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2020-12-02 11:00:12 | Telecommunication Service Providers Secure Businesses Using Check Point\'s Comprehensive Portfolio of Security Services (lien direct) | The Telecommunications Industry is undergoing a number of significant changes which are reshaping the market. The demand for more bandwidth and higher throughput keeps growing. Businesses are going through a digital transformation by migrating to the cloud and modifying the way they deploy and use their networks. The significant increase in the number of remote… | |||
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2020-12-01 11:00:52 | The Must See List. A Look at AWS re:Invent 2020 (lien direct) | AWS re:Invent is here, and although this is a change from the usual single week of learning and innovation in Las Vegas, the enriched three weeks of virtual sessions promise to deliver even more benefits!. Check Point is committed to making the next three weeks at AWS re:Invent both exciting and informative-with content and trainings… | |||
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2020-12-01 11:00:02 | Where\'s the package I\'m expecting? Watch out for shipping and delivery-related phishing emails that try to track YOUR details (lien direct) | The CDC (The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) classified “shopping at crowded stores just before, on or after Thanksgiving” on its list of higher-risk activities to avoid, and in its guidance issued ahead of the holiday weekend, it also directly suggested that consumers do more of their shopping online. Not that much encouragement has been needed. During the… | |||
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2020-11-30 10:00:08 | Preventing the Unknown with Static Analysis (lien direct) | This blog provides insights into zero-day unknown threats – what are they, and why is it a challenge to protect against them. Also, it covers Check Point SandBlast Agent's approach, describing the broad aspects it covers – from Anti-Malware towards advanced Static Analysis unique methods. What are zero-day threats? A zero-day vulnerability is a security… | Vulnerability | ||
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2020-11-25 11:00:16 | Check Point Software Revolutionize Its Cyber Security Certification Program (lien direct) | CHECK POINT to launch CCSM ELITE certification, as part of a vast certification update The Check Point Learning & Training department is excited to announce its new cutting edge certification program. The new program is focused on the Check Point Infinity Architecture and promotes learning of emerging technologies and advanced concepts. It also allows certification… | |||
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2020-11-24 11:00:23 | Beware of WAPDropper, the mobile malware that subscribes users to Premium Rate Services (lien direct) | None of us likes to receive a bill that's much larger than we were expecting – especially when we have no knowledge of how the extra costs were incurred. So imagine how you'd feel if you discovered that you'd been signed up to premium-rate phone services without your knowledge or consent. As well as the… | Malware | ||
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2020-11-23 11:00:17 | Microsoft & Google Impersonation Attacks Are on the Rise – How to Stay Safe (lien direct) | Do you feel that your inbox is burdened with an increasing number of phisy-looking emails, now more than ever before? Well, that's because it actually is. According to Check Point Research Q3 Phishing Report, email-based phishing attacks saw the highest increase in number, compared to any other platform in Q2. The most common of these… | |||
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2020-11-20 11:00:46 | Check Point Software Partners with (ISC)² to Further Develop C level executives Key Cyber Security Skills (lien direct) | (ISC)² cyber-security courses and programs will soon be available via Check Point's training portal, helping to address the global shortage of certified, senior level cyber-security professionals Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. has partnered up with (ISC)², the world's largest non-profit association of certified cyber-security professionals to deliver top-notch security certifications to cyber leaders. Reserve your… | Guideline | ||
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2020-11-19 13:49:43 | Who\'s Calling? How to Avoid Being Hooked by Vishing – the New Old-School Phone Scam (lien direct) | FBI and CISA warn against surge in voice phishing campaigns targeting employees working remotely Hackers profile and target employees using information from LinkedIn and other social media platforms to overcome suspicion and appear to be genuine 81% of enterprises have adopted mass remote workingfor their employees, with 74% planning to enable it permanently With remote working set… | |||
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2020-11-18 11:00:39 | Achieving K8 Security @ The Speed & Scale of DevOps (lien direct) | By, Yaffa Finkelstein, Product Marketing How many workloads is your organization running? How are you keeping your cloud native applications – the drivers of your business – secure? Your container environment is enormous and assessing its true scale is virtually impossible. On top of this, you have multiple DevOps teams deploying applications at speed and… | |||
