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Daily Crunch: After clinching $12.3B valuation, Brex hires Meta exec as chief product officer

TechCrunch

Today we have new venture funds, spyware news, Brex raising (again), and more. Cybersecurity matters to democracy : Spyware built by the infamous NSO Group was “used to spy on three critics of the Polish government,” according to Citizen Lab, TechCrunch reports. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for January 11, 2022! Big Tech Inc.

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What the Cybersecurity Industry Needs to Discuss at the RSA Conference 2020

Palo Alto Networks

New forms of “stalkerware,” a type of spyware, tracks smartphone data from victims to build up a picture of their activities; this can be used to create faked videos, voice recordings or written communications. DevOps speeds up software development but increases security risks. . Emulation and decoy environments must be credible. .

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The State of Security in 2024

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

We had 1,322 complete responses, of which 419 (32%—roughly one-third) are members of a security team. 903 respondents aren’t on a security team, although 19% of that group hold at least one security-related certification. Our goal was to understand the state of security: What challenges do security teams face? That gives us 27.9%

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Forget the Rules, Listen to the Data

Hu's Place - HitachiVantara

Fraud detection software developed in the past have traditionally been based on rules -based models. This traditional approach of using rules or logic statement to query transactions is still used by many banks and payment gateways today and the bad guys are having a field day. This is where DataOps comes into play.

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Why Is It Necessary to Run Cybersecurity Evaluation Exercises?

Altexsoft

It serves as an extensive resource for security researchers, analysts, and incident response teams in evaluating and validating the effectiveness of their respective security defense systems. Another way to evaluate and verify security effectiveness is to use automated penetration testing software or red teaming resources.

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AI Applications in Cybersecurity with Real-Life Examples

Altexsoft

You can classify a binary file into categories like legitimate software, adware, ransomware, and spyware. For instance, you can develop profiles of every application inside your organization’s network by analyzing data from endpoints. Classification involves taking artifacts, and classifying them into one of several labels.

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Pros and Cons of Hiring Freelance Cyber Security Consultant

Mobilunity

If you have an IT team, keep in mind that they don’t always have time to conduct a comprehensive cybersecurity assessment because they are already overwhelmed with day-to-day tasks. Therefore, many businesses hire cybersecurity experts to join their teams and take care of security tasks. Making use of out-of-date software.