Network Security

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Issued by: Help Net Security

While more businesses are investing in security measures like multifactor authentication (MFA), employees still have poor password habits that weaken companies’ overall security posture, according to LastPass. Given that stolen and reused credentials are linked to 80 percent of hacking-related breaches, businesses must take more action to improve password and access security to make a…

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Issued by: Symantec Blog

Cybersecurity is everyone’s responsibility. In a world where the cyberthreat landscape continues growing rapidly in size and sophistication, that’s the key message driving the focus of 2019’s National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM) this October. Held every October, NCSAM is a collaborative effort between government and the private sector to promote cybersecurity awareness and the need…

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Issued by: Help Net Security

Organizational silos create unnecessary security risk for global businesses. The lack of security involvement in DevOps projects was reportedly creating cyber risk for 72% of IT leaders, according to Trend Micro. In an effort to better understand the DevOps culture, Trend Micro commissioned Vanson Bourne to poll 1,310 IT decision makers in SMB and enterprise…

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Issued by: Help Net Security

Organized crime has grown more complex since the turn of the century—coinciding with the rise of the digital world, cybercriminals have leveraged the proliferation of technology to broaden their reach with a more sophisticated network-structured model, effectively globalizing their operations in cyberspace and ultimately allowing cybercriminals to devastate companies and consumers alike. The faster you…

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Issued by: Security Week

The request was made in a letter signed by US Attorney General William Barr, British home secretary Priti Patel and Australian minister for home affairs Peter Dutton. “We are writing to request that Facebook does not proceed with its plan to implement end-to-end encryption across its messaging services… without including a means for lawful access…

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Issued by: Trend Micro Blog

In Identity Theft the Target is You!

The hard truth is that identity data is the new gold—and criminal panhandlers are mining it for sale and distribution on the Dark Web. Indeed, the internet provides ways for big data breaches to result in disastrous leaks of huge databases of personal information, resulting in detailed profiles of individuals—based on their internet behaviors, including…

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Issued by: Help Net Security

Companies vastly overestimating their GDPR readiness, only 28% achieving compliance

Over a year on from the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Capgemini Research Institute has found that companies vastly overestimated their readiness for the new regulation with just 28% having successfully achieved compliance. This is compared to a GDPR readiness survey last year which found that 78% expected to be prepared…

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Issued by: Help Net Security

The verdict is in: quantum computing poses an existential threat to asymmetric cryptography algorithms like RSA and ECC that underpin practically all current Internet security. This comes straight from the National Academy of Science’s Committee on Technical Assessment of the Feasibility and Implications of Quantum Computing. The inevitable follow-up: OK, so how much time do…