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Cyber Security
Cyber criminals, state-sponsored hackers and even the occasional disgruntled employee are constantly looking to gain unauthorized access for a variety of purposes: theft of money, cyber espionage, personal information for sale or for use in scams, and damage to critical infrastructure for just a few of the most common.
So how does an organization mitigate an entire world full of continual cyber attacks? Just as buildings have a number of necessary elements of physical security: access control, cameras, alarms and so on; there are similar key elements of cyber security that are absolutely vital for just about any modern business.
It starts with identifying and closing the most common doors that attackers use. For example, phishing attacks on employees are far and away the most common initial point of entry. The breach of even a low-level employee account can quickly turn into an escalation in access privileges and the ability to reach sensitive information. This is also true of smart devices, which are generally more poorly secured than computers and phones.
Microsoft Azure cloud container vulnerability allows an attacker to escape their container and compromise other user's containers on the same cloud services by executing malicious code.
A third-party platform that has the ability to pull fitness tracking data from nearly all of the major wearable device providers has been breached, leaving about 61 million records exposed.
The fact that phishing attacks have been on the rise is no secret. One of the most interesting developments is that malicious emails are now being timed to coincide with the "mid-afternoon slump" common to office workers.
Countries are looking at vaccine passports as the ‘door opener’ for a return to normalcy. At the same time, threat actors know too well that taking advantage of the current pandemic has been a very lucrative over the last 18 months.
Realizing the growing danger that insider attacks pose to businesses and national security, National Insider Threat Awareness Month has become an annual call for organizations to take preventative actions in an effort to minimize their risk of attacks.
It's now possible for artificial intelligence (AI) programming systems to create false information and present it as fact – and even trick cybersecurity experts into thinking the information is true.
Japanese tech giant Olympus suffered a suspected BlackMatter ransomware attack in early August that disrupted operations in its European, Middle East, and African operations.
Mirai Botnet Trojans Actively Exploiting Microsoft Azure Vulnerability and Locking Other Hackers Out
Security researchers discovered that Mirai Botnet trojans actively exploited the OMIGOD Azure vulnerability and then closed the OMI SSL port 5896 to prevent others from doing the same.
A hybrid-remote working model has created a wider attack surface. Many organizations still tend to make critical mistakes with regards to data security that, if left unaddressed, can lead to drastic consequences for the entire business.









