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Protecting Sensitive Patient Information: Cybersecurity in Health Care
The healthcare industry faces unique cybersecurity challenges due to the sensitive nature of patient data. Health providers maintain troves of sensitive health information and personal details, making them a prime target for cybercriminals seeking to steal data or sabotage systems. At the same time, they often have limited resources to invest heavily in cybersecurity, as…
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Ransomware Protection: What Every Small Organization Needs to Know
Consider waking up to discover that all of your organization’s crucial files and data have been encrypted, and the lone approach to getting to them again is paying a ransom to the hacker. This is the risk of ransomware attacks, one that small organizations cannot ignore. With the frequency of attacks increasing, it’s imperative that…
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Google Releases Chatbot Bard to Compete with OpenAI and Microsoft
Google has joined the AI chatbot market with the release of Bard (bard.google.com), a chatbot that will be available to limited users in the US and UK, expanding to other users, countries, and languages over time. Bard is Google’s first public effort to compete with similar chatbot technology from OpenAI and Microsoft, but the company…
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CISA Issues Urgent Warning on Critical Adobe ColdFusion Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has recently added a critical security vulnerability affecting Adobe ColdFusion to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, indicating evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, identified as CVE-2023-26360 (CVSS score: 8.6), enables a threat actor to achieve arbitrary code execution due to an improper access control issue in…
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Understanding the Importance of the CIA Triad in Information Security
In today’s digital age, information security is of utmost importance. Companies and individuals alike need to take measures to safeguard their sensitive data from unauthorized access, modification, and disclosure. That’s where the CIA Triad comes in. CIA stands for Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability, and it is one of the fundamental concepts of information security that…
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Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday Addresses Zero-Day Vulnerabilities and Notable Flaws
Microsoft Addresses Zero-Day Vulnerabilities on March 2023 Patch Tuesday On this March 2023 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has released fixes for 74 CVE-numbered vulnerabilities, including two zero-day flaws (CVE-2023-23397, CVE-2023-24880) that are actively exploited by different threat actors. CVE-2023-23397 Microsoft has identified CVE-2023-23397 as a critical elevation of privilege (EoP) vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook. This vulnerability…
