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Story of the Year: global IT outages and supply chain attacks

SecureList

Cisco Duo supply chain data breach What happened? User data was stolen from Cisco Duo, a service that provides organizations with multi-factor authentication (MFA) and single sign-on (SSO) network access, as a consequence of a phishing attack targeting an employee of a third-party telephony provider.

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Top 9 Trends In Cybersecurity Careers for 2025

eSecurity Planet

In-Demand Cybersecurity Skills While emerging technologies place new knowledge demands on cybersecurity professionals, there are evergreen skills that are in demand among data security experts. Networking and system administration: Security professionals must instinctively understand network and system concepts.

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MY TAKE: Memory hacking arises as a go-to tactic to carry out deep, persistent incursions

The Last Watchdog

It was designed to make it convenient for system administrators to automate tasks and manage configurations across all Windows endpoints and servers in a company network. Today, if you examine any high-profile data breach, you’re likely to find memory-hacking techniques utilized at multiple key stages of the attack.

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Top IT Areas You Need to Check to Strengthen Your Cybersecurity

CyberSecurity Insiders

That is why most companies hire professional information security services to mitigate the risks arising from data breaches. This article discusses top areas in IT where you need to strengthen cybersecurity measures to avoid data breaches and information loss: Networks. Data Security. Security Systems.

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NEW TECH: LogicHub introduces ‘virtualized’ security analysts to help elevate SOAR

The Last Watchdog

Here are my takeaways: Skills deficit Over the past 20 years, enterprises have shelled out small fortunes in order to stock their SOCs with the best firewalls, anti-malware suites, intrusion detection, data loss prevention and sandbox detonators money can buy. Take PowerShell-enabled breaches, for instance.

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Vulnerability Recap 7/15/24 – Industry Patches vs Flaw Exploits

eSecurity Planet

CVE-2024-5910 risks admin account takeover due to authentication flaws that compromise critical data. CVE-2024-3596 allows an adversary-in-the-middle attack between PAN-OS firewalls and RADIUS servers, potentially escalating privileges to ‘superuser’ via insecure CHAP or PAP settings.

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What Are the Best Cybersecurity Certifications in 2023?

SecureWorld News

Learners will develop the knowledge needed to protect organizations and data from cyberattacks while learning the basic techniques required to conduct security analysis at a business level. With this knowledge, learners will then exploit a live system to identify the risks of web applications that lack the necessary security.