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News alert: SpyCloud accelerates supply chain risk analysis with new ‘IDLink’ correlation capability

The Last Watchdog

By illuminating connections, opening up new threads to investigate, and offering unlimited queries to SpyCloud’s enriched database of breached, phished, and malware-exfiltrated data, analysts can visualize threats and act decisively, enhancing organizational resilience against cybercrime and identity threats.”

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AI and the SEC Whistleblower Program

Schneier on Security

They can be filed on the basis of public data, as long as the whistleblower brings original analysis. Ransomware groups have used the threat of SEC whistleblower tips as a tactic to pressure the companies they’ve infiltrated into paying ransoms. Companies might dig up dirt on their competitors and submit tips to the SEC.

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GUEST ESSAY – Notable events in hacking history that helped transform cybersecurity assessment

The Last Watchdog

Phishing scams, malware, ransomware and data breaches are just some of the examples of cyberthreats that can devastate business operations and the protection of consumer information. military officials hired data analysts to crack the Japanese secret code known as JN-25. After the devastating blow of Pearl Harbor, U.S.

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Applying Heuristics in Cybersecurity

Approachable Cyber Threats

Consider the following: “I hear about ransomware all the time. That means every risk in my assessment about ransomware should have the highest probability of occurring in my risk assessment report.” Data analysts aren’t immune to the ill effects of the recognition heuristic either.

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DCAP Systems: Protecting Your Data with Advanced Technology

SecureWorld News

Huge arrays of unstructured data utilized and modified by many users as well as the ever-growing complexity of attacks, lead to the fact that the usual means of protecting the perimeter of a corporate network no longer meet current information security requirements.

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Indicators of compromise (IOCs): how we collect and use them

SecureList

This is the most precious source of intelligence as it provides unique and reliable data from trusted systems and technologies. Kaspersky’s private Threat Intelligence Portal (TIP), which is available to customers as a service, offers limited access to such in-house technical data.