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In India, there have been several Multi-Level-Marketing (MLM) frauds. Investing in stock shares and commodities, paid per click, investing in the IT sector, or investing in infrastructure have all resulted in scams. Aaryarup/ATCR, Unipay, Stock guru, TVI Express, and others swindle over Rs 10,000 crores. Multi-level Marketing is a sales strategy by some companies to sell directly to the customers.

As the number of high-profile cyberattacks and data breaches has increased in recent years, more companies have made investments to better secure their systems and develop incident response plans. While these are essential concerns, a firm’s obligations don’t simply end when a threat is removed from the network and they are able to resume normal operations. They must also notify those whose data may have been impacted by the breach.

The increase in successful cyberattacks driven by both an explosion of ransomware activity and a series of high profile zero-day vulnerabilities, is forcing cyber insurers to further scrutinize the companies they insure and the policies they offer.

A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. For a daily selection see our twitter feed at #ionCube24.

Adoption of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications means navigating the Shared Responsibility Model. Under the Shared Responsibility Model, the cloud services provider takes care of the infrastructure’s security, but you need to secure what happens within that environment. According to the State of Cloud Native Security Report, 50% of companies surveyed reported that maintaining comprehensive security remained a challenge.

Rubrik Zero Labs is excited to share “The State of Data Security: The Human Impact of Cybercrime”. This in-depth global study commissioned by Rubrik and conducted by Wakefield Research gives businesses around the world a deeper look into the challenges that IT and security decision-makers face, the effects of those challenges, and subsequent solutions. This study engaged over 1,600 senior IT and cybersecurity leaders with more than half at the CIO and CISO level.

Using your browser’s password manager to save the passwords for all your accounts can be tempting. Although it seems like it’s going to be the most seamless experience, it’s actually not. Browser password managers are not safe because they are not encrypted and they can be easily compromised – leading to your passwords also being compromised and more. Read on to learn why browser password managers are not safe to utilize.

On November 1 the OpenSSL Project released patches addressing the previously rated "Critical" vulnerability that was pre-announced last week. The "Critical" rating has been downgraded to "High.".