning those products, while implementing other products in an, often tactical, game of whack-a-mole.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Tenable Report Warns About Toxic Cloud Exposures, as PwC Study Urges C-Suite Collaboration for Stronger Cyber Resilience

Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The most common types of attacks were social engineering; malware; denial of service; and compromise of unpatched systems. Google Kubernetes Engine. CIS Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Benchmark v1.6.1 Microsoft Azure Foundations. Those are some of the CIS Benchmarks updated in September by the Center for Internet Security.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Social engineering attacks , including phishing, spam, and viruses introduced via clickable links within e-mail affected 80% of the banking institutions in 2016. VoIP phishing and impersonation also victimized millions of corporate employees across the world , contributing to an even greater cyber threat.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: CISA Warns of Global Spear-Phishing Threat, While OWASP Releases AI Security Resources

Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

To get more details, check out the CISA alert “ Foreign Threat Actor Conducting Large-Scale Spear-Phishing Campaign with RDP Attachments. ” That’s the main takeaway from the Center for Internet Security’s list of the 10 most prevalent malware used during the third quarter.

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LW ROUNDTABLE: Cybersecurity takeaways of 2023 — and what’s ahead in 2024 ( part 2)

The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The best cloud-native SIEM tools enable security and business teams to have a shared understanding of their organization’s security posture and the same interpretation of each and every threat. Cloud-native SIEM empowers organizations to effectively protect their valuable assets and data from an ever-growing array of cyber threats.

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Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Security Experts Reflect on Safety

CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Cyber attacks nowadays do not often come from ingenious ‘hackers’ in dark rooms, they’re often the result of an employee reusing the same password, or businesses not implementing basic practices such as multi-factor authentication. By acting smart now, we can eliminate some of the greatest cyber threats facing our businesses today.”

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Key Cybersecurity Trends for 2025. My Predictions

Jane Frankland

JANUARY 12, 2025

These groups are also shifting toward more human-centric exploits , like social engineering and insider assistance. Insider threats are particularly insidious, as attackers increasingly rely on employeesmalicious or unwittingas entry points. These frameworks aim to enhance digital trust while promoting technological innovation.

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LW ROUNDTABLE: Wrist slap or cultural shift? SEC fines cyber firms for disclosure violations

Spotlight Podcast: CSO Chris Walcutt on Managing 3rd Party OT Risk

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Security Roundup April 2025

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Make them pay: Hackers devise new tactics to ensure ransomware payment

Survey: Alarming Number of IT Professionals Told to Conceal Breaches

Massive threat campaign strikes open-source repos, Sonatype spots new CursedGrabber malware

Cybersecurity Snapshot: CISA Calls for Stamping Out Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities, as Europol Tells Banks To Prep For Quantum Threat

15 Top Cybersecurity Certifications for 2022

Battling Burnout: A Growing Concern for CISOs and Security Professionals

Cybersecurity Snapshot: Tenable Report Warns About Toxic Cloud Exposures, as PwC Study Urges C-Suite Collaboration for Stronger Cyber Resilience

Cyber Security Awareness and Risk Management

Cybersecurity Snapshot: CISA Warns of Global Spear-Phishing Threat, While OWASP Releases AI Security Resources

LW ROUNDTABLE: Cybersecurity takeaways of 2023 — and what’s ahead in 2024 ( part 2)

Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Security Experts Reflect on Safety

Key Cybersecurity Trends for 2025. My Predictions

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