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2020-11-18 00:01:31 | Enhancing Cloud Security Posture for AWS Network Firewall (lien direct) | By, Trisha Paine, Head of Cloud Product Marketing Amazon Web Services (AWS) just announced the availability of the AWS Network Firewall, a managed service that makes it easy to deploy essential network protections for all of your Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs). Check Point helps ensure stringent security controls and requirements are met through the… | |||
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2020-11-17 11:00:50 | Phishing emails double in November in run-up to Black Friday and Cyber Monday (lien direct) | This year has already been a record-breaker in terms of online shopping as a result of Covid-19 related restrictions and concerns, and more records are expected to be set in the run-up to Black Friday and Cyber Monday at the end of this month. During the first 10 days of November, the traditional holiday shopping… | |||
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2020-11-12 16:00:32 | Check Point Software Technologies recognized as Leader in the 2020 Gartner Network Firewall Magic Quadrant (lien direct) | Check Point Software Technologies is proud to be named a Leader in the 2020 Magic Quadrant for Network Firewalls (NFW). This marks the 21st time in the company's history to be named a Leader by Gartner. We believe, Gartner's recently published 2020 Magic Quadrant for Network Firewalls report lauds Check Point for its consolidated architecture,… | Guideline | ||
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2020-11-10 16:25:29 | Check Point CloudGuard integrates with AWS Gateway Load Balancer at Launch (lien direct) | By Jonathan Maresky, CloudGuard Product Marketing Manager, published November 10, 2020 Cloud security is not a trivial practice of “click-and-deploy”, “one-size-fits-all” or even “my cloud vendor is responsible for cloud security”. The shared responsibility model is a critical component of a cloud user’s ability to protect their organization's cloud assets in the long term and… | |||
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2020-11-10 10:00:19 | Check Point Software´s predictions for 2021: Securing the \'next normal\' (lien direct) | “Life is what happens while you're making other plans,” said John Lennon. And the events of 2020 have shown how right he was. If you had looked through the predictions and contingency plans of the world's top 1,000 companies 12 months ago, few (if any) would have included detail on dealing with a global pandemic.… | |||
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2020-11-10 06:00:56 | Critical Vulnerability in Windows OS – Check Point customers remain protected (lien direct) | Only five days after Google disclosed information about a critical vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows operating system (CVE-2020-17087), Check Point has officially released protection to keep its customers completely safe. Early protections against vulnerabilities that are under active attack are crucial. Microsoft is expected to release an update today, November 10, 2020, but Google research… | Vulnerability | ||
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2020-11-09 10:00:51 | New Check Point R81 is Industry\'s First Cyber Security Platform with Autonomous Threat Prevention (lien direct) | By Michael A. Greenberg, Product Marketing Manager, Security Platforms Watch the Webinar Replay Managing cyber security today is complex, there are so many things to take into consideration. Between the systems in place to operate the business, the rapid and constant changing technologies that need to be deployed and the scarcity of cyber experts, the… | Threat | ||
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2020-11-09 10:00:20 | Check Point Presents the First Autonomous Threat Prevention System (lien direct) | How many hours have you or your security admins spent on managing and configuring threat prevention policies? And how long did it take to get conversant enough with the organization's needs in order to make sure these policies are suitable for your environments? The inherent faults and endless hours involved in manually configuring these policies… | Threat | ||
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2020-11-06 10:00:43 | October 2020\'s Most Wanted Malware: Trickbot and Emotet Trojans Are Driving Spike in Ransomware Attacks (lien direct) | Check Point researchers report that Trickbot and Emotet top the Global Threat Index, and are being used for distributing ransomware against hospitals and healthcare providers globally Our latest Global Threat Index for October 2020 has revealed the Trickbot and Emotet trojans continue to rank as the top two most prevalent malware in October, and that… | Threat Ransomware Malware | ||
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2020-11-04 10:00:43 | Infrastructure as Code assessment with Terraform (lien direct) | Security is of utmost importance for any piece of code or infrastructure The traditional security approach was based on a ticketing system to provision a piece of infrastructure. This method worked well in smaller settings where companies managed small infrastructures with minimum turnover. This was true in the case of private data centers managing VMs… | |||
