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Website spoofing: risks, threats, and mitigation strategies for CIOs

CIO

Malware distribution The opportunistic nature of website spoofing allows attackers to distribute malware to users’ devices. The distribution of malware serves various purposes, from causing general system distribution to potentially being employed as a tool for more sophisticated cyberattacks.

Strategy 244
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Protecting Client Data with AWS: Ensuring Trust in the Digital Age

Mentormate

Enter Amazon Web Services (AWS), a powerhouse in the cloud service sector renowned for its comprehensive and robust security features. AWS isn’t just the largest public cloud provider — it’s a global leader offering an unparalleled suite of security services and features that safeguard data across all continents.

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Defending against ransomware is all about the basics

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

An attacker plants malware on your system that encrypts all the files, making your system useless, then offers to sell you the key you need to decrypt the files. Strong passwords, two-factor authentication, defense in depth, staying on top of software updates, good backups, and the ability to restore from backups go a long way.

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Ransomware hits the cloud

Lacework

In the last two years, we’ve seen a 600% increase in attacks which is not terribly surprising given ransomware, a form of malware that seeks to encrypt or withhold data unless a ransom is paid, is profitable for attackers. Ransomware climbs to the cloud. During this time, an attacker makes noise within the cloud environment.

Cloud 52
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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Tips for cloud configs, MSP vetting, CISO board presentations

Tenable

1 - CISA issues config baselines for Microsoft cloud apps. Properly configuring cloud services is critical for reducing cyber risk, so guidance in this area is always welcome. Here’s a small sample of the recommendations, which are part of CISA’s Secure Cloud Business Applications (SCuBA) project: Microsoft Teams. Kinda, sorta.

Cloud 52
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Fighting Ransomware: Using Ivanti’s Platform to Build a Resilient Zero Trust Security Defense

Ivanti

Ransomware is a strain of malware that blocks users (or a company) from accessing their personal data or apps on infected iOS, iPadOS, and Android mobile devices, macOS laptops, Windows personal computers and servers, and Linux servers. Communications : The malware scans the contents of the SD card. Devices running versions from 2.2

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Fighting Ransomware: Using Ivanti’s Platform to Build a Resilient Zero Trust Security Defense – Part 2

Ivanti

The quickest method to check for the presence of malware on your iPhone, iPad or macOS devices is to look for the presence of an unknown configuration profile within the Settings > General > VPN & Device Management settings. Victims would then be coerced to pay money to remove the malware from their devices or laptops.

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