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"Average Cost of a Data Breach Reaches $4.45 Million in 2023"IBM published its annual Cost of a Data Breach Report, revealing that the global average data breach cost reached $4.45 million in 2023, a 15 percent increase over the previous three years. Detection and escalation costs increased by 42 percent during…
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"BGP Software Vulnerabilities Under the Microscope in Black Hat Session"In a presentation at Black Hat USA, Forescout researchers will bring attention to Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) implementation flaws. Few technologies are more fundamental to the Internet than BGP, which manages the transmission of data packets between…
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"Purdue Part of a National Research Center Aimed At Hardening Transportation Systems Against Cyberattacks"Purdue University has been selected as a partner in a new University Transportation Center (UTC) focused on cybersecurity and funded by the US Department of Transportation (DOT). The Transportation Cybersecurity and Resilience (TraCR) center, led by…
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"Privacy and Security Crucial for Healthcare Robot Adoption – According to New Report"According to a recently published white paper by Sheffield Hallam University, healthcare robotic systems must prioritize security and privacy protections. The paper calls for "secure by design" and "privacy by design" principles to increase user trust in…
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"Game Theory Comes to the Defense of the Smart Grid"There are various infiltration strategies adversaries can use to threaten the smart grid. For example, in a false-data injection attack, someone could hack into the grid's communication networks and replace actual measurements with false data. Denial-of-…
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"A Nested Inventory for Software Security, Supply Chain Risk Management"High-profile data breaches such as Kaseya and Apache Log4j continue to impact organizations, thus making software supply chain security more important than ever. A Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) consists of all the components and libraries used to…
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"First Search Result Leads to Malware: Crooks Now Paying for Ads"Cybercriminals continue to look for new methods to manipulate search results. They are flooding Google with paid advertisements through malvertising campaigns, which direct unsuspecting users to malicious websites that exploit their data and trust. The…
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"71 Percent of Organizations May Have Been Breached and Not Know About It"Vectra AI has released a new research report revealing that 97 percent of analysts are concerned about missing security events. Seventy-one percent acknowledge that their organization may have been compromised, but they are unaware of it. Analysts are…
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"Clop Drives Record Ransomware Activity in June"According to researchers at NCC Group, ransomware attacks in June soared 221% year-on-year to hit a record 434 for the month. The researchers claimed that the figures were driven by Clop’s targeting of global organizations via the MOVEit flaw, “…
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"Take the First Steps Towards Better Cybersecurity With these Four Goals"President Biden's National Security Memorandum on Improving Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure Control Systems required the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to develop a set of voluntary Cross-Sector Cybersecurity…
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"HHS, FTC Warn Hospitals and Telehealth Providers About Third-Party Tracking Tech"The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sent a letter to 130 hospitals and telehealth providers highlighting the security and privacy risks posed by third-party tracking…
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"Rite Aid Announces Data Breach That May Have Compromised Customers' Personal Information"Rite Aid recently announced that a data breach may have compromised customers' personal information. The drug store chain said an "unknown party" had accessed names, birth dates, addresses, and prescription information. The company noted that…