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58% of orgs predict remote workers will expose them to data breach risk

35% of UK IT decision makers admitted that their remote workers have already knowingly put corporate data at risk of a breach in the last year according to an annual survey …

Fraud losses
eCommerce fraud losses to surpass $20 billion this year

The value of losses due to eCommerce fraud will rise this year, from $17.5 billion in 2020 to over $20 billion by 2021; a growth of 18% over a single year, according to a …

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PCI SSC publishes PCI Secure Software Standard 1.1 and supporting program documentation

Version 1.1 of the PCI Secure Software Standard introduces the Terminal Software Module, a new security requirements module for payment software intended for deployment and …

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Week in review: QNAP NAS ransomware, threat modeling, the realities of working in cybersecurity

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles and interviews: Attackers can teach you to defend your organization against phishing Using the kill …

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Shedding light on the threat posed by shadow admins

Few organizations would purposefully hand a huge responsibility to a junior staff member before letting them fly solo on their own personal projects, but that’s effectively …

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APIs in the insurance industry: Accessing a growing world of data

The insurance industry is vast and varied. It can be found in nearly every country in the world, with the earliest references dating back as early as 1750 BC. Modern …

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Researchers develop program that helps assess encryption systems’ vulnerabilities

Anastasia Malashina, a doctoral student at HSE University, has proposed a new method to assess vulnerabilities in encryption systems, which is based on a brute-force search of …

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Lack of visibility into IT assets impacting security priorities

Axonius released a report which reveals the extremes to which the pandemic escalated lack of visibility into IT assets and how that is impacting security priorities. According …

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AI can alter geospatial data to create deepfake geography

A fire in Central Park seems to appear as a smoke plume and a line of flames in a satellite image. Colorful lights on Diwali night in India, seen from space, seem to show …

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PKI market valuation to cross $7 billion by 2027

The market valuation of public key infrastructure will cross $7 billion by 2027, according to Global Market Insights. Rising digital interaction and reliance on digital …

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48 recommendations for a global fight against ransomware

The Institute for Security and Technology’s Ransomware Task Force (RTF) has released a comprehensive strategic framework to help worldwide organizations fight against …

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Q1 2021 ransomware trends: Most attacks involved threat to leak stolen data

The vast majority of ransomware attacks now include the theft of corporate data, Coveware says, but victims of data exfiltration extortion have very little to gain by paying a …

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