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Why endpoint security will be a renewed priority for businesses of all sizes in 2023

CIO

They achieve this via several means, but one of the most common is via phishing, which typically involves convincing someone to download a piece of malware from a legitimate-looking email that will then gather login data and other sensitive info that can give the criminals access to much more within the organisation.

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Radar Trends to Watch: June 2023

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

AI LMSYS ORG (Large Model Systems Organization), a research cooperative between Berkeley, UCSD, and CMU, has released ELO ratings of large language models, based on a competitive analysis. Data OpenSafely is an open source platform that allows researchers to access electronic health records securely and transparently.

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Busting 5 Common Myths About Vulnerability Assessment

Tenable

Recent research has borne out that the odds of a small or medium-sized business (SMB) undergoing a cyberattack or data breach are more than 50-50: About 66% of SMBs experienced at least one cyberattack in 2019. Say a malware strain entered an industrial control system (ICS) while it wasn't connected to the company's overall network.

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Cyber Hygiene Essentials: What You Need to Know

Tenable

The term "vulnerability" isn't synonymous with "malware" or "virus”: It simply means any weakness within your network that can be exploited. Vulnerabilities can be errors in application coding, unpatched flaws in the operating systems of hosts on the network, devices on the network with insufficient security measures or other complications.

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Radar trends to watch: December 2021

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

An AI system to give ethical advice gives unethical advice. What’s concerning isn’t the bad advice so much as the naiveté of the research project. Mitre has released a list of important hardware vulnerabilities. Most discussions of security focus on software. However, software is only part of the problem.

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Three Reasons Endpoint Security Can’t Stop With Just Patching

Ivanti

AI generated polymorphic exploits can bypass leading security tools Recently, AI-generated polymorphic malware has been developed to bypass EDR and antivirus, leaving security teams with blind spots into threats and vulnerabilities. The asset data should feed into an enterprise endpoint patch management system.

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Microsoft’s July 2023 Patch Tuesday Addresses 130 CVEs (CVE-2023-36884)

Tenable

According to researchers at Microsoft, exploitation of CVE-2023-36884 has been attributed to a threat actor known as Storm-0978, also known as DEV-0978 and RomCom, a reference to the backdoor used by the group as part of its attacks. Successful exploitation would allow an attacker to obtain administrative privileges on the target system.

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