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2024-03-13 Post a Comment

NSA Releases Top Ten Best Practices For Cloud Environments

ByTushar Subhra Dutta: Threat actors aim at Cloud environmentsÂ because of their wide acceptance and one-stop storage of important information. Exploiting shortcomings in cloud security may enable unauthorized access to sensitive data, interruptions in infrastructure, or earning money. The fact that the systems are highly scalable and interconnected makes them good targets for cyber-attacks. Cybersecurity analysts at the NSA recently released the top ten best security practices for cloud environments. […]

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2024-03-13 Post a Comment

Why you should make a cloud backup this March

ByÂ Luke Hughes March 30 isÂ World Backup Day. No, you donâ€™t get the day off. Itâ€™s an initiative backed by some of the providers we recommend in ourÂ cloud backupÂ guide like Mega and Backblaze, and evenÂ Amazon, asking everyone – individuals? Organizations? – to make at least one backup of their precious data. At TechRadar Pro, we, and maybe you too, reader, believe that any person or business refusing to admit the mortality […]

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Cyber security

2024-03-13 Post a Comment

Report: people increasingly concerned about personal data safety

Gintaras Radauskas Â Senior journalist Most consumers are willing to switch to products that offer better data protection technology, but the problem is that Gen Z â€“ the future â€“ doesnâ€™t care about data privacy as much as other generations. In its latest research report, â€œData Privacy in 2024: Bringing Zero-Knowledge to the Masses,â€ Aleo, a privacy-preserving blockchain platform, cites data showing that people are increasingly worried about who controls their […]

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2024-03-10 Post a Comment

Top US cybersecurity agency hacked and forced to take some systems offline

ByÂ Sean Lyngaas, CNN Â 2 minute read Published 7:37 PM EST, Fri March 8, 2024 A federal agency in charge of cybersecurity discovered it was hacked last month and was forced to take two key computer systems offline, an agency spokesperson and US officials familiar with the incident told CNN. One of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agencyâ€™s affected systems runs a program that allows federal, state and local officials […]

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Hackers steal Windows NTLM authentication hashes in phishing attacks

By Bill Toulas The hackingÂ group known as TA577Â has recently shifted tactics by using phishing emails to steal NT LAN Manager (NTLM) authentication hashes to perform account hijacks. TA577 is considered an initial access broker (IAB), previously associated with Qbot and linked to Black Basta ransomware infections. Email security firm Proofpoint reports today that although it has seen TA577 showing a preference for deploying Pikabot recently, two recent attack waves demonstrate […]