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Google Is Paying Apple $15 Billion per Year To Be Default Search Engine on Devices, Says Investment Analyst

Investment analyst Toni Sacconaghi, senior research analyst with AB Bernstein and regular guest on CNBC, made waves last week with an investor note claiming that

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ICS Vulnerabilities Increased by 41% In Six Months Amidst High Profile Attacks on Critical Infrastructure

Critical infrastructure like industrial control systems (ICS) experienced increased frequency of high and critical vulnerabilities, according to a new report. Claroty’s biannual ICS Risk & Vulnerability Report found that

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5G and Cybersecurity – A Realistic Path Forward

5G Technolgy has been increasing in popularity among the telecom companies creating it and organizations that consume wireless networks. The reasons for this are not

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F5 Patches 29 Security Vulnerabilities; Bug Allows Complete System Takeover in Sensitive Sectors

F5 released patches of more than two dozen security vulnerabilities impacting BIG-IP and BIG-IQ products. Notably, is the F5 bug CVE-2021-23031 (CVSS 8.8) which is elevated to

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Ragnarok Ransomware Gang Closes Up Shop, Leaves Master Decryptor Key Behind

The Ragnarok ransomware gang, which has terrorized all types of organizations around the world since 2019, appears to have gone out of business. The group

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The Cloud Is Coming Back Home

Securing a corporate network isn’t easy, and the IT professionals responsible for it must consider many things about the company, including its culture and the

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LockFile Ransomware Attacks Exploit ProxyShell Vulnerabilities on Unpatched Microsoft Exchange Servers

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an emergency alert over Microsoft Exchange ProxyShell vulnerabilities being actively exploited by threat actors in the wild. At the same

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South Korea Issues Fines to Facebook, Netflix Over Privacy Violations

South Korea has quietly developed one of the more robust sets of data protection regulations in the world, and the country recently brought these terms

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Why “Ransomware Insurance” Causes Healthcare Industry to Overlook Deeper, Underlying Security Issues

In most circumstances, insuring your organization against potential threats is a solid idea. Within this frame of logic, particularly for a healthcare organization, a sector

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Citrix Vulnerability Exploited for Cyber Attack on US Census in January 2020; Government Says Hackers Did Not Access Census Results

News has recently emerged that the United States Census Bureau was compromised by a cyber attack in January 2020, just as the decennial census efforts