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2020-11-04 10:00:42 | Check Point Software Joins Microsoft OCP FY21 Q1 Winners Circle Program (lien direct) | Check Point is proud to announce that Microsoft has awarded us 'Top Azure P2P IP Co-Sell by an ISV partner' for the Microsoft OCP FY21 Q1 Winners Circle program. This award adds to the growing list of recognition Microsoft has bestowed upon Check Point Software this year, including: Microsoft's #1 World Wide ISV Co-Sell Partner… | |||
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2020-10-29 16:22:31 | Hospitals Targeted in Rising Wave of Ryuk Ransomware Attacks (lien direct) | Healthcare is the most targeted industry, by ransomware, in the US in October October saw a 71% increase in Ransomware attacks against the healthcare sector in the US Ransomware attacks also increased by 33% in APAC and 36% in EMEA Yesterday, the CISA, FBI, and HHS issued a warning against ransomware attacks on U.S. hospitals,… | Ransomware | ||
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2020-10-29 10:00:31 | Don\'t Let Hackers Throw Your Brand Integrity Down the Drain (lien direct) | By Yaelle Harel and Yair Herling, Technical Product Marketing Social Phishing attacks remain the most successful methods used to execute attacks and steal data. Lookalike domains or emails are often used to mislead users to open emails, click a link, and enter their credentials or any other sensitive data. Hackers count on the trust that… | Guideline | ||
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2020-10-28 10:01:31 | Check Point Software Provides Over 1,000,000 eLearning Minutes since the Covid-19 Outbreak (lien direct) | Check Point Software's Learning and Training department's main mission is to make cyber security knowledge accessible to everyone. In just a few months, students and security professionals from all over the world consumed over 1,000,000 free minutes of training, leveraging the wide range of Check Point's eLearning content. The eLearning offering is designed for professionals… | |||
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2020-10-28 10:00:13 | Shipping Logistics Leader IMC Deploys Check Point SandBlast Agent to Safeguard Supply Chain Data (lien direct) | By Amit Sharon, Head of Global Customer Community & Market Intelligence, Check Point IMC Companies provides supply chain expertise to customers across the U.S. I met with David Ulloa, Chief Information Security Officer at IMC Companies, to learn how the organization protects desktop, laptop, and mobile users from malware, phishing, ransomware, and other threats. READ… | |||
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2020-10-27 10:00:43 | Measuring the Global Impact of the NSA\'s Top 25 Vulnerabilities Being Exploited In the Wild (lien direct) | Adi Ikan, Network Research & Protection Group Manager On Tuesday October 20, 2020, the NSA published a detailed report informing the public of the top 25 vulnerabilities currently being leveraged and exploited by Chinese hacking groups. The list is mostly composed of high-profile vulnerabilities, such as SIGRed (CVE-2020-1350), BlueKeep (CVE-2019-0708) and CurveBall (CVE-2020-0601). Furthermore, the list encompasses… | |||
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2020-10-26 10:00:01 | Use Case: Automated Endpoint Detection & Response (lien direct) | By Yaelle Harel, Technical Product Marketing Manager Only 22% of Security and IT professionals strongly believe that their organization is fully ready to respond to a cyber-attack or a data breach. What about you? Unfortunately, no matter how comprehensive your state-of-the-art security solutions are, you really can't assume that you won't get hit with cyber-attack.… | |||
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2020-10-23 10:00:48 | Check Point Software and Splunk Showcase Automated Threat Response at Splunk .conf20 (lien direct) | 20–21 October | AMER 21–22 October | EMEA & APAC Comprehensive security has never been more important than today with the significant increase in remote workers. Sophisticated cyber attacks have increased dramatically since the start of the covid-19 pandemic. These targeted and persistent attacks place high demands on the security staff charged with finding and… | Threat | ||
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2020-10-23 10:00:42 | 5G: Better, Always-on Connectivity Demands Better, Always-on Security (lien direct) | Protecting the new generation of 5G-based applications against advanced cyber-attacks How fast is your Internet connection right now? No matter what speeds you're currently getting, they're just a fraction of the up to 10 gigabits per second promised by 5G. That’s over 100 times faster than 4G on today's mobile phones, and 10x more than… | |||
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2020-10-22 10:00:36 | Enhancing Threat Hunting with MITRE ATT&CK (lien direct) | By Yaelle Hare, Technical Product Marketing Manager Threat Hunting is a proactive approach for finding and remediating undetected cyber-attacks. It is a process that involved searching for indicators of compromise (IoC), investigating, classifying and remediate. The hunting can be IoC-Driven, as demonstrated in the previous chapter. It can also be hypothesis-driven, in which the hunt… | Threat | ||
