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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.

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Top 5 Security Trends for CIOs

CIO

All these forces and more drive rapid, often confusing change in organizations large and small. In reality, generative AI presents a number of new and transformed risks to the organization. A second, more pernicious risk is the fact that ChatGPT can write malware. The malware itself is easy to buy on the Dark Web.

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Guarding the gates: a look at critical infrastructure security in 2023

CIO

By leveraging these tools, organizations can utilize multiple technologies like Active Directory alongside Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions to build layered corporate defense and more accurately detect threats and respond quickly which leads to improved security performance.

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8 big IT failures of 2023

CIO

We’ve gathered eight instances of big tech failures that struck companies and other organizations in 2023. The outage was traced to a damaged database file; a contractor was working to correct a problem with the synchronization between live and backup databases and ended up corrupting both.

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Is a Deep Cover “Cyber Spy” Lurking in Your Data Infrastructure?

Infinidat

The answer is none, but most of the time enterprise organizations don’t even know that a cybercriminal has infiltrated their data center, network, storage, and servers, compromising their data infrastructure. attack the backup and the storage that houses the backup solutions, too. Evan Doherty. Thu, 02/24/2022 - 11:57.

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Fixed wireless access (FWA) is a secure networking option

CIO

Modern security challenges Data from the Verizon 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) shows the three primary ways in which attackers access an organization are stolen credentials, phishing and exploitation of vulnerabilities.

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Google: Monitor These Emerging Cloud Security Challenges in 2023

Tenable

In its latest “Threat Horizons” report, Google’s Cybersecurity Action Team details cloud security trends that it expects will have an impact in 2023 in areas including identity and access management (IAM), data backups and operational technology (OT.). Cloud providers’ IP addresses and open ports targeted with malware.

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