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National Cybersecurity Alliance Receives 200K Grant From Craig Newmark Philanthropies for HBCU Cybersecurity Program

National Cybersecurity Alliance Receives 200K Grant From Craig Newmark Philanthropies for HBCU Cybersecurity Program

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August 28, 2023- WASHINGTON – The National Cybersecurity Alliance (NCA) today announced it has received a significant boost in funding from Craig Newmark Philanthropies. The $200,000 grant will support ongoing initiatives within NCA’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Cybersecurity Career, Mentoring, and Scholarship Program, as students return to school. Launched in 2022, the ‘See Yourself In […]

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Fake Signal and Telegram apps sneak malware into thousands of Android phones — delete these right now | Tom's Guide

Fake Signal and Telegram apps sneak malware into thousands of Android phones — delete these right now | Tom’s Guide

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Hackers have developed a sneaky new tactic to push malware onto your phone and snoop on your conversations. Researchers at the cybersecurity firm ESET found fake apps in the Google and Samsung app stores that posed as extensions or premium versions of the popular messaging platforms Signal and Telegram designed to steal user data.  The

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Everest Group Research: C-Suite Must Recognize Critical Difference Between Cybersecurity and Cyber Resilience

Everest Group Research: C-Suite Must Recognize Critical Difference Between Cybersecurity and Cyber Resilience

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DALLAS, Aug. 29, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Everest Group is calling on enterprises to make the critical shift in focus from cybersecurity to cyber resilience. While cybersecurity focuses on safeguarding against threats, cyber resilience emphasizes the ability to withstand, respond and recover quickly from them. Everest Group issues this call to action in its recently published “State of the

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Danger: This Android malware can unlock your phone and drain your bank account | Tom's Guide

Danger: This Android malware can unlock your phone and drain your bank account | Tom’s Guide

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Hackers have created a new Android malware which can remotely wake up your smartphone, unlock the screen and then steal data as well as funds from your bank accounts in real-time. As reported by BleepingComputer, this new Android banking malware has been dubbed MMRat by security researchers at Trend Micro who first discovered it back

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Data From The Qakbot Malware is Now Searchable in Have I Been Pwned, Courtesy of the FBI

Data From The Qakbot Malware is Now Searchable in Have I Been Pwned, Courtesy of the FBI

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Today, the US Justice Department announced a multinational operation involving actions in the United States, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom to disrupt the botnet and malware known as Qakbot and take down its infrastructure. Beyond just taking down the backbone of the operation, the FBI began actively intercepting traffic from the botnet

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FBI, European agencies announce major takedown of hacker network that used Qakbot software - ABC7 Los Angeles

FBI, European agencies announce major takedown of hacker network that used Qakbot software – ABC7 Los Angeles

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LOS ANGELES — The FBI and its European partners infiltrated and seized control of a major global malware network used for more than 15 years to commit a gamut of online crimes including crippling ransomware attacks, U.S. officials said Tuesday. They then remotely removed the malicious software agent – known as Qakbot – from thousands

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Unleashing the Power of Data Archiving: Benefits for Companies and the Roadmap to Success

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Introduction: In today’s data-driven world, businesses generate more data than ever. As this data accumulates, so does the need for efficient storage and management solutions. Data archiving, a practice that involves moving rarely accessed or inactive data to a long-term storage system, has become increasingly important for companies of all sizes. In this article, we’ll

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Backup scheduling best practises to ensure availability

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Imagine a scale where the two endpoints represent two extreme data protection policies. The endpoint on the left-hand side of the scale is marked, “good backup of the system when it was configured and released into Production” (i.e. “day-zero backup”). The endpoint on the right-hand side of the scale is marked, “real-time mirroring/replication”. These two

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iSCSI vs. NFS – which one is better choice for Instant VM?

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iSCSI vs. NFS – which one is better choice for Instant VM? Occasionally I come across a discussion about which approach is better to serve backup data to an Instant VM – iSCSI or NFS, or any others? Those who advocate NFS quite often say that if the target hypervisor supports NFS storage and the

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Are your backups safe from Malware?

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Recent reports from multiple sources reveal the weight of ransomware attacks has recently skewed towards MSP networks. Sources confirm in some cases the hacker’s penetration causes disabling backup and disaster recovery (BDR) systems. Depending on how MSP’s handle end-customer separation from MSP environment – the ransomware can either be propagated to the end-user fleet, or

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