Cybersecurity professionals are already losing sleep over data breaches and how to best protect their employers from attacks. Now they have another nightmare to stress over — how to spot…
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How Estonia Created Trust in Its Digital-Forward Government
Cities are becoming smarter every day, and many state and local governments are pushing towards the digitalization of public services. Some North American cities are working hard to integrate online…
10 Open-Source Intelligence Tools (That Actually Work With Your Existing Security Software)
Finding the Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) that affects your business or agency can help reduce your attack surface. You just have to find it first. Take a look at how…
A Journey in Organizational Cyber Resilience Part 1: The Human Factor
Organizational resilience is key to good business. Sometimes confused with enterprise resilience, we use the former term instead because it applies to a business or agency of any size. Let’s…
What’s Behind the Leaks of Customer Data From Retailer Databases?
Retail data breaches involving customer data happen often today. However, they tend to be smaller insize than health care, finance or government breaches. So, the general public notices them less.…
Private 5G Security: Consider Security Risks Before Investing
So, 5G is one of those once-in-a-generation types of leaps that will alter how we operate. However, 5G security comes with a lot of challenges. Private 5G networks require us…
How Companies Can Prepare for Botnet Attacks on APIs
Organizations aren’t slowing down in their use of application programming interfaces (APIs). According to a survey covered by DEVOPSdigest, 61.3% of organizations used more APIs in 2020 than they did…
LockBit 2.0: Ransomware Attacks Surge After Successful Affiliate Recruitment
After a brief slowdown in activity from the LockBit ransomware gang following increased attention from law enforcement, LockBit is back with a new affiliate program, improved payloads and a change…
Fighting Cyber Threats With Open-Source Tools and Open Standards
Detecting cyber threats is usually the first critical step in the mitigation of cyber attacks. Common means to achieve this goal are rules or analytics that track network and system…
Critical Infrastructure Attack Trends: What Business Leaders Should Know
Amateur threat actors have been able to compromise critical infrastructure like industrial control systems (ICS) and other operational technology (OT) assets more often lately. Compromises of exposed OT assets rose…