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Name That Toon: Sleep Like a Baby

Babies sure know how to melt their parents' hearts. What could the pair above be saying? Send us your ideas for the perfect caption. The one with the most...
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Code-Sabotage Incident in Protest of Ukraine War Exposed Open Source Risks

The maintainer of a widely used open source module for Windows, Linux, and Mac environments recently sabotaged its functionality to protest the war in Ukraine and in the process...
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Multiple Automotive Manufacturers Infected With Emotet

A wave of potential pre-ransomware activity has been spotted targeting the manufacturing sector: OT security firm Dragos warned this week of several automotive manufacturers now infected with the infamous...
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Cut Down on Alert Overload and Leverage Layered Security Measures

It's probably one of the more annoying parts of the job — those persistent pings alerting you that something may be wrong. Fortunately, there are best practices that IT...
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VPNs Give Russians an End Run Around Censorship

Russian citizens seeking to continue using social media sites and accessing international news have caused the demand for virtual private network (VPN) services to spike by a factor of...
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How Pen Testing Gains Critical Security Buy-in and Defense Insight

Sometimes stepping into hackers' shoes is the only way to truly guard against them. That's why so many organizations include penetration testing in their cybersecurity posture, with 85% of...
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NAS Vendor Says Several of Its Products Likely Contain Linux ‘Dirty Pipe’ Flaw

Taiwan-based network attached storage (NAS) device vendor QNAP has identified several of its products as potentially containing a severe Linux vulnerability dubbed "Dirty Pipe," which was first disclosed last...
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Mobile Threats Skyrocket

The volume of mobile threats is increasing and attackers are growing more sophisticated, with almost a third of zero-day attacks now targeting mobile devices, new data shows.In its annual mobile...
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How Enterprises Can Get Used to Deploying AI for Security

It's one thing to tell organizations that artificial intelligence (AI) can spot patterns and shut down attacks better, faster, or even just more effectively than what human security analysts...