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"Augusta University's Security Operations Center Introduces SIEGE CyberOps to Provide Cybersecurity Services Throughout Georgia"The Security Operations Center (SOC) at Augusta University (AU) opened in October 2020, in the midst of COVID-19 challenges and increased cyber threats. With the help of a student workforce, the Cyber Defense Department has been working to keep AU and AU…
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"Insurance Giant Lloyd's of London Investigating Cybersecurity Incident"Insurance giant Lloyd's of London is currently investigating a cybersecurity incident that has forced it to disconnect some systems. The company noted that it had detected unusual activity and decided to "reset" its network and systems as a…
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"Milestones Achieved on the Path to Useful Quantum Technologies"What Albert Einstein called "spooky action at a distance" involves tiny particles that are interconnected despite being thousands of kilometers apart at times. Something that is inexplicable by classical physics laws is a fundamental part of quantum…
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"Landmark US-UK Data Access Agreement Begins"A first-of-its-kind agreement between the US and UK governments came into force this week, promising to streamline digital investigations for British law enforcers. The Data Access Agreement technically allows each country’s investigators to…
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"Uber's Former Security Chief Convicted of 2016 Data Breach Cover-Up"Uber's former chief security officer was recently convicted of federal charges for illegally covering up the theft of Uber drivers' and customers' personal information in 2016. Joe Sullivan, previously also a cybercrime prosecutor for the US…
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"How AI-Driven Cyber Insurance Can Help Measure the Financial Risk of Cyber Crime"If a company fails to protect its critical data assets from ransomware attacks, the damage can cost millions of dollars to repair. According to IBM, the average global total cost of a data breach is $4.35 million. However, an increasing number of…
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"Feds Set Roadmap for SLTTs in Ransomware Fight"Federal officials are urging state and local government, as well as education leaders, to focus on some of the federal government's top existing resources in the fight against ransomware attacks. They are encouraged not to give in to the demands for…
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"Average Company With Data in The Cloud Faces $28 Million in Data Breach Risk"According to researchers at Varonis, hard-to-control collaboration, complex SaaS permissions, and risky misconfigurations, such as admin accounts without multi-factor authentication (MFA), have left a dangerous amount of cloud data exposed to insider…
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"Study Shows 91% Of Organizations Fear Ransomware Attacks"Financially motivated cyberattacks are the most concerning to IT professionals, with recent statistics indicating that nine out of ten organizations fear financially motivated attacks such as ransomware. SonicWall research, conducted in conjunction with…
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"RDP Attacks Decline 89% in Eight Months"Security researchers at ESET have found that detections of RDP password-guessing attacks declined from 123 billion in the first four months of the year to 13 billion in the period May-August. The researchers stated that there was an 89% decline in…
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"Microsoft Updates Guidance for 'ProxyNotShell' Bugs After Researchers Get Around Mitigations"Microsoft has updated its guidance for two zero-day vulnerabilities recently discovered in Exchange Server software. According to several security researchers who investigated the bugs known as "ProxyNotShell," the original guidance provided for the bugs…
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"Family Medical Informs 234K Patients of Possible Data Compromise"After a network data security incident on July 26, Family Medical Center (FMC) Services notified 233,948 patients that their data was potentially compromised. FMC is a network of 75 primary care clinics in the Texas cities of Amarillo and Canyon. When…