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Don’t gamble with your identity verification practices

CIO

Earlier this year, I wrote about the importance of organizations reviewing their password management strategies. According to reports, MGM and Caesars were both customers of identity management company Okta. According to reports, the hacker groups identified as BlackCat/ALPHV and Scattered Spider are behind these attacks.

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CircleCI incident report for January 4, 2023 security incident

CircleCI

We encourage customers who have yet to take action to do so in order to prevent unauthorized access to third-party systems and stores. This report will cover: What happened? A note on employee responsibility vs. systems safeguards. All dates and times are reported in UTC, unless otherwise noted. Security best practices.

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How to manage cloud exploitation at the edge

CIO

Companies that have embraced the cloud need to understand the Shared Responsibility Model: a security and compliance framework that explains what shared infrastructure and systems the cloud provider is responsible for maintaining and how a customer is responsible for operating systems, data, and applications utilizing the cloud.

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Leaky Apps – How Banning Them Builds App Security

Ivanti

Insider threats The risk from insider threats is a major concern in app security, due to the difficulty of detecting malicious insiders who already have legitimate access to systems and data. A recent report found that 48% of cybersecurity professionals agree that insider attacks are tougher to detect and prevent than external attacks.

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Tenable OT Security: 2023 Year in Review

Tenable

In March 2023 , we announced new capabilities within Tenable OT Security, providing broader protection for critical infrastructure and industrial control systems, regardless of the size or configuration of the environment. Our OT capabilities were among the many Tenable product offerings highlighted in several analyst reports.

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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. Probably the worst IT airline disaster of 2023 came on the government side, however.

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FBI and CISA Release Cybersecurity Advisory on Royal Ransomware Group

Tenable

Toward the end of 2022, the Royal ransomware group surged to the top of the monthly charts to overtake LockBit in November 2022, likely due to a sharp rise in attacks against organizations ahead of the holidays. Royal uses Cobalt Strike and malware such as Ursnif/Gozi to exfiltrate data.

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