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Last year’s most popular posts on the Unit 42 Threat Research blog let us examine what the events of 2022 can tell us about the year to come. Even before the beginning of the recent events starting in February 2022, there was significant cybersecurity activity in Eastern Europe. All Eyes on Eastern Europe. Beginning on Jan.
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The Open Source Software Security Mobilization Plan ” (The Linux Foundation and The Open Source Security Foundation). The Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization (AMTSO) has released a guide for helping security teams test and benchmark IoT security products, an area the non-profit group says is still in its infancy.
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