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Cloud Migration Security Challenges and Mitigation Strategies Businesses are rapidly embracing cloud strategies to take advantage of the technology’s benefits, including cost savings, flexibility, security, mobility, enhanced collaboration, quality control, sustainability, and automatic software updates. Digital transformation is the top reason driving higher cloud usage today, according to 63% of IT experts. Security is the most crucial worry for firms that operate local data centers, according to 66% of respondents....

CVE‐2020‐5962, which was discovered in the NVIDIA GPU display driver, and CVE‐2020‐5963, which exists in the CUDA driver, are among the most serious bugs affecting the GPU drivers. All bear a 7.8 CVSS grade. The first of the problems discovered in the GPU driver’s Control Panel component could allow a local attacker to increase privileges or trigger a denial of service ( DoS) condition. The second bug was found in the Inter Process Communication APIs, and could result in code execution, DoS, or disclosure of information....

Meanwhile, in an age of viruses, malware, hackers, electronic fraud, and global electronic eavesdropping, security is a must. Because of the recent sophistication and frequency of cyberattacks, network administrators use security techniques to secure data on the network from unauthorised access and various dangers. Experts in the field of security have developed advanced cryptography and network security solutions in particular. Recent advancements in cryptography have resulted in more practical and widely available applications for enforcing network security practises and principles....

These data security experts are in short supply, however. According to NASSCOM, India will need 1 million cybersecurity professionals by 2020, and Indeed recorded a 150 percent increase in cybersecurity positions between January 2017 and March 2018. In recent years, firms like KPMG have doubled the size of their cybersecurity teams. India’s Top 5 Cyber Security Jobs in 2021 Although other IT occupations, such as network administrators and software developers, are more popular and well-known, cybersecurity jobs are few but growing in importance....

Massachusetts is best known for Boston, Cape Cod, and Martha’s Vineyard, but the tiny northeastern state has much more economic clout than its small size suggests. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, also known as The Bay State, has by far the largest economy in New England. While its centuries-old and thriving shipping industry contributes to its strength, the state has reinvented its economy many times over the years. It now has vibrant business communities in the fields of technology, finance, healthcare, education, and tourism....

Several significant industries are driving this economic expansion. Utah is a hub for aerospace industry, with roughly 1,000 companies based there. “Fourth in the nation for aerospace manufacturing attractiveness,” according to Utah. According to a recent Wells Fargo analysis, aside from aerospace manufacturing, Utah’s IT business is prospering. “In Utah, which routinely ranks as one of the greatest states to do business, business, labour, and government work well together. Utah also has a strong and rising presence in some of the fastest-growing areas of the tech industry, such as cloud computing, big data, and software development....

The worldwide financial services sector was estimated to be worth $22 trillion in 2019. Non-cash payments have been steadily increasing in this industry. Non-cash payments are growing in popularity as the internet and mobile phones become more widely used in emerging countries, as well as a global shift toward real-time payment mechanisms. Internet banking, smartphone apps, and rapid payments all necessitate the use of new technology. Increased technological use necessarily expands the attack vector for the industry and provides new vulnerabilities....

California San Juan Capistrano, data resolution LLC provides hosting software, business continuity systems, cloud computing and data center services to some 30 000 companies worldwide. The company has not yet answered comment requests. However, according to the status update, Data Resolution shared with affected customers in December. 29, 2018, the attackers broke through a compromised Christmas Eve login account and soon started to infect servers with the Ryuk Ransomware strain....

On the other hand, it might grow into a thriving community with a diverse range of personalities, some of whom may have no qualms about speaking whatever is on their minds. To the dismay of the rest of the community, it may not be as culturally stimulating as one might think. Vulgar language and behavior are nothing new in an online group, particularly in a gaming setting. When dealing with keyboard warriors who believe their anonymity provides them immunity, racial slurs and vile words are practically expected....

Several months ago, bug bounty hunter Masato Kinugawa created an exploit chain leading to RCE and published a weekend blog post explaining the technical specifics of the process, which incorporates several bugs. Electron, the development system used for the Discord desktop client, discovered the first security problem. The JavaScript framework used by Electron — an open source initiative to build cross-platform applications capable of harnessing JavaScript, Markup, and CSS — was saved locally because the web software is not open source, and could be removed and analysed....

