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A new report from Accenture predicts an escalation of Iran-based cyber-threat activity; a broadening attack of global supply chains; increased targeting of critical infrastructure; as well as new and growing avenues of financially motivated cybercrime.
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The US FBI is warning organizations to be aware that cyber actors actively search for and compromise vulnerable Internet of Things (IoT) devices for use as proxies or intermediaries for Internet requests to route malicious traffic for cyber-attacks and computer network exploitation.
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F-Secure research shows that spam remains the most common method of spreading malicious URLs, scams and malware more than 40 years after the first email spam was sent.
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According to a new SANS survey, as security operations centers (SOCs) continue to mature, they are facing critical staffing and retention issues. Respondents also indicated that SOCs have no choice but to evolve, as the use of cloud, mobile, personal and Industrial IoT force their evolution.
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The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) has opened many security concerns, confusion about what constitutes an endpoint and unrealistic perspectives on protecting systems and data, according to the 2018 SANS Industrial IoT Security Survey report.
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Nick Sacke discusses the issue of IoT security and how concerns around it are a priority for organizations when it comes to deploying IoT services, especially when using existing networks that are known to be vulnerable.
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Downtime has been a bugbear for organizations every since IT systems first started to be used, but according to a University of Chicago study, the causes of downtime are still often unknown. Doron Pinhas asks why this is still the case and looks at improvements that can be made.
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Bitglass recently published a survey revealing that IT and cybersecurity professionals are continuing to struggle with visibility and data protection in the cloud. Whilst IT and security professionals acknowledge the shortcomings of traditional security tools for the cloud, many have yet to fill these gaps with effective cloud-focused security tools.
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Despite 95 percent of CIOs expecting cyber threats to increase over the next three years, only 65 percent of their organizations currently have a cyber security expert, according to a survey from Gartner.
