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"CISA Orders Federal Agencies to Regularly Track Network Assets and Vulnerabilities"The US Homeland Security Department's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a new Binding Operational Directive (BOD) requiring federal agencies across the country to keep track of assets and vulnerabilities on their networks…
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"Telstra Suffers 'Sizeable' Data Breach, Mandates Two-Step Security Upgrade"Telstra, Australia's largest telecoms operator, has experienced a data breach and has informed customers that they must enable two-factor authentication (2FA). The announcement of enhanced security measures comes just two weeks after a similar attack on…
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"Senators' Plan to Secure Open Source Software Involves Agencies Using More of It"According to legislation reported by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, top cybersecurity officials should guide agencies toward using and contributing to open-source code libraries. The Securing Open Source Software Act of…
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"The H2020 CARAMEL Project Ends by Opening Promising New Research Avenues in the Field of Innovative Anti-hacking Solutions for the Future of Connected and Automated Vehicles"The EU Horizon 2020 program-funded project called CARAMEL concluded, opening promising new research areas in the realm of innovative anti-hacking solutions for the future of Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs). The CARAMEL project partners have…
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"New IBM Study Finds Cybersecurity Incident Responders Have Strong Sense of Service as Threats Cross Over to Physical World"IBM Security has released the results of a global survey on the critical role of cybersecurity incident responders at a time when the physical and digital worlds are converging more. The study discovered that incident responders surveyed are motivated…
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"Why Human Nature Often Trumps Security"Globally, CEOs are most concerned about cybersecurity risk, with increased risks and awareness driving more investment in network defenses and security features. However, there is one threat that executives cannot avoid, which is humans. According to…
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"Ex-NSA Employee Charged For Trying to Sell US Secrets"Recently a former US National Security Agency (NSA) employee was arrested after trying to sell classified information to an undercover Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent posing as a foreign spy working for a foreign government. Jareh…
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"Akamai Reports Massive Spike in Malicious Domain Activity"Akamai has announced today that it identified nearly 79 million malicious domains in the first half of 2022, accounting for slightly over 20 percent of all Newly Observed Domains (NODs) accessed via its Content Delivery Network (CDN) and other services.…
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"LA Unified School District: Hackers Have Posted Stolen Data Online"The second largest school district in the US recently warned that hackers have begun posting data they claim to have stolen from the institution last month. The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), which serves over 600,000 students from…
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"CISA Rolls Out Protective DNS Offering to Federal Agencies"The US Homeland Security Department's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has announced that its Protective Domain Name System (DNS), which is the agency's latest shared service offering, is now available to all Federal civilian…
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"GAO Calls on OCR to Educate Patients on Telehealth Security, Privacy Risks"The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) reviewed Medicare telehealth services provided during the pandemic, recommending that the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) give providers additional guidance on communicating telehealth security and privacy…
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"Cloudflare's Post-quantum Cryptography Protects Almost a Fifth of the Internet"The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) estimates that quantum computers will be able to decrypt public key algorithms on April 14, 2030. Although many organizations are waiting for post-quantum threats to become tangible before taking action, other providers…