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2020-10-21 10:00:03 | Cloud-sourcing: Using Global Threat Intelligence to Instantly Protect Your Cloud Assets (lien direct) | By Jonathan Maresky, CloudGuard Product Marketing Manager, published October 21, 2020 When it comes to security in the cloud, companies face constant, daily threats. This situation has only been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. In just 10 of the biggest data breaches in 2020, over 3.2 billion records were exposed, the majority of them from… | Threat | ||
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2020-10-20 10:00:10 | Five Reasons to Reevaluate Your Endpoint Protection (lien direct) | By Oleg Mogilevsky, Product Marketing Manager, Threat Prevention These days, endpoint security plays a major role in maintaining high security posture. However, a study conducted in mid-2020 revealed that 39% of security professionals are not confident in the resilience of their existing endpoint protection solution. On October 28th we'll be hosting David Ulloa, CISO of… | Threat | ||
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2020-10-19 10:00:19 | Microsoft is Most Imitated Brand for Phishing Attempts in Q3 2020 (lien direct) | Check Point Research issues Q3 Brand Phishing Report, highlighting the brands that hackers imitated the most to lure people into giving up personal data Our latest Brand Phishing Report for Q3 2020 revealed the brands which were most frequently imitated by criminals in their attempts to steal individuals' personal information or payment credentials during July,… | |||
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2020-10-19 10:00:01 | (Déjà vu) Cloud Threat Hunting: Attack & Investigation Series- Privilege Escalation via Lambda (lien direct) | Author: Maya Levine, Technical Marketing Engineer Cloud breaches are becoming increasingly prevalent in this modern digital era. One of the more dangerous strategies attackers deploy during a cloud breach is Privilege escalation. They use this to move laterally within a cloud environment and access sensitive assets. This blog, the third of the Cloud Threat Hunting:… | Threat | ||
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2020-10-15 11:00:51 | Paschoalotto gains Scalable Call Center Security with Check Point Software (lien direct) | By Amit Sharon, Head of Global Customer Community & Market Intelligence, Check Point READ MORE > Paschoalotto Financial Services is a leading supplier of call-center and tele-billing services to the Brazilian financial industry. I met with Alan Cosin, Chief Information Officer at Paschoalotto, to learn more about how the firm implemented a flexible security architecture… | Guideline | ||
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2020-10-15 10:00:08 | Notice the unnoticed: Threat Hunting by SandBlast Agent (lien direct) | By Yaelle Harel and Boaz Barzel Threat Hunting is a proactive approach for finding and remediating undetected cyber-attacks. It is a process that involves searching for indicators of compromise (IoC), investigating, classifying, and remediate. Threat hunting can be IoC-Driven, in which the hunter investigates an indicator provided by external or internal sources. It can also… | Threat | ||
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2020-10-14 10:00:03 | As the 2020 US presidential election approaches, cybersecurity risks abound (lien direct) | Election-related domains are 56% more likely to be malicious than other new domains 16% of all election-related domains created in September were malicious 24% increase in new registered election-related domains since mid-August Background The COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact on almost all aspects of our lives, and the 2020 US Presidential Election is no… | |||
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2020-10-14 09:59:59 | Check Point and Ansible Showcase Automated Security Management at AnsibleFest 2020 (lien direct) | Security landscapes and threats are rapidly evolving, driven by the rise of virtualized networks, public and private clouds, SDN, and the Internet of Things (IoT). These demands require advanced threat prevention solutions and next-generation firewalls with intelligent and automated security management. Ansible's integration with Check Point makes it easier to automate enterprise security environments while… | Threat | ||
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2020-10-13 10:00:38 | Secure Your Containers Like Your Apps Depend On It (lien direct) | By, Yaffa Finkelstein, Product Marketing Manager Security professionals are all too aware that their container environments are enormous. Assessing its true scale is virtually impossible. On top of this, there are multiple DevOps teams deploying applications at speed and scale, and if the distributed nature of a containers environment isn't intimidating, figuring out how to… | |||
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2020-10-12 10:00:47 | How to avoid the dangerous wave of ransomware attacks (lien direct) | By Yaelle Harel, Technical Product Marketing Manager The average cost to rectify the impacts of most recent ransomware attacks is US$732,520 for organizations that don't pay the ransom. It rises to US$1,448,458 for organizations that do pay [1]. The top ransomware types in Q3 were Maze and Ryuk. There has been a significant increase in… | Ransomware | ||
