cyber threats

Increasing Awareness of DNS Hijacking: A Growing Cyber Threat

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Increasing Awareness of DNS Hijacking: A Growing Cyber Threat

A recent report from Palo Alto Networks’s Unit 42 exposes the persistent and evolving threat of DNS hijacking, a stealthy tactic cybercriminals use to reroute internet traffic. By leveraging passive DNS analysis, the cybersecurity company also provided real-world examples of recent DNS hijacking attacks — highlighting the urgency of countering this hidden danger. What is DNS hijacking? DNS hijacking involves modifying the responses from targeted DNS servers, redirecting users to attacker-controlled servers instead of the…

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Multi-Site Mastery: Strategies for Effective Risk Assessments

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Multi-Site Mastery: Strategies for Effective Risk Assessments

In this episode of The Security Podcasts we sit down with Mark Landry, National Accounts Director at AMAROK, to discuss navigating multi-site risk assessment effectively. “In order to approach your risk assessment, especially when you’ve got vast or disparate geographies – meaning you’ve got a location in Portland, Maine and location in Portland, Oregon – you have to be able to accurately convey the risk across both of those locations that have very different risk…

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Proving physical security value across an organization

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Proving physical security value across an organization

In this episode of The Security Podcasts we sit down with Thomasina Martin, a Key Account Manager specializing in Energy and Utilities at Genetec, Inc., to talk about proving the value of physical security across an organization. “One of the primary challenges I think a lot of us see, I think it’s universal in the security industry when trying to secure a budget, is that physical security often competes with other critical business units or…

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The Countdown Has Begun: Getting Started on Your Post-Quantum Journey

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The Countdown Has Begun: Getting Started on Your Post-Quantum Journey

If you’re involved in network security, you’ve likely heard about the threat of quantum computers and the need for post-quantum cryptography (PQC). What you may not be so familiar with is the immediacy of the risk. “Q-Day” is coming — a moment when cryptanalytically relevant quantum computing (CRQC) will be able to break all public-key cryptography systems in operation today. Malicious actors are harvesting encrypted data that they anticipate decrypting once Q-Day arrives. Known as…

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Balancing Risk and Innovation – A CISO Perspective

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Balancing Risk and Innovation – A CISO Perspective

In this episode of The Security Podcasts featuring Jill Knesek, CISO of Blackline, and former FBI Special Agent in the Cyber Crime Squad, we talk about balancing risk & innovation from a CISO’s perspective. “The message I like to give is we can be both innovative and secure.,” Knesek says. “They’re not mutually exclusive, and they shouldn’t be. By shifting left and embedding strong security practices and controls earlier into our development lifecycle, we can…

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Protect Against Adversary-in-the-Middle with Cisco’s User Protection Suite

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Protect Against Adversary-in-the-Middle with Cisco’s User Protection Suite

In the blog, Understanding & Defending Against Adversary-in-the-Middle (AiTM) Attacks, we reviewed the basics of an AiTM attack and how Duo can protect against it. To recap, in an AiTM attack, the attacker sits in between the user and the real web page and steals a user’s valid session cookies. This means that they can bypass traditional authentication controls. Talos, Cisco’s Threat Intelligence Group, reported on AiTM attacks back in 2019 as a method to…

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User Protection Suite Secures Against Talos Top Ransomware Attack Trends

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User Protection Suite Secures Against Talos Top Ransomware Attack Trends

In Cisco Talos’ first episode of Talos Threat Perspective (TTP) episode, two Talos Threat Intelligence experts, Nick Biasini and James Nutland, discuss new research on the most prominent ransomware groups. They also pick three key topics and trends to focus on: initial access, differences among the groups, and the vulnerabilities they most heavily target. In their research, Talos evaluated the top 14 ransomware groups and reviewed their tactics and techniques. And what they found is…

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A CISO's perspective on the modern cybersecurity landscape

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A CISO's perspective on the modern cybersecurity landscape

Many businesses still believe there is such a thing as 100% security, despite every cybersecurity expert affirming the opposite. Because companies push for and demand 100% security, the organization ultimately settles for a false sense of it so their people can function. Such a mindset is not only wrong but incredibly dangerous. Business leaders must recognize that breaches are imminent, and a robust approach to cybersecurity involves detecting and responding quickly and effectively to incidents….

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Navigating political polarization in the workplace

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Navigating political polarization in the workplace

In this episode of The Security Podcasts featuring Scott McHugh, retired CSO at LyondellBasell Chemical Company and Faculty at Rice University, we discuss the challenges security leaders face when navigating political polarization in the workplace. “This is actually not a new phenomenon,” Scott McHugh says. “It really started in the late ’90s, in the Clinton administration, and it’s just been manifesting itself through the years ever since then. And it’s become much more of a…

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Protect Your Business With This Seamless Firewall for $50

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Protect Your Business With This Seamless Firewall for

TL;DR: There’s no shortage of threats to business out there these days, but DNS FireWall can help protect you from cyberthreats. Grab it for $49.97 this week only at TechRepublic Academy. There are myriad digital threats to businesses today, and it’s crucial that decision-makers prioritize cybersecurity. You don’t need a dedicated IT team to protect proprietary information. You can get a great security foundation with DNS FireWall, a security app developed to protect an unlimited…

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