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Why you must extend Zero Trust to public cloud workloads

CIO

7 With the vast majority (estimated around 85%) of Internet traffic encrypted, there is exponential growth in security risks posed by encrypted channels that can hide harmful content such as viruses, spyware, and other malware challenging security teams to secure an increasingly distributed enterprise and avoid costly repercussions.

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Daily Crunch: After filing for bankruptcy, crypto lender Voyager Digital says it will ‘maintain operations’

TechCrunch

It seems that Bolt and Authentic Brands Group, Forever 21’s parent company, have kissed and made up. Authentic was initially suing Bolt with claims that Bolt had not delivered the one-click checkout technology that was promised, which resulted in the company missing out on some $150 million in sales. for 1 year, Ingrid writes.

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What is Tailgating in Cyber Security

The Crazy Programmer

The main goal of tailgating is to enter the local place with no proper authentication. They may even install spyware in the computer devices of the organizations. Want to know what tailgating is in cyber security? Tailgating or piggybacking is one of the hacking techniques hackers use.

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9 Types of Phishing and Ransomware Attacks—And How to Identify Them

Ivanti

End users are easily coaxed into divulging their precious personal information because of attention-grabbing headlines and authentic-looking, obfuscated or shortened hyperlinks. Pharming employs authentic-looking hyperlinks in phishing emails that redirect end users from a specific, legitimate site to a malicious one?by

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: NIST’s Cybersecurity Framework Gets Major Update, as Advisories on APT29 and ALPHV Blackcat Get Rolled Out

Tenable

These are some of the TTPs used by APT29: Using brute forcing and password spraying to access service accounts, which are used to run and manage applications and services Compromising dormant accounts that haven’t been deactivated although they belong to users who no longer work at the targeted organization Using valid, unexpired tokens to access accounts (..)

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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. Security continues to be in the news: most notably the Kaseya ransomware attack, which was the first case of a supply chain ransomware attack that we’re aware of. That’s new and very dangerous territory.

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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. In another, it used credentials stolen via phishing to log into a VPN server that wasn’t protected with multifactor authentication (MFA.). Disable automatic forwarding of emails to external domains.

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