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White House Launches Cybersecurity Implementation Plan
Image: Maksym Yemelyanov/Adobe Stock U.S. President Biden’s administration this week released the first iteration of the National Cybersecurity Strategy Implementation Plan, which was announced in March 2023. The plan aims to boost public and private cybersecurity resilience, take the fight to threat actors, beef up the defense of infrastructure and draw a clear national roadmap…
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How to Check If Someone Else Accessed Your Google Account
Review your recent Gmail access, browser sign-in history and Google account activity to make sure no one other than you has used your account. Illustration: Andy Wolber/TechRepublic Whenever a computer is out of your direct view and control, there’s always a chance that someone other than you can gain access. A person who returns from…
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Gartner: Due to stress, half of cyber leaders will change jobs, and a quarter will quit the field
Image: Gorodenkoff/Adobe Stock Gartner’s 2023-2024 cybersecurity outlook, which the consultancy presented this week, contains good news and bad. There has been a significant shift from three years ago when chief information security officers were struggling to exert board-level influence. Partly due to emerging technologies such as Web 3.0, conversational artificial intelligence, quantum computing and supply…
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Top Tech Conferences & Events to Add to Your Calendar in 2023
Skip to content TechRepublic Premium on July 13, 2023, 2:22 PM EDT Top Tech Conferences & Events to Add to Your Calendar in 2023 Looking for a list of the top tech conferences and events in 2023? Explore our guide to find out which events you should add to your calendar. Image: Anton Gvozdikov/Adobe Stock…
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Microsoft issues new warning over Chinese cyber espionage
A Chinese-state advanced persistent threat (APT) actor tracked as Storm-0558 hacked into email accounts at multiple government agencies, and was able to lay low for over a month until being discovered and kicked out by Microsoft, it has been revealed. In a disclosure notice published on Tuesday 11 July to coincide with its monthly round…
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One month after MOVEit: New vulnerabilities found as more victims are named
Although much of the initial panic surrounding the late-May breach of Progress Software’s MOVEit file transfer tool has subsided, Clop – the ransomware operation behind the attack – continues to leak victims’ details. Pertinently for security teams on the frontline, Progress itself continues to disclose more vulnerabilities in the product, some of which appear to…
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Hiring Kit: Salesforce Developer
No matter what business your enterprise is in, developing a better, more complete relationship with your customers will always be beneficial to your bottom line. The cloud-based customer relationship management system offered by Salesforce has emerged as one of the more powerful platforms available in this regard. However, to get the most out of the…
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IBM Launches New WatsonX Foundation Models for Enterprise
With the launch of watsonx.ai and watsonx.data, the company is creating a platform approach to an AI workbench, allowing customers to deploy IBM, open-source or their own AI models. Image: MichaelVi/Adobe Stock IBM this week launched an AI platform that gives generative AI customers an option to stay within its ecosystem. Called watsonx, the generative…
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Cozy Bear lures victims with used BMW 5 Series
The Russian intelligence-backed advanced persistent threat (APT) group known variously as APT29, Nobelium or Cozy Bear, arguably most famous for the 2020/1 SolarWinds incident, has been caught trying to ensnare diplomats working in Ukraine with a novel lure – a second-hand BMW 5 Series saloon car being sold by a Polish embassy official. According to new…
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Whistleblower contacts NatWest customers affected by a decade-old data breach
A whistleblower is contacting NatWest customers affected by a data breach which has forced her to store the sensitive information of around 1,600 of the bank’s customers in her home for over a decade. The former administration officer at Royal Bank of Scotland, now part of NatWest Group, had already worked at the bank for…