Tag: cyberdefense
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2021 National Intelligence Threat Assessment Report: Cybersecurity Is Now a Top Priority
The 2021 Threat Assessment from the National Intelligence Service was issued on April 9th. In the new report, the U.S. intelligence community warned of a “diverse array” of global threats that could further destabilize a world shaken by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, technological change and international competition. The 2021 Annual Threat Assessment, an unclassified… Read more
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Helix22 Eliminates Zero-Day Attacks
What does Zero Day mean? A zero day is a security flaw for which the developer/vendor of the flawed system has yet to make a patch available to affected users. The name ultimately derives from the world of digital content piracy: if pirates were able to distribute a bootleg copy of a movie or album on… Read more
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Best Cloud Data Security Encryption Approach — BYOK? HYOK? or Helix22?
Data is moving to the cloud, there is no disputing that fact. However, inherent in migrating data, AI experiments and machine learning is that your data goes into the hands of a 3rd party and is reliant on their data security capabilities. Further, data privacy regulations mandate the organizations that collect the data remain responsible… Read more
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Slack & Discord Collaboration Platforms are Being Regularly Abused for Malware, Phishing and Ransomware Attacks
Threat actors are increasingly abusing collaboration platforms for nefarious purposes, including malware delivery and data exfiltration, security researchers with Cisco’s Talos division report. Covid-19 has meant more people working from home and utilizing collaboration platforms. With the COVID-19 pandemic forcing many organizations to switch to telework, interactive communication platforms such as Discord and Slack saw… Read more
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National Intelligence Councils Global Trends Report 2040 Warns of Unprecedented Surveillance
The National Intelligence Council issued it’s latest version of the Global Trends 2040 report. The Report is wide reaching, and they report a great deal of positivity in the technology space. However, they are of course concerned regarding the ability for Government’s and other leaders to have unbridled access to data and potentially imposing much… Read more
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Don’t Pay The Ransomware Before You Identify (and Fix) How Your Network Was Breached in the First Place
An unnamed company that fell victim to a ransomware attack and paid cyber criminals millions for the decryption key to restore their network fell victim to the exact same ransomware gang under two weeks later after failing to examine why the attack was able to happen in the first place. A primary goal at BLAKFX… Read more
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The Helix22 Data Security SDK is Quantum Immune
Quantum computing is an enigma. On one hand it promises future information security, but it also threatens all information currently protected by 2048-bit RSA encryption. Why is this? Put very simply, in our current model of computing, the power comes from parallel processing which can only be ascertained through linking separate processors. Parallel processing is… Read more
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Fortinet Is Flagged by the FBI and CISA for Vulnerabilites
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said that advanced hackers are likely exploiting critical vulnerabilities in the Fortinet FortiOS VPN in an attempt to plant a beachhead to breach medium and large-sized businesses in later attacks. “APT actors may use these vulnerabilities… Read more
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Facebook Fails Again on Protecting Personal Information
Facebook is not exactly known for its user privacy, but now over 500 million users have had their Personal Identifiable Information (PII) posted on the internet. The exposed data includes the personal information of over 533 million Facebook users from 106 countries, including over 32 million records on users in the US, 11 million on… Read more
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Federal Gov’t Seeks Improved Infrastructure Cyber Protection
Anne, Neuberger, a top Biden administration official says the government is undertaking a new effort to help electric utilities, water districts and other critical industries protect against potentially damaging cyberattacks. “Our aim is to ensure that control systems serving 50,000 or more Americans have the core technology to detect and block malicious cyber activity,” Anne… Read more