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People's Right to Safety must be preserved for the protection of people. There is a strong need for finding the optimal balance between privacy and safety.
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for hackers and online scammers, and cybersecurity pros saw a 63 percent increase in cyber-attacks related to the pandemic, according to a survey by ISSA and ESG. Organizations were fairly prepared for the global pandemic. Most organizations don't believe the pandemic will increase 2020 cybersecurity spending.
Netwrix conducted studies to understand how the pandemic and ensuing work-from-home initiatives has forced organizations to change their IT priorities since a similar survey at the end of 2019. At the end of 2019, data security was the #1 priority and it remains there now, with a whopping 76% of organizations naming it as one of their IT projects for the rest of 2020.
As the IoT data-enabled services continue to expand, the market is approaching the stage of data democratization, where real-time analytics is very sought after. Currently, data integration, real-time stream processing, and analytics services are falling under the umbrella of data management services within the IoT value chain, where each component has also seen economic growth.
Researchers find critical RCE vulnerabilities in industrial VPN solutionsCritical vulnerabilities in several industrial VPN implementations for remotely accessing operational technology networks could allow attackers to overwrite data, execute malicious code or commands, cause a DoS condition, and more. Lack of training, career development, and planning fuel the cybersecurity profession crisisThe cybersecurity skills crisis continues to worsen for the fourth year in a row and has impacted 70 percent of organizations, as revealed in a global study of cybersecurity professionals by ISSA and ESG. Bug in widely used bootloader opens Windows, Linux devices to persistent compromiseA vulnerability in the widely used GRUB2 bootloader opens most Linux and Windows systems in use today to persistent compromise.
President Donald Trump said Friday he will bar fast-growing social media app TikTok from the United States as American authorities have raised concerns the service could be a tool for Chinese intelligence. Speaking to reporters on Air Force One, Trump said: "As far as TikTok is concerned, we're banning them from the United States."
A 17-year-old teen and two other 19 and 22-year-old individuals have reportedly been arrested for being the alleged mastermind behind the recent Twitter hack that simultaneously targeted several high-profile accounts within minutes as part of a massive bitcoin scam. On July 15, Twitter faced the biggest security lapse in its history after an attacker managed to hijack nearly 130 high-profile twitter accounts, including Barack Obama, Kanye West, Joe Biden, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, Uber, and Apple.
The US Department of Justice just issued a press release entitled simply, "Three Individuals Charged for Alleged Roles in Twitter Hack.". In some ways, the Twitter hack referred to, which happened just two weeks ago on 2020-07-15, was tiny.