Today, it’s estimated that 5 billion people own a mobile device, with over half of them being smartphones. This makes them a huge target for hackers and cybercriminals, especially when you consider the average persons’ lackadaisical stance on mobile device safety. However, there are some practical steps you can take to better protect yourself against the rising likelihood of online attacks… How a VPN can help protect your device For those who aren’t sure what a VPN is, it’s a tool that gives you online privacy and anonymity by creating a virtual tunnel between your device and the VPN server....

CKEditor is a popular WYSIWYG open-source editor that is highly configurable and has hundreds of apps. Drupal uses CKEditor and has agreed to upgrade it to version 4.14, which addresses two cross-site scripting (XSS) bugs impacting older versions of the software. Users are recommended updating Drupal to versions 8.8.4 or 8.7.12. Additionally, future attacks may be prevented by disabling the CKEditor module. Drupal7 is not impacted, but website administrators use this edition will also ensure that CKEditor has been upgraded to version 4....

Taking advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has forced widespread telework acceptance, cyber criminals and threat actors are seeking to manipulate perceived misconfiguration and shortage of remote network control and user privilege surveillance. The FBI says that an observed change in strategy is the targeting of all employee credentials, not just those employees who may have better access and protections depending on their organisational status. Cybercriminals have been shown to use social engineering to threaten both US and foreign workers of major corporations....

Consider recent headlines: massive data breaches, businesses selling personal information, and browsers snooping on your sessions — all of these are examples of emerging security threats that will require a skilled and well-trained workforce to contain and eradicate. Data shows that cyber crime, such as identity theft and fraud, is instilling fear in people of all ages. According to the Ponemon Institute, an independent polling organisation specialising in data and privacy, 61 percent of small and medium-sized companies experienced a data breach in 2017....

MITRE emphasised in designing its ICS ATT&CK matrix that both Business ATT&CK and ICS ATT&CK need to be understood to reliably map threat agent activities through OT events. But just as the historical division between IT and OT can lead to exposure loss between the two, the differentiation of ATT&CK into Company and ICS can also lead to a loss of information on the actions of the intruder. The issue is dependent on what ‘intermediary networks’ are defined by FireEye....

Freepik is a search engine that provides access to high-quality graphics resources for users, including images, vectors, illustrations and the like. Users can find more than 3 million vector icons in different file formats on Flaticon. The attackers, explains Freepik Company, exploited a vulnerability in SQL injection in Flaticon which allowed them to access information about users. “[I]n our forensic study, we found the email was stolen by an attacker and the password hash of the oldest 8....

The hacking group has been operating since 2017 and is known to target corporate and government networks around the world. The hacker group has robbed ‘ source code relating to software development and offerings for sale and network access for more than 300,000 dollars, ‘ according to the new report published by Advanced intelligence LLC. From 2017 and 2018, it promoted a range of data breaches on the dark web markets that it recently developed ‘ a credential-stabilization botnet that could infect high-profile targets to exfect The hacking group has claimed to have hacked three antivirus firms and extracted sensitive source code from antivirus software, AI and security plugins from the companies since April 24, 2019....

Georgia Tech University is located in Atlanta, Georgia. Georgia Tech, formerly known as Georgia School of Technology, is a world-renowned public research institution and Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. Georgia Tech University was founded in 1888 and now comprises six colleges and satellite locations. There are 31 sections in these colleges that provide academic excellence in research, science, and technology. This space-grant university is one among the top ten global schools and top five public universities in the United States for technology and scientific master’s degrees....

GitHub offers its users the management of source code (SCM) and distributed Git version control functionality in the cloud without having to configure their own servers to host Git locally. GitHub also offers team collaboration and access control characteristics such as task management and bug tracking in addition to the standard Git characteristics. However, as the cloud solution, the GitHub platform is sometimes impacted by multiple problems influencing some or all of its characteristics, and directly affects its users ‘ ability to manage their platform-host Git repositories....

Google Public DNS, the product name for the IP addresses 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 of the DNS servers, can now handle the more secure DNS-over-TLS specification. Domain Name System (DNS) is the phone book-like method used to convert domain names to IP addresses. DNS queries have traditionally been susceptible to sniffing and spoofing from anyone on the wire, but wrapping the queries in Transport Layer Security (TLS) can change that somehow....