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What is a Brute Force Attack in Cybersecurity and How to Prevent it

Jul 19, 2024 By Steven In IDStrong
In the world today, there is a plethora of critical data circulating the internet, leading to complex attacks like brute force attacks. Individuals who are after this data for the wrong purpose and who use brute force attacks to gain access to these data are called cyber attackers.
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CalCom

Fix CrowdStrike's BSOD with Hardening

Jul 19, 2024 By John Gates In CalCom
CrowdStrike, is a prominent cybersecurity technology company that provides security services for endpoints, cloud workloads, identity, and data. They are well-known for their Falcon Sensor Software designed to protect against cyberattacks. On Thursday, July 18 2024 there was a crash on Microsoft systems related to an update in Falcon Sensor software. This update involved a single file that added extra logic for detecting bad actors.
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centripetal

Take Action Now on NIS2 Directive

Jul 19, 2024 By Rebecca Lindley In Centripetal
It’s time to ‘Have Your Say’ on the future of cybersecurity regulations in the European Union. The draft implementing regulation for the NIS2 Directive is now open for public feedback through the ‘Have Your Say’ portal until July 25, 2024. This consultation period allows stakeholders to contribute to refining the regulation, with all feedback shaping the final regulations.
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Rubrik

CrowdStrike & Rubrik Customer Content Update Recovery For Windows Hosts

Jul 19, 2024 By Joshua Stenhouse In Rubrik
Joint customers utilizing Rubrik for immutable backup are recommended to utilize Rubrik in-place recoveries for impacted Windows VMware Virtual Machines (VMs), standard VM restores for Azure VMs, AWS EC2 instances, and live mounts for Hyper-V and AHV VMs. For VMware VMs this significantly reduces the recovery time by only recovering the changed blocks required to revert the VM to a snapshot before the 04:09 UTC CrowdStrike host update.
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upguard

Preparing for Cybersecurity Audits: Insights from US Regulations

Jul 19, 2024 By Leah Sadoian In UpGuard
Cybersecurity regulations often include audits that assess and strengthen an organization’s defenses against increasing cyber threats. In the United States, various cybersecurity regulations, including HIPAA, SOX, PCI DSS, and more, require audits. Each audit ensures your organization meets the required standards outlined in the regulation while also strengthening its overall cybersecurity framework.
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knowbe4

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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keeper

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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foresiet

WazirX Cyberattack: A Major Blow to the Indian Cryptocurrency Market

Jul 19, 2024 By Foresiet In Foresiet
On Wednesday night, the Indian cryptocurrency platform WazirX experienced a significant cyberattack, resulting in the theft of at least $230 million worth of cryptocurrency. The breach was first detected by several blockchain security companies, including Elliptic, Arkham, and BlockSec. These firms observed large amounts of digital coins being siphoned out of WazirX before the platform acknowledged the security breach.
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knowbe4

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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