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Should I Use ChatGPT to Create Passwords?

Jul 19, 2024 By Ashley D'Andrea In Keeper
No, you should not use ChatGPT to create passwords because it will likely produce the same password for multiple users and what you input will live on in its database. For those of you who are unfamiliar with what ChatGPT is and does, it is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) program used to follow instructions through prompts and provide a user with answers to both simple and complex questions.
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Top Questions CISOs Should Ask: How To Guide The Development Of A Secure DevSecOps Strategy

Jul 19, 2024 By Daria Kulikova In GitProtect
With the threat landscape being on the rise, CISOs need to be much more attentive while building the organization’s security strategy. Constantly arising vulnerabilities, ransomware attacks, critical workflows, outages – all of that require CISOs to stay up to date to security issues and keep their finger on the pulse to change their security strategy once the prerequisites pop up. We’ve been tracking GitHub, GitLab, and Atlassian -related incidents for the latest few years…
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78% of Organizations Are Targets of Ransomware Attacks Two or More Times in Twelve Months

Jul 19, 2024 By Stu Sjouwerman In KnowBe4
New data puts the spotlight on the frequency and impact of modern ransomware attacks, highlighting the overconfidence organizations are showing in their ability to defend and respond to attacks. If you’re like one of the organizations surveyed in Halcyon’s latest Ransomware CISO Survey report, the findings were quite eye opening.
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SASE: Your Secret Weapon to Mastering DORA Compliance

Jul 19, 2024 By Rich Beckett In Netskope
A lot has happened since the 2008 financial crisis and credit crunch, including a significant increase in cloud app adoption in financial services and a rise in cyber attacks targeting those apps. To keep the financial sector safe and secure, the EU introduced new rules. Initially, these regulations focused on ensuring banks had enough capital to handle financial problems. However, as cyberattacks became a bigger threat, the EU recognised the need for additional measures.
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Cloud-to-Cloud Restore: Ensuring Data Security and Disaster Recovery in the Cloud Era

Jul 19, 2024 By Parablu In Parablu
Last year, 95% of organizations faced some kind of data outage or disruption. The impact of these incidents was overwhelming, with an average cost of $1.7 million per incident. This statistic shows how important it is for organizations to have a data safety plan. Organizations need robust measures to ensure data resiliency and effective disaster recovery. One such solution is cloud-to-cloud restore. Backup is the key to recovering and restoring your data in such scenarios.
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Arctic Wolf

The Top Cyber Attack Vectors Organizations Face

Jul 19, 2024 By Arctic Wolf In Arctic Wolf
Recent research by Arctic Wolf has revealed that, within the last 12 months, 48% of organizations identified evidence of a successful breach within their environment. As The State of Cybersecurity: 2024 Trends Report highlights, “To fully understand the gravity of this statistic, it is important to understand that, although 48% of these environments found evidence of a data breach, that does not inversely mean that 52% of organizations did not suffer a breach.”
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CrowdStrike Phishing Attacks Appear in Record Time

Jul 19, 2024 By Stu Sjouwerman In KnowBe4
I have been the CEO of an anti-virus software developer. We had a special acronym for catastrophic events like this, a so-called "CEE". As in Company Extinction Event. Within hours of mass IT outages on Friday, a surge of new domains began appearing online, all sharing one common factor: the name CrowdStrike. As the company grapples with a global tech outage that has delayed flights and disrupted emergency services, opportunistic cybercriminals are quick to exploit the chaos.
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Technical Fix for Global IT Outage - CrowdStrike and Microsoft Incident

Jul 19, 2024 By Arctic Wolf In Arctic Wolf
Our team at Arctic Wolf has been following the CrowdStrike issue affecting Windows endpoints since approximately 12 AM EST on July 19th, 2024. Although Arctic Wolf’s service is not impacted, some of our customers who leverage CrowdStrike for endpoint security are experiencing widespread outages. Arctic Wolf continues to protect and monitor these customers’ environments while they focus their attention on recovering from this event.
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CrowdStrike Windows Outage

Jul 19, 2024 By Stripe OLT In Stripe OLT
Across the world, Windows computers have by effected the dreaded Blue Screen of Death (BSOD). This appears to have been caused by an outage of services provided by cyber security provider, CrowdStrike, and has impacted a large number of organisations – from banks to airlines. According to recent announcements, “CrowdStrike is actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts,” CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said on X.
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