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Radar trends to watch: August 2021

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Good practices for authentication, backups, and software updates are the best defense against ransomware and many other attacks. Facebook has said that it is now focusing on building the virtual reality Metaverse, which will be the successor to the web. Virtual Reality. If you aren’t driving, you’ll be in an app.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Tips for cloud configs, MSP vetting, CISO board presentations

Tenable

Block legacy authentication protocols. Privilege account management, including role-based access and authentication management. The group’s modus operandi is to first gain initial access via virtual private network (VPN) servers. Keep data backups offline. Disable automatic forwarding of emails to external domains.

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Zero-Day: Vulnerabilities, Exploits, Attacks and How to Manage Them

Kaseya

Those tools also take an inventory of all IT assets, such as servers, desktops, virtual machines, operating systems, applications and active ports, on each machine to scan them for security flaws. The infection can take the form of a virus, Trojan horse, worm, spyware, adware, rootkit or other malware like ransomware.