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Window Snyder’s new startup Thistle Technologies raises $2.5M seed to secure IoT devices

TechCrunch

The Internet of Things has a security problem. The past decade has seen wave after wave of new internet-connected devices, from sensors through to webcams and smart home tech, often manufactured in bulk but with little — if any — consideration to security. Her new startup, Thistle Technologies , is backed with $2.5

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Fixed wireless access (FWA) is a secure networking option

CIO

When making decisions about network access, businesses need to be aware of and assess the security implications associated with network technology to help keep their digital assets protected. Fixed wireless access is a type of 5G or 4G LTE wireless technology that enables fixed broadband access using radio frequencies instead of cables.

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Government Advisories Warn of APT Activity Resulting from Russian Invasion of Ukraine

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Government agencies publish warnings and guidance for organizations to defend themselves against advanced persistent threat groups. The alert highlights the following sectors as key targets for the APT groups: defense industrial base, healthcare and public health, energy, telecommunications and government facilities. Government.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: RansomHub Group Triggers CISA Warning, While FBI Says North Korean Hackers Are Targeting Crypto Orgs

Tenable

Preferred initial-access targets include internet-exposed systems and endpoints, while its go-to attack methods are phishing emails, known-vulnerability exploitation and password spraying. Don’t keep crypto-wallet information, such as logins and passwords, in devices connected to the internet.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: CISOs Value Prevention Over Response, While CISA Urges Cyber Teams To Prep for Quantum Attacks

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government says public- and private-sector organizations alike must start getting ready now – especially critical infrastructure operators. The vast majority of enterprises polled – 95% – experienced multiple cyberattacks in the past 12 months, with phishing (74%), malware (60%) and software vulnerability exploits (50%) being the most common.

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Protecting Local Government Agencies with a Whole-of-State Cybersecurity Approach

Tenable

Facing frequent and aggressive cyberattacks, local governments often struggle to defend themselves due to a lack of tools and resources. With a whole-of-state approach, local governments can pool resources and boost their defenses, reducing cyber risk via improved threat visibility, cyber hygiene and incident response.

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10 things to watch out for with open source gen AI

CIO

A model trained on, say, an archive of flat earth conspiracy theories will be bad at answering science questions, or a model fine-tuned by North Korean hackers might be bad at correctly identifying malware. Nobody has years of experience because the technology is so new. So do open source LLMs release all that information?