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Top 10 Best-Known Cybersecurity Incidents and What to Learn from Them

Negligent or malicious behavior by those who have legitimate access to your systems can be more devastating to your company than the efforts of outside attackers. The 2023 Cost of Insider Risk Global Report by the Ponemon Institute shows that cybersecurity incidents caused by insiders through negligence, credential theft, and malicious intent had an average cost per incident of $505,113, $679,621, and $701,500, respectively.

Exciting Announcement: Introducing Agentless Proxmox Backup and Recovery in BDRSuite!

We’re excited to announce the availability Proxmox backup and recovery, designed to meet the evolving needs of businesses utilizing Proxmox VE. With BDRSuite, organizations can now seamlessly integrate robust backup and data protection capabilities into their Proxmox environments, ensuring comprehensive data protection a their virtualized Proxmox infrastructure. In this blog, we’ll delve into the recently launched Proxmox backup solution offered by BDRSuite.

AsyncRAT Exposed: Investigating Email-Driven Cyber Attacks

Introduction AsyncRAT, also known as "Asynchronous Remote Access Trojan," represents a secretive form of malware meticulously crafted to infiltrate computer systems and exfiltrate critical data. Recently, McAfee Labs unveiled a novel avenue through which this insidious threat proliferates, elucidating its inherent peril and adeptness at circumventing security measures.

Wild Wisdom: What Technology Learns from the Natural World

The content of this post is solely the responsibility of the author. LevelBlue does not adopt or endorse any of the views, positions, or information provided by the author in this article. As a high school student interested in exploring the connection between technology and nature, I was curious to find out how the natural world inspires modern technological advances. My research journey started with some basic Google searches and reading through articles on biomimicry.

The dangers of enterprise attack surface expansion: Lessons from 5 major breaches

Enterprise attack surface expansion has become a focal point for IT security teams. The relentless pursuit of securing every endpoint and countering new threats with the latest technology is not just costly; it's also unsustainable. Despite these efforts, breaches continue to occur, often through new or unorthodox attack vectors that bypass traditional perimeter defenses.

The Australia's Data Privacy Report Impacts Business Data Protection | Protegrity

We’re entering an age where technology is quickly surpassing us, with advancements and capabilities outshining any other time in history. As businesses look to evolve with emerging technologies, so do regulatory requirements designed to protect PII used in creating these systems and programs. If the stakes weren’t high enough, the 2024 Australian Data Privacy Act is shifting full data responsibility back onto businesses, holding big enterprises to a more significant standard in their data ownership.

Meta Llama 3, Meta AI, OpenEQA, and More - Monthly AI News - April 2024

Meta Llama 3, the latest iteration of Meta's groundbreaking open-source large language model, marks a significant leap forward in artificial intelligence. Focusing on innovation, scalability, and responsibility, it promises to redefine the landscape of language modeling and foster a thriving ecosystem of AI development.

Business Email Compromise Attacks: How To Prevent & Recover

Imagine receiving a work email from your finance department asking about an overdue invoice. You notice it has a few extra typos and uses strange language, so disregarding it as junk. What you don’t know is that your very busy coworker receives the same email at the same time. Because they’re more distracted than normal, they respond, unknowingly aiding with a business email compromise (BEC) attack.

Trustwave Backs Multinational OT Security Recommendations to Protect Critical Infrastructure

The Canadian, US, and UK governments issued a series of recommendations in their just-released security alert Defending OT Operations Against Ongoing Pro-Russia Hacktivist Activity, which mirror my own insights on the important topic. The alert notes that all three governments are aware of pro-Russia hacktivists targeting and compromising small-scale OT systems in North American and European Water and Wastewater Systems (WWS), Dams, Energy, and Food and Agriculture sectors.