Embed Security into Your Modernized Applications

Embed Security into Your Modernized Applications

By Gadi Naor, CTO and Co-Founder of Alcide Companies may be feeling pressure to modernize their legacy, monolithic applications for many reasons: some may wish to operate on a larger scale or to increase innovation velocity by enabling teams to work in parallel. Some companies will build new applications from the ground up, and others will take an incremental approach to modernization by breaking up their monolithic applications and creating modernized blocks one piece at…

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Chinese Government Will Begin to Stockpile Zero-Days in September

Chinese Government Will Begin to Stockpile Zero-Days in September

By Randy Reiter CEO of Don’t Be Breached July 2021 has Been A Busy Month in Cyber Security The Associated Press published on Tuesday, July 13, 2021 that on September 1, 2021 a new law in China requires all Chinese citizens finding a Zero-Day Vulnerability to provide within 48 hours the details to the Chinese government. A Chinese citizen must NOT give or sell the information to third parties outside of China (apart from the…

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Schools, colleges brace for cyberattacks as students return

Schools, colleges brace for cyberattacks as students return

Hackers are ready to pounce on schools and universities as they attempt to restart classes 18 months into the coronavirus pandemic while already dealing with controversial subjects such as mask mandates and hybrid learning. Both K-12 schools and colleges have been increasingly subjected to ransomware attacks, class interruptions on virtual learning platforms, phishing emails and identity theft, further disrupting an already challenging learning environment. “Last year was quite rough,” Doug Levin, the national director of…

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Four Ways Smart Cities Can Stay Safe in An Interconnected World

Four Ways Smart Cities Can Stay Safe in An Interconnected World

Mitigating the risks of cyber threats through cyber intelligence and frontier technologies By Ritesh Kumar, Chairman & CEO, CYFIRMA Smart cities bring about an abundance of benefits for a nation – a more liveable space for citizens, a thriving business environment, and greater economic growth. It is therefore no surprise that world leaders and nations are focused on developing critical infrastructure and rolling out technologies to build up their own smart cities. However, with the…

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Defending Against Increasing DDOS Attacks in The Light Of COVID-19 And 5G

Defending Against Increasing DDOS Attacks in The Light Of COVID-19 And 5G

By Amr Alashaal, Regional Vice President – Middle East at A10 Networks Cybercriminals had a busy year in 2020, with rapidly increasing numbers of distributed denial of service (DDoS) weapons, widespread botnet activity, and some of the largest DDoS attacks ever recorded. As COVID-19 drove an urgent shift online for everything from education and healthcare, to consumer shopping, to office work, hackers had more targets available than ever—many of them under protected due to the…

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Evaluating Security Practices in Response to Colonial Pipeline And South Korean KAERI Attacks

Evaluating Security Practices in Response to Colonial Pipeline And South Korean KAERI Attacks

Zero Trust and Enforcing the Principle of Least Privilege Have Become Crucially Important. By Garret Grajek, CEO, YouAttest In recent news, we have seen several high-profile attacks on major institutions in the United States and abroad. In early May of this year, the Colonial Pipeline in the United States was attacked and late last month it was reported that a North Korean hacking group, Kimsuky, breached the network of the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute…

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T-Mobile’s data breach exposes the personal data of 40 million

T-Mobile’s data breach exposes the personal data of 40 million

T-Mobile, the popular US mobile phone service provider, recently confirmed a data breach affecting 7.8 million current customers and 40 million records from past or prospective customers. The stolen data included customer names, dates of birth, social security numbers, and driver’s license information. Fortunately, subscriber credit card information and other financial details were not affected in the breach.   Even though financial data was spared in the breach, the types of information stolen, along with the vast volume of affected subscribers mean that all T-Mobile subscribers should take immediate action to secure their…

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T-Mobile’s data breach exposes the personal data of 40 million

T-Mobile’s data breach exposes the personal data of 40 million

T-Mobile, the popular US mobile phone service provider, recently confirmed a data breach affecting 7.8 million current customers and 40 million records from past or prospective customers. The stolen data included customer names, dates of birth, social security numbers, and driver’s license information. Fortunately, subscriber credit card information and other financial details were not affected in the breach.   Even though financial data was spared in the breach, the types of information stolen, along with the vast volume of affected subscribers mean that all T-Mobile subscribers should take immediate action to secure their…

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NYC Teachers’ Social Security Numbers Exposed

NYC Teachers’ Social Security Numbers Exposed

High school students who raised the alarm after discovering a severe data breach involving teachers’ personal information say they were ignored for months.  In January, students at Brooklyn Technical High School reportedly stumbled across a Google Drive containing documents uploaded by staff and students at schools across New York City. Among the documents were college recommendation letters, classwork, and parent-teacher conference sign-up sheets. The students could access the files because of a quirk in the school’s education…

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Former New York Observer Editor Re-charged Over Cyber-stalking

Former New York Observer Editor Re-charged Over Cyber-stalking

A former editor of the New York Observer who was pardoned in January for alleged cyber-stalking has been re-charged for a similar, related offense.  New Jersey resident Kenneth Kurson, also known as Jayden Wagner and Eddie Train, was charged on October 23, 2020, with cyber-stalking three individuals and harassing two additional people. His alleged victims include his former wife, her friend, and a doctor employed by Mount Sinai Hospital.  Kurson’s alleged crimes dated back to November and…

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