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Could criminalizing ransomware payments put a stop to the current crime wave?
In this Help Net Security video, Charl van der Walt, Head of Security Research, Orange Cyberdefense, discusses whether criminalizing ransomware payments could quell the …
Stratus Red Team: Open-source tool for adversary emulation in the cloud
In this Help Net Security video, Christophe Tafani-Dereeper, Cloud Security Researcher and Advocate at DataDog, talks about Stratus Red Team, an open-source project for …
Cyberattacks on healthcare organizations negatively impact patient care
Cynerio and the Ponemon Institute have examined the current impact of cyberattacks on healthcare facilities and network-connected IoT and medical devices, and found multiple …
Data privacy regulation a top three challenge for IoT adopters
Fears over security have become less of a concern for organizations adopting IoT solutions than it was five years ago, according to a recent study by Wi-SUN Alliance, a global …
What Black Hat USA 2022 attendees are concerned about
Black Hat released its Supply Chain and Cloud Security Risks Are Top of Mind survey. The report highlights important findings from more than 180 of experienced cybersecurity …
Week in review: Spot deep-faked job candidates, data exfiltration via bookmarks, Patch Tuesday forecast
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Browser synchronization abuse: Bookmarks as a covert data exfiltration …
Threats targeting fintech companies are on the rise
In Q1 of 2022, fintech companies experienced 2.5 times more attacks than in the two previous years. The growing rate of cybercrime has added to the market unrest and …
August 2022 Patch Tuesday forecast: Printers again?
July 2022 Patch Tuesday came and went quietly as expected. Microsoft addressed 40 CVEs in Windows 11 and 46 CVEs in the Windows 10 set of updates. It was a little unusual …
Risk astute leadership: Converting intelligence into actionable controls
In this Help Net Security video, John deCraen, Associate Managing Director at Kroll, talks about risk astute leadership and the leveraging of threat intelligence to inform …
MI-X: Open source project helps you understand whether you are exploitable
In this Help Net Security video, Ofri Ouzan, Security Researcher at Rezilion, talks about MI-X (Am I Exploitable?), an open source tool aimed at effectively determining …
Organizations grew to love Kubernetes: Usage in production is high
Kubernetes is delivering business value and is set to win an increasing share of production workloads, with almost all respondents to a Dimensional Research study saying they …
Phishing campaign targets Coinbase wallet holders to steal cryptocurrency in real-time
In this video for Help Net Security, Nick Ascoli, VP of Threat Research, PIXM, discusses a multilayered phishing campaign targeting cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase. Attackers …
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