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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. Through browsers, plugins, or extensions, users are prompted to download seemingly legitimate files or applications, unwittingly inviting chaos into their systems.

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8 big IT failures of 2023

CIO

And because the incumbent companies have been around for so long, many are running IT systems with some elements that are years or decades old. Honestly, it’s a wonder the system works at all. And arise it did on January 24, when a Chicago employee failed to turn the backup server off at the appropriate time.

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

CIO

Uncovering the domestic and foreign threats to critical infrastructure Critical infrastructure refers to the physical and virtual systems and assets so vital to our society that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on security, national economic stability, public health, or safety.

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Top 5 Security Trends for CIOs

CIO

With every such change comes opportunity–for bad actors looking to game the system. A second, more pernicious risk is the fact that ChatGPT can write malware. Sometimes the malware has errors, but with simple repetition the hacker can generate multiple working versions of the code. Adversaries continue to innovate.

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

Mentormate

Data breaches, malware, ransomware, data loss, and misconfigurations are just a few dangers lurking in the cloud. Unauthorized access and insider threats pose significant risks, as do malware infections and ransomware attacks. Manage secrets with AWS Secrets Manager or AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store.

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

Infinidat

IT teams often don’t really understand how hard it is to detect ransomware and malware, as if a highly sophisticated, deep cover “spy” is present, either planting the seeds to inflict damage or stealing your organization blind. . attack the backup and the storage that houses the backup solutions, too. Cyber terrorists.

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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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