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Potential Struggles IT Companies might Encounter with Incident Identification and Reporting Today

The complexities of incident identification and reporting in IT, touching on coordination problems, tool inadequacies, and process deficiencies. It explores modern challenges like cyber threats and alert fatigue, as well as the cognitive gap.

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28.3.2024

Information Security Risk Management: A Step-by-step Guide to a Clear Process

This post offers a comprehensive guide on managing information security risks, from pre-steps like asset identification to evaluation, treatment and monitoring. A crucial aspect given the surge of cyber vulnerabilities amid increasing tech advances.

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21.3.2024

Ransomware, AI Act 101, NIST CSF 2.0: Cyberday product and news round up 3/2024 🛡️

In the March digest, development themes include new frameworks, risk management improvements and a new visual view for documentation cards. The news features Information Security Trailblazers, data breaches and AI Act 101.

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21.3.2024

Empowering Employees: The Keystone in Incident Detection and Reporting

Employees are vital for detecting and reporting cyber threats and bolstering security. Proper training fosters a resilient culture, ensuring timely responses and safeguarding against breaches.

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15.3.2024

Incident reporting in NIS2: Requirements and related ISO 27001 best practices

This post outlines NIS2 incident reporting and further describes ISO 27001 best practices, and their application in crafting successful incident reporting processes for your organization.

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8.3.2024

Top 7 information security standards, frameworks and laws explained

Many information security frameworks are available to help organizations build their own security plans. This article provides key information about some of the most popular information security frameworks.

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4.3.2024

ISO 27001 and NIS2: Understanding their Connection

Learn how the ISO 27001 and the NIS2 are "connected" and why they are brought up together pretty often. Understand their differences and synergy with the help of this blog post.

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1.3.2024

Guide to Incident Detection and Reporting: Prepared for the Worst

In this guide you'll learn to navigate the incident detection and reporting process, explore various mechanisms, understand reporting, documentation, and derive crucial lessons. We also glance at other ingredients for successful incident management.

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22.2.2024

Blizzard hit by massive DDoS attack; EA Sports facing lagging issue

By Waqas Blizzard has been hit by massive DDoS attack - Here's what's happening and here's where its service is down... This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Blizzard hit by massive DDoS attack; EA Sports facing lagging issue

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15.5.2020
Denial-of-Service Attacks

Is remote work the new normal?

As COVID-19 continues to spread, remote work is no longer an experiment, but a requirement in many nations. While it represents a huge change, the results of a research conducted by OnePoll and Citrix, reveal that a majority of employees around the world are adapting to working from home and believe it will become the new normal for the way work gets done. “Remote work is not business as usual. It represents a totally new … More → The post Is remote work the new normal? appeared first on Help Net Security.

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15.5.2020
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Modern malware is increasingly leveraging evasive behaviors

Modern malware is increasingly leveraging evasive behaviors, a new report by VMware Carbon Black released at RSA Conference 2020 has revealed. The report uncovers the top attack tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) seen over the last year and provides specific guidance on ransomware, commodity malware, wipers, access mining and destructive attacks. Among some of the key findings from the report: Defense evasion behavior was seen in more than 90 percent of the 2,000 samples they … More → The post Modern malware is increasingly leveraging evasive behaviors appeared first on Help Net Security.

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15.5.2020
Malware

Hackers are actively exploiting zero-days in several WordPress plugins

There's quite the WordPress p0wnage going on right now.

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15.5.2020
Unpatched Vulnerabilities

The “Great Cannon” has been deployed again

SummaryThe Great Cannon is a distributed denial of service tool (“DDoS”) that operates by injecting malicious Javascript into pages served from behind the Great Firewall. These scripts, potentially served to millions of users across the internet, hijack the users’ connections to make multiple requests against the targeted site.

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15.5.2020
Denial-of-Service Attacks

What’s preventing organizations from making pragmatic security decisions?

Human beings are poor judges of risk. For example, we perceive the risk of air travel to be higher than it actually is after a fatal aviation-related accident happens. We also tend to dismiss risks just because we don’t see a tangible negative impact right away. This is, for example, what prevents many from making dental hygiene a priority: we all know dental hygiene is critical to our health and a relatively easy “investment”, but … More → The post What’s preventing organizations from making pragmatic security decisions? appeared first on Help Net Security.

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15.5.2020
Employee Negligence

Ako Ransomware Uses Spam to Infect Its Victims

It has been discovered that the network-targeting Ako ransomware is being distributed through malicious spam attachments that pretend to be a requested agreement. Last week we reported on the Ako Ransomware and how it was targeting companies with the intent to encrypt their entire network. ID Ransomware Submissions David Pickett, a Senior Cybersecurity Analyst at AppRiver, reached out to BleepingComputer yesterday to tell us that his company saw the Ako ransomware being distributed through spam email. Spam email distributing the Ako Ransomware Attached to these emails is a password-protected zip file named agreement.zip with the password '2020' being given in the email. Agreement.zip Archive As shown by this report from JoeSandbox, when Ako is executed it will encrypt the victim's files and leave them with a ransom note named ako-readme.txt. Ako Ransom Note As spam is being used to spread the Ako Ransomware, everyone must be is trained on how to properly identify malicious email and not open any attachments without first confirming who and why they were sent.

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15.5.2020
Ransomware

Oscar Nominated Movies Featured in Phishing, Malware Attacks

Attackers are exploiting the hype surrounding this year's Oscar Best Picture nominated movies to infect fans with malware and to bait them to phishing websites designed to steal sensitive info such as credit card details and personal information. [...]

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15.5.2020
Phishing

Why You Should Be Prepared to Fight Against Advanced Persistent Threats

APTs may already be targeting your organization. You need to formulate comprehensive cybersecurity strategies, implement robust and stringent security measures, and test your defenses to ensure that you’re protected.

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15.5.2020
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