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Digital Marriage—Making Sure Your Online Wedding is Safe and Secure Love finds a way. Even in a pandemic.  Across this year and last, a growing number of couples are sticking to their wedding dates as planned, yet with a twist—they’re holding them online. Whether to comply with local guidance, accommodate friends and family who cannot travel, or some mix of both, online weddings are indeed happening. They take many forms—from streaming a small ceremony at…

The highly sophisticated SolarWinds attack was designed to circumvent threat detection—and it did, for much too long. Two cybersecurity experts share some valuable lessons learned from the attack. Image: iStock/BalkansCat The recent SolarWinds supply-chain attack went undetected for months. The earliest suspicious activity was detected in September 2019; by Dec. 12, stakeholders were notified, and a formal investigation by law enforcement, intelligence teams, and branches of the US government was launched.  Following the attack, announcement,…

CISA warns of attacks on cloud-based services Length: 10:45 | Jan 29, 2021 Companies are most vulnerable when employees work from home or use a combination of company and personal devices. Source link

Is your boss spying on you? It’s possible, and privacy laws aren’t there yet Length: 4:24 | Jan 29, 2021 Some companies are using monitoring software to keep tabs on employees working from home. Some organizations are crying foul. Source link

Vishing: FBI says beware of voice phishing at large organizations Length: 6:45 | Jan 29, 2021 Attackers are tricking employees into logging into phishing sites. Source link

  After seeing the 1983 film WarGames as a child, Sheryl Benedict became fascinated by computer technology. In this edition of our blog, Sheryl explains how the thought of protecting organizations from the bad guys inspired her to achieve great things in cybersecurity.

Nearly a fifth of organizations hit by the Sunburst backdoor emanating from the SolarWinds supply chain attack are from the manufacturing sector, a new analysis from Kaspersky has revealed. While researchers have already uncovered technical details of the Sunburst backdoor that was embedded in the SolarWinds incident late last year, information of the full impact of the attack is still being investigated. It has been officially confirmed that around 18,000 users may have installed backdoor…

The term “data” is vague. Knowing the types of data helps companies protect themselves and better recover from a cyberattack. Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto You may know where your data is, but do you also know what the data consists of? “Imagine you’re at a party. You ask someone you’ve just met what they do for a living, and they answer: ‘I work in data,’” said Sky Cassidy, CEO of MountainTop Data, in an email interview….

Organizations must be far more focused on data privacy issues this year, according to a panel of experts speaking during the Spirion webinar Customer Data Privacy 2021: It’s No Longer Just Business, It’s Personal. The panel began by setting out the trends that have pushed data privacy issues to the fore over recent years. These include the growth and fragmentation of data privacy legislation, both in the US and across the world, which has expanded…