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National Westminster Bank, the London-based bank familiarly known as NatWest, has warned its customers to be on the alert for emails pretending to be from NatWest, but which in fact are from scammers trying to bubble the unwary out of their savings.

U.S. officials confirmed last week that a member of the military photographed and uploaded more than 50 classified documents to a Discord server and other social media sites, again reminding us of the danger insider threats can present to any organization. According to the Associated Press, a member of the U.S. Air National Guard was arrested last week in Massachusetts in connection with the leak.

We’ve used passwords to protect our private data for a very long time. But if you don’t use a password manager, it can be difficult to keep them memorized – especially if you’re using strong, unique passwords for each account.

Every day the world discovers (and creates) new problems in the field of information security. Fresh bugs randomly pop out of nowhere, someone develops brand-new malware, and insiders continue to leak confidential information leading to the closure of the businesses - so how do companies cope with all the chaos? And what to do if there is no feasible way to create a security department within the organization? Is it worth it or wise to outsource such a critical life-saving function? Maybe.

Protecting data and protecting business continuity are both similar and different. In a data driven world, your mission as a security analyst is to prevent threat actors from gaining unauthorized access to sensitive data and systems. Simultaneously, you also need to investigate incidents rapidly, ensuring that critical services experience as little downtime as possible.

Rubrik Zero Labs is excited to debut its second State of Data Security report: “The State of Data Security: The Hard Truths.” This in-depth global study is the first public use of Rubrik telemetry data to provide objective data security insights. Rubrik data is complemented by an extensive third-party study conducted by Wakefield Research, which provides a deeper look into the challenges IT and security decision-makers face, the impacts of these challenges, and possible solutions.

Like all cybersecurity providers, Blumira has had to respond to the rise of remote and hybrid work models. But given Blumira’s focus on SMBs and mid-market companies, they found many businesses in their target market priced out of mature endpoint monitoring solutions—or without the technical ability and infrastructure to run the endpoint agents a larger organization might use.

Detecting and remediating security threats is a constantly evolving concern for modern DevSecOps and security operations center (SOC) teams. Moreover, manually investigating and responding to vulnerabilities and threats is time-consuming, laborious, and knowledge-intensive.

According to OpenLogic’s Open Source Adoption and Expansion in 2022 Report, the adoption of Open Source Software (OSS) across all sizes of organizations is rising with 40% of respondents stating an increase of OSS software over the previous year and 36% reporting a significant increase in OSS software usage. The increase in OSS adoption can be attributed to a number of factors including access to the latest innovations, reduction in costs and frequent product updates.

The U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is taking proactive measures to protect the nation’s transportation system by issuing new cybersecurity requirements for airports and aircraft operators. These emergency actions from TSA are part of the plan to increase the cyber resiliency of critical infrastructure and prevent their degradation or disruption.