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2020-10-12 10:00:42 | How SandBlast Mobile\'s integration with Google Cloud enhances your Mobile Security Posture (lien direct) | By Hagay Sharon, Mobile Solutions Product Manager Mobile Security is no longer optional. The working from home routine, where employees are increasingly accessing corporate data from their smartphones, extends organizations' mobile attack surface and expose them to data breaches more than ever. Managing and securing users, devices, applications and data is a complex task which… | |||
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2020-10-09 10:00:50 | Looking forward to Amazon Prime Day? Be cautious: Hackers are too (lien direct) | Millions of consumers are eagerly anticipating Amazon's annual online shopping extravaganza, Amazon Prime Day. This year, Amazon is offering more than 1 million deals through a 48-hour period which begins on October 13. The annual retail event is one of the many perks included in a Prime subscription and its discounts are exclusively available to… | |||
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2020-10-08 17:03:38 | Enhancing Serverless Security with Check Point CloudGuard and AWS Lambda Extensions (lien direct) | By, Hillel Solow, Serverless Security R&D With no compute, VM, container, or network, serverless computing offers the ultimate reduction in security attack surface. With the recent release of the AWS Lambda Extensions, organizations are closer than ever to heightening visibility and security on deployed servelerless functions. Security is inherently improved with serverless as the attack… | |||
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2020-10-07 10:00:48 | September 2020\'s Most Wanted Malware: New Info-stealing Valak Variant Enters Top 10 Malware List For First Time (lien direct) | Check Point researchers find sharp increase in attacks using new Valak malware, while the Emotet trojan remains in 1st place for third consecutive month Our latest Global Threat Index for September 2020 has revealed that an updated version of Valak malware has entered the Index for the first time, ranking as the 9th most prevalent… | Threat Malware | ||
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2020-10-06 10:00:45 | Global Surges in Ransomware Attacks (lien direct) | In Q3 2020, Check Point Research saw a 50% increase in the daily average of ransomware attacks, compared to the first half of the year Countries with the most number of ransomware attacks in Q3 are US, India, Sri Lanka, Russia and Turkey Top ransomware types in Q3 were Maze and Ryuk Ryuk ransomware now… | Ransomware | ||
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2020-10-05 13:00:46 | Check Point Software and NVIDIA Partner to Secure the Datacenter with Infinity Next (lien direct) | Infinity Next Nano Agent Security integrated with NVIDIA SmartNICs with Bluefield-2 DPUs As enterprises become more distributed with the hybrid cloud, artificial intelligence (AI), edge computing and remote workers, the attack surface for cyber criminals has expanded as well. To keep up with demand while staying secure, enterprises need to accelerate data and security throughput… | |||
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2020-10-02 10:00:53 | Graphology of an Exploit – Fingerprinting exploit authors to help with hunting zero-day exploits in the wild (lien direct) | In the cyber-crime economy, which is all about exploiting vulnerabilities in software and products, the most valuable and prized asset is the 'zero day' – a vulnerability for which there is no patch or update available. Last year, an exploit broker stated it would pay up to $2 million for zero-day jailbreaks of Apple’s iOS… | Vulnerability | ||
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2020-10-01 11:00:38 | A Preview into the Secure Cloud Summit (lien direct) | By, Trisha Paine, Head of Cloud Product Marketing and Programs Cloud adoption was growing at historical rates coming into 2020, and then, in March, cloud adoption accelerated faster than anyone would have thought. Gartner predicted that the worldwide public cloud services market would grow by 17% in 2020, when in fact, cloud providers have experienced… | |||
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2020-09-28 14:00:26 | Cloud Security: 12 Myths vs Facts (lien direct) | By, Gui Alvarenga, Cloud Security Product Marketing As cloud technology expands in both worldwide use and the complexity of offerings, some myths persist. At Check Point, we put our heads together and created the following list of the most common cloud security myths, followed by the conflicting realities. 1. The More Security Tools You Have,… | |||
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2020-09-24 10:00:33 | #InstaHack: how researchers were able to take over the Instagram App using a malicious image (lien direct) | Instagram is one of the most popular social media platforms globally, with over 100+ million photos uploaded every day, and nearly 1 billion monthly active users. Individuals and companies share photos and messages about their lives and products to their followers globally. So imagine what could happen if a hacker was able to completely take… |
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