eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The conference’s focus on cyber resilience doesn’t mean that organizations should abandon core security defenses like EDR , access control and firewalls , but they should be prepared for the advanced threats that will, at some point, get past them. “ Immutable backups ” are often touted as the answer here.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Consumers’ payment data is a compelling target for criminals who continue to circumvent IT security defenses. Virtually every major financial institution, retailer, and scores of payment processors have been the victims of data breaches, incurring both financial and reputational damage. million, second only to healthcare.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The gang has scored a series of resonant attacks on oil companies, financial services , government agencies and healthcare providers. As with most cyberextortionists lately, the Cuba gang encrypts victims’ files and demands a ransom in exchange for a decryption key. It looks for data both locally and inside network shares.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

HIPAA mandates that healthcare providers, insurers, and business associates implement robust security measures to safeguard patient data. This includes administrative, physical, and technical safeguards like encryption and access controls. HIPAA also requires organizations to conduct regular risk assessments and report data breaches.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 24, 2024

For teams in industries like financial services, healthcare, and government, the more specific the access rule, the better. Create Rules with Appropriate Levels of Protection Tailor your firewall rules to the security needs of your organization. Access rules help block known malicious traffic sources.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 22, 2024

Widely-used PuTTY Utility Allows Recovery of Encryption Secret Keys Type of vulnerability: Deterministic cryptographic number generation. that didn’t generate sufficiently random numbers for encryption keys, which could allow an attacker to fully recover keys and impersonate users after obtaining roughly 60 signatures.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 18, 2024

Organizations first looked to augment their existing web application security tools and processes to “address” API security. Unfortunately, the security challenges associated with APIs can't be solved by simply updating existing testing tools and edge security defenses to check-the-box technologies that claim to provide "